TNT

No not that kind of TNT! Thursday Night Trailworks. TNT's start this Thursday at Spring Valley. TNT's will be held on random Thursdays as leaders are available, starting at 6PM. This weeks TNT will meet at Spring Valley Crossroads lot and will head on over to Teakettle to work on the final section.

Teakettle Update - Trailwork 5-17-09

For this trailwork we had 8 dedicated members show up to work on Teakettle some more. They were able to finish off one section and start on another, bringing the trail that much closer to being ready to open. Thanks to Dan Walko, Susan Moury, Jody Coeyman, Skip Durgin, Paul Yeager, Lindsay Tobias, Larry Schlaline, and Dan Bowers. Also a special thanks to Gung Ho Bikes for donating another box of power bars to help fuel our volunteers.

Special Thanks

First to Scott Ramsay and Joel Dore for clearing out a mess of downed trees on the Goat Trail at The Lakes back in the middle of April. These trees had completely blocked one of the switchback sections and they did a great job opening it back up. They also blocked off a braid coming onto the trail from a nearby private property.

Second to Dick Mansberger who put in over 6 hours of work this past weekend at Spring Valley. Dick finished off benching and tamping the section of Teakettle that we were working on at the last trailwork.

Thanks guys!

Teakettle update pt. 2

On Saturday May 2, nine YAMBA members joined up at Spring Valley for the first morning workday of the year. They were able to put in extra time due to the early start and blazed their way down the hillside. Thanks to:

Dan Bowers, Susan Moury, Alyssa Mease, William Weismantel, Sherry and Dave Hahn, Markus Houser and Dick Mansberger.

Teakettle Update part 1

On April 19th, eight dedicated individuals met at Spring Valley to extend Teakettle over the ridgeline and down the hill. There was a new face in the group that joined us from the Our Gang riding club in Maryland even. Thanks to the following for putting in a hard afternoon of work:

Linda Reider, Susan Moury, Dan Walko, Dan Bowers, Jody Coeyman, Marcus Houser, Skip Durgin, and Dick Mansberger.

Tea Kettle Trail

Today was the second workday on Tea Kettle at Spring Valley County Park. Tea Kettle will eventually run from Line Rd, near the bridge over the creek, to the current Trail 1 near Ridge Rd. Tea Kettle can currently be found by climbing Trail 1 from the trailhead at Line Rd and Park St.

Dick Mansberger, Alyssa Mease, Larry Schlaline, Lindsay Tobias, and Susan Moury joined me in extending last weeks work further up the hill to the ridge line. We were able to get a lot of work completed considering the small size of our crew. Thanks for coming out guys and gals.

Dick and Larry did an awesome job with the rock work on the hi/low section

The gang working on the bench cut