Check out the Coalition’s page here: https://svbcbike.org/GCG

Join us for a giving day event that gives you the opportunity to sponsor and donate to your favorite local nonprofits. Great Community Give – A community wide giving day for local partner nonprofit organizations, April 17, 2024 from 6:00am to 8:00pm. All online donations this day will be through www.greatcommunitygive.org and/or given directly via cash and check gifts. All donations are tax-deductible. Help make Harrisonburg and Rockingham County’s biggest day of giving successful.

Spring is springin’, and vernal ventures are calling our names. This will be a fem-focused trail run as we emerge from winter! (Details below)
Time: 5:30p-7p
Dates: 3.27-4.17
Location: Western Slope
Route: CYOA with 3 mi “petal” loops (details at end)
Purpose: Soak up the golden light, meet new runners (GOAL: life-long run buds), familiarize yourself with trails, and let the company of others and the greening forest reinvigorate ya 🌸

Been wanting to get out running but want pals?
Never been trail running?
Get out all the time and want to meet others?
First time? Seasoned? Come, come!

So, Womxn of the Western Slope, see ya out there.

🌱 Specifically, this is a welcoming space for women new to the trails, BIPOC, nonbinary, and trans women.
*IF anyone is eager to lead at a hiking pace, we’d love to get a lead on this!* send us a message.
We will meet by the parking lot and loop back in 3-mile increments.

Route: https://bit.ly/ws-spring-run
Loop 1: Boundary – Pond – Creekside
Loop 2: Homestead – RWB
Loop 3: Happy Hour – Quarantine – Blooming Laurel

Please ensure this waiver is complete:https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/53c551ad46e77/web/

What: Join us for a panel discussion with trail planning professionals from Applied Trails Research, updating us on their assessment of Western Slope trails and exploring how to apply community goals to local terrain.
Where: Dinner and Drinks at Broad Porch Coffee Roasters at Court Square, Harrisonburg (this will be a “private” event at Broad Porch for the Coalition, of course, anyone is welcome to join!)

When: Thursday, April 18th. Dinner/Hang @ 6pm, Panel @ 7p.

Why: Excellent trail design requires harmonizing community feedback, landowner goals, and local topography. As the final week of on-the-ground trails assessment nears completion, join us for a sneak peek on how professionals are integrating goals, desires, topography, and existing trail designs into their trail planning efforts. Come be part of the trail planning process and hear why we’re excited about the future of the Western Slope trails.

Preview of Questions We’ll Discuss:

• What are strategies for applying community feedback to future trail design?
• Where is there potential for major new routes?
• Will there ever be an intermediate trail to the top? And what would that require?
• What does Western Slope terrain imply for the location and creation of beginner trails?
• Can navigating trail names and intersections get easier?
• What is the purpose and use of alterative lines?
• When will the new trails plan be released?
• How can I stay up to date or get more involved?

Continue to learn more about the survey results informing strategies here: https://svbcoalition.org/2024/01/23/western-slope-trails-planning-process/

https://svbcoalition.org/ride/womens-monday-mountain-bike-ride/

Join us for a women’s casual mountain bike ride at Massanutten Western Slope on Monday evenings. You do not need a parking pass (if you don’t have a pass just ask a ride leader for one when you arrive) but will need to sign an electronic waiver before the ride.

💥Time: 5:30pm on Mondays
💥When: Starting April 1st 2024
💥Location: Meet at Massanutten Western Slope Parking Lot
💥Pace: Super casual, no-drop ride. Beginner pace with frequent stops as needed
💥Length: Typically 1-1.5 hours and we will often cover 4-6 miles.
💥Ride Surface: This is a mountain bike ride so plan for dirt singletrack trails with some rock.
💥Regroup Points During Ride? Yes. The Massanutten Western Slope Trails offer lots of options for regrouping and course changes depending on where and what the group wants to ride.

The Big Dig Day is a volunteer trail-building event on the Western Slope of Massanutten. Volunteers will work together to build new trails and or maintain existing trails.

This is more than a volunteer day! It will be a fun, family-friendly day in the woods with friends old and new! Bonus… you can earn your annual Western Slope trail pass volunteer hours in a single day!

Prior trail building experience is NOT necessary. On-site training and instruction will be provided so volunteers can work safely, confidently, and effectively.

• What: A celebration of our volunteers while we highlight our trail improvements on the Western Slope
• Where: Massanutten’s Western Slope near Keezletown
• When: Saturday, April 27
• Register here: https://tally.so/r/mYWllv

Please choose one of two shifts: 11am-2pm or the 2-5pm shift, or if possible, join us for the entire event and take advantage of the whole experience, including food, drink, and festivities.

Lunch, dinner, and adult beverages will be provided for all participants. Lunch will be DIY sandwiches and sides, packed up and taken out to the project site(s). Once the workday is done, we will gather back at ground zero for dinner. Plan on food from Hank’s BBQ, hand-cut boardwalk-style french fries from Just Fries, beer from Elkton Brewing, and cider/hard seltzers.

RSVPs ARE REQUIRED. Please sign up so we can plan effectively. Once you’ve signed up, you will receive email notifications with details about the day, including where we will meet. We need a headcount for food/drink and to give you some thank-you gifts.

https://svbcoalition.org/ride/womens-monday-mountain-bike-ride/

Join us for a women’s casual mountain bike ride at Massanutten Western Slope on Monday evenings. You do not need a parking pass (if you don’t have a pass just ask a ride leader for one when you arrive) but will need to sign an electronic waiver before the ride.

💥Time: 5:30pm on Mondays
💥When: Starting April 1st 2024
💥Location: Meet at Massanutten Western Slope Parking Lot
💥Pace: Super casual, no-drop ride. Beginner pace with frequent stops as needed
💥Length: Typically 1-1.5 hours and we will often cover 4-6 miles.
💥Ride Surface: This is a mountain bike ride so plan for dirt singletrack trails with some rock.
💥Regroup Points During Ride? Yes. The Massanutten Western Slope Trails offer lots of options for regrouping and course changes depending on where and what the group wants to ride.

Join us and Livable Harrisonburg at Pale Fire Brewing for an event with Strong Towns Founder Chuck MarohHousing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.

This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. This presentation introduces a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. These insights will help local communities fight back against the current affordability housing crisis, and opt out of the boom and bust cycles that have typified housing in postwar America.

This presentation offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term renters. Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.

After this one-hour presentation, you’ll walk away understanding:
– How the tension between housing as an investment and housing as shelter impacts where and how we live.
– How financial innovations in the Great Depression stabilized the housing market, and how those tools were repurposed after World War II to rapidly expand America’s cities.
– How a series of housing price bubbles and banking crises have financialized the housing market, transforming homeowners from the customer purchasing a home to the product supporting a mortgage.
– How regulations designed to facilitate the rapid growth of cities end up stagnating neighborhoods and creating artificial housing shortages.
– Why making it easier for more people to borrow more money is not a solution to housing affordability and, in fact, has only made housing less broadly attainable.
– The huge difference between a goal of making affordable housing and a goal of making housing affordable.
Where cities can effectively intervene to make their housing market more locally responsive, broadly increasing affordability without participating in the boom and bust cycle of the broader housing market.

This is not a SVBCoalition event – it will be hosted at the Western Slope, with proceeds benefiting the organization.

Register Here: https://vamomentum.com/perfect-day-50k/

Date: May 4, 2024 at 8:00am
Location: Massanutten Western Slope, Keezletown, VA
Preregistration Prices:

• Until February 14: $99/person
• February 15-May 3: $109/person

Important Information:

• Limited to 200 participants

How It Works:

• 8am-6pm: Run a 5K on the hour every hour for 10 hours. Individual and team options!
• The Course: a 5K trail loop with a shared start/finish line. Participants must be ready at the start line at the top of every hour.
• Individuals: Can you complete all ten loops?! Run all 50K for the most bragging rights of the day. Awards are based on cumulative time.
• Teams: Are you endurance race curious? Or trail running curious? Both? This is a welcoming event for YOU!
• Teams of 2: may either alternate 5K’s or have one person do five hours in a row then the other person do the next five hours in a row. Each teammate must complete five loops.
• Teams of 3: you decide how to divide up loops. Each teammate must complete at least three loops.
• Timing: All loops are chip timed. Results will be based on total cumulative time.
• Time cutoff: participants must be able to finish each 5K loop in under 57 minutes. Anyone who does not meet the time cut off each hour will not be permitted to continue.
• Basecamp: The Perfect Day 50K hangout spot & party zone! Participants will park their vehicles in the grassy area next to the start/finish line for refueling between loops. You’re welcome to bring tents, coolers, camping grills, and pets must be on a leash. We’ll have music playing and spectators are encouraged to bring their energy to Basecamp to support runners. Spectators will be asked to park in the main Western Slopes gravel parking lot adjacent to the start/finish line.
• Black Sheep Coffee will have FREE coffee for participants all day long.
• Swag: Every participant receives a premium moisture wicking race shirt, custom finisher medal and stocked drinks & snacks at Basecamp.
• Charity Partner: A portion of each registration goes to Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition. SVBC volunteers are responsible for the building and maintenance of the trail system at Massanutten Western Slopes and we couldn’t do this without them.

https://svbcoalition.org/ride/womens-monday-mountain-bike-ride/

Join us for a women’s casual mountain bike ride at Massanutten Western Slope on Monday evenings. You do not need a parking pass (if you don’t have a pass just ask a ride leader for one when you arrive) but will need to sign an electronic waiver before the ride.

💥Time: 5:30pm on Mondays
💥When: Starting April 1st 2024
💥Location: Meet at Massanutten Western Slope Parking Lot
💥Pace: Super casual, no-drop ride. Beginner pace with frequent stops as needed
💥Length: Typically 1-1.5 hours and we will often cover 4-6 miles.
💥Ride Surface: This is a mountain bike ride so plan for dirt singletrack trails with some rock.
💥Regroup Points During Ride? Yes. The Massanutten Western Slope Trails offer lots of options for regrouping and course changes depending on where and what the group wants to ride.

https://svbcoalition.org/ride/womens-monday-mountain-bike-ride/

Join us for a women’s casual mountain bike ride at Massanutten Western Slope on Monday evenings. You do not need a parking pass (if you don’t have a pass just ask a ride leader for one when you arrive) but will need to sign an electronic waiver before the ride.

💥Time: 5:30pm on Mondays
💥When: Starting April 1st 2024
💥Location: Meet at Massanutten Western Slope Parking Lot
💥Pace: Super casual, no-drop ride. Beginner pace with frequent stops as needed
💥Length: Typically 1-1.5 hours and we will often cover 4-6 miles.
💥Ride Surface: This is a mountain bike ride so plan for dirt singletrack trails with some rock.
💥Regroup Points During Ride? Yes. The Massanutten Western Slope Trails offer lots of options for regrouping and course changes depending on where and what the group wants to ride.

• WHY: To HONOR those who have been injured or killed while riding bicycles on our public roads, to RAISE AWARENESS that we are people, and to value our personal safety. Although cyclists have a legal right to use the road along with motorists, the motoring public often isn’t aware of these rights and is sometimes not aware of the cyclists themselves. This is a FREE ride, but you are REQUIRED to sign a Waiver: Click to Sign.
• WHAT: For the Ride of Silence, cyclists will take to the roads in a silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways. The ride is FREE and will go no more than 12 miles per hour.
• WHEN: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM
• WHERE: Harrisonburg’s Ride of Silence begins and ends at the University Commons on the Eastern Mennonite University campus.
• Questions? Marshall Hammond is the event organizer. Contact him with questions:

https://svbcoalition.org/ride/womens-monday-mountain-bike-ride/

Join us for a women’s casual mountain bike ride at Massanutten Western Slope on Monday evenings. You do not need a parking pass (if you don’t have a pass just ask a ride leader for one when you arrive) but will need to sign an electronic waiver before the ride.

💥Time: 5:30pm on Mondays
💥When: Starting April 1st 2024
💥Location: Meet at Massanutten Western Slope Parking Lot
💥Pace: Super casual, no-drop ride. Beginner pace with frequent stops as needed
💥Length: Typically 1-1.5 hours and we will often cover 4-6 miles.
💥Ride Surface: This is a mountain bike ride so plan for dirt singletrack trails with some rock.
💥Regroup Points During Ride? Yes. The Massanutten Western Slope Trails offer lots of options for regrouping and course changes depending on where and what the group wants to ride.

https://svbcoalition.org/ride/womens-monday-mountain-bike-ride/

Join us for a women’s casual mountain bike ride at Massanutten Western Slope on Monday evenings. You do not need a parking pass (if you don’t have a pass just ask a ride leader for one when you arrive) but will need to sign an electronic waiver before the ride.

💥Time: 5:30pm on Mondays
💥When: Starting April 1st 2024
💥Location: Meet at Massanutten Western Slope Parking Lot
💥Pace: Super casual, no-drop ride. Beginner pace with frequent stops as needed
💥Length: Typically 1-1.5 hours and we will often cover 4-6 miles.
💥Ride Surface: This is a mountain bike ride so plan for dirt singletrack trails with some rock.
💥Regroup Points During Ride? Yes. The Massanutten Western Slope Trails offer lots of options for regrouping and course changes depending on where and what the group wants to ride.