When: 9AM for everyone. Come earlier if you can help supervise.
Where: Blue Mound State Park. Drive west from Madison on 18-151. The next exit after Mount Horeb is for the town of Blue Mounds. Take that one and follow the brown signs to get to the park. Tell the friendly person at the park entrance you are volunteering to work on the bike trails, and they will give you a day pass to park for free. Take the first right and park in the swimming pool parking lot.
What's happening: We will be doing repairs to the beginner section of the trail. Depending on how many people show up, we will split up into 2 or 3 work crews and walk to one of 3 places between the trail head and Chert Dip. We will mostly be digging out black mud and over-filling with gravel. It's hard work, but your efforts will result in a more wet resistant trail.
What to bring: Gloves, a snack, water, boots (if you have 'em). A shovel. (We have lots of dirt scraping tools, but not so many shovels).
The schedule will be to work from 9 to 1:30. We will have a lunch of brats and beer afterward at the shelter on the top of the mound. A BIG thanks to Ale Asylum for their generous donation!
I'm not planning any work after lunch. Sunday is the rain or optional work day. Unfortunately due to the unusually wet spring it's highly unlikely the trails will be open to ride this coming weekend.
Walt
