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| Classroom portion of IMBA Trail Building School at the Lucy Simms Center |
Harrisonburg hosted a successful IMBA Trail Care Crew visit this past weekend. Steven and Morgan Lommele came to the Burg and brought with them over two years of accumulated knowledge from traveling around the country and working with a broad spectrum of mountain bike clubs. The first night was a Club Care presentation at Clementine, Friday involved a Trails and Tourism presentation in the City Council Chambers, and Saturday capped it all off with a their classic Trail Building School at Lucy Simms and Massanutten. We know that we learned a bunch from Steve and Morgan but it was exciting to read their recap of the weekend and have them term to SVBC “role models”. We were able to start work on the next Massanutten trail build (to be continued after the Hoo-Ha) and with over 25 volunteers building trail we were able to work through one of the more difficult ravine sections of the build.
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| Steve and Morgan of the IMBA Trail Care Crew. Steve wore his tall socks because he was in the Burg! |
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.
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| Benching in another new trail at Massanutten. |
