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Subaru-IMBA Trail Care Crew: Middleton, WI 17-18 August 2012
.Jul 312012.The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew, on the road since 1997, is IMBA’s grassroots educational program and an authority on sustainable trail building practices. Two teams of professional trail experts travel year-round throughout the United States and beyond, leading trail work sessions, meeting with land managers and working with IMBA-affiliated clubs and the communities they serve to improve mountain biking opportunities. The Trail Care Crew program has inspired great volunteer trail work across the U.S. and abroad – a big help to government agencies and land managers who have limited funding for trail construction and upkeep. As a direct result, there are now thousands of new and improved trails in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico and several European countries.

https://www.imba.com/civicrm/event/register?id=239&reset=1

Friday 17 August 2012
10:00AM till 12:00PM
Middleton Airport Conference room Middleton Airport/Morey Field 8300 Airport Road, Middleton WI

Better Living Through Trails-The power of mountain biking to improve your community!

Overview: This presentation explores the positive relationships between communities and their trail systems. Trails as community assets can improve quality of life and livability in a community for both the biking and non-biking members, and can attract significant tourism dollars in addition in increasing overall quality of life. With statistics and case studies, participants will learn how to turn a quality community trail system into a destination trail system, and learn how to effectively market a trail system. This presentation is a great way to show the community that a club is concerned with the health of the local citizens, the health of local green spaces and the health of the local economy.
Key topics: The economic, health and wellness benefits that trails and mountain biking bring to an area; the value of singletrack trails; economics of singletrack trails; building community trails; creating destination trails; case studies.
Logistics: One-hour presentation plus time for questions and discussion afterward.

4:00PM–?
Social Ride – Cam Rock Trails.

http://camrocksport.com/

217 West Main St. Cambridge, WI 53523
Meet at CamRock Sport in Cambridge for a group ride of the trails. This will be followed by brews and gnosh at CamRock Sport.

Saturday 18 August 2012
9:00AM till 12:00PM
Middleton Airport Conference room Middleton AIrport/Morey Field 8300 AIrport Road, Middleton WI

IMBA’s Trail Building School

IMBA’s Trail Building School teaches IMBA’s philosophies and trains local volunteers and land managers on how to build and maintain sustainable singletrack. The school involves three hours in the classroom followed by about four hours in the field doing hands-on trail work and field instruction. ding School. Please note that the crews do not teach mechanized trail building.
Participants are expected to come to both the classroom and field sessions on Saturday. If someone can only come to one, direct him or her towards the classroom session. It can take away from the field session experience if people who didn’t attend the classroom session end up asking a lot of questions about things that were covered.
General outline of the classroom presentation:
Introduction to IMBA
Introduction to the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew Trail building theory
Essential elements of sustainable trails Designing a trail
Constructing the trail
Rerouting and reclaiming trails
Advanced trail construction techniques

12:00PM-1:00PM
Middleton Bike Park/Pleasant View Golf Course Clubhouse Parking area
LUNCH
Grill out lunch provided by CORP and the Pleasant View Golf Course

1:00PM till 4:00PM
Middleton Bike Park/Pleasant View Pump track

Trail Building Project with the Trail Care Crew and William Lorman, CORP MBP Trail Steward
William and the TCC have a special project planned to build an access trail from the parking area to the park.

* Please do not plan to attend the work session if you can’t make it to the morning classroom. Wear pants, closed-toe shoes, a hat, gloves and bring water for the trail project.

4:00PM -
Ride the MBP pump track, jump lines, and single track. (maybe a quick jaunt to BH)

7:00PM-?
Social event at BlackHawk Ski Hill West Chalet. We will be enjoying beer donated by Capital Brewery and burning ‘smores over a fire pit, 7500 Blackhawk Road in Middleton Wisconsin, west of the Pleasant View Golf Course and the Blackhawk subdivision, and across the road from Pope Farm Park.

Hosted by: Capital Off-Road Pathfinders

Let's start a check in on this thread as to who may be coming to the scheduled social events. Are you coming to the social ride on Friday afternoon/evening at CamRockSport?  How about the events Saturday? The trail build school?  The cookout for lunch at PV?  The build session on Saturday afternoon?  How about the social Saturday evening?  Chime in.

I will be there setup through cleanup.

I have words and notes that land managers and policy makers will attend the Friday class, but don't know how much more of the weekend.

To all, please note Nelson's link for sign up on the IMBA site if you have not registered there. COPY and PASTE the link below to register:

https://www.imba.com/civicrm/event/register?id=239&reset=1

i am signed up for saturday classroom, lunch , and trail work.

I'll try to make as much as I can. But I have to shoot photos at Madison International Speedway on Friday @5 and shoot a tractor pull at Sauk Prairie on Sat Night.

Tom Harron
President

planning to attend social ride at CR on Friday afternoon

Saturday night social event now sponsored by Capital Brewery.


Social event at BlackHawk Ski Hill West Chalet. We will be enjoying beer donated by Capital Brewery and burning ‘smores over a fire pit, 7500 Blackhawk Road in Middleton Wisconsin, west of the Pleasant View Golf Course and the Blackhawk subdivision, and across the road from Pope Farm Park.

Note the venue change for Saturday night.

Looking forward to a full day on Friday:

Spend the morning working on future plans and get the political stuff over. We are going to have a great showing of local political and economic development leaders from Cambridge as well as Dane County Parks folks there.

Then the afternoon social ride. Followed by a cold brew or three and dinner on the patio while listening to a free concert at CamRock Sport. That is my idea of a perfect Friday night 8)

Chuck, could possibly get Friday off to attend. Pretty tough though.

Planning to be at the Friday afternoon/evening ride starting at 4p (although the IMBA page says 3p). Maybe a beer or two after...

I will attempt to be at something this weekend, I'll be gone for Subaru Cup most of the weekend though.

It's at 4pm. Trying to keep the typos in check is nearly a full time endeavor.

Dr appts and my work schedule have blown my plans to attend the events on Friday and Saturday. Going to try to drag the wifey to BH though.

I'm signed up for Saturday.

Walt