We believe that biking should be fun. We believe that change can be playful.
Together we are reclaiming our streets, trails, and public places for current and future generations of walkers and riders.
We believe that biking should be fun. We believe that change can be playful.
Together we are reclaiming our streets, trails, and public places for current and future generations of walkers and riders.
April
17apr5:30 pm7:30 pmSpring Gals Group Trail Run
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
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/
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April 17, 2024 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
18apr6:00 pm10:00 pmWestern Slope Round Up: Dialing in Goals and Strategies for Trail Design
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
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:
Continue to learn more about the survey results informing strategies here: https://svbcoalition.org/2024/01/23/western-slope-trails-planning-process/
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April 18, 2024 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Broad Porch Coffee and Cafe
22apr5:30 pm7:00 pmWomen's Monday Mountain Bike 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
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.
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April 22, 2024 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
27apr11:00 am5:00 pmThe Big Dig Day at Massanutten Western Slope
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
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.
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.
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April 27, 2024 11:00 am - 5:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
29apr5:30 pm7:00 pmWomen's Monday Mountain Bike 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
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.
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April 29, 2024 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
30apr1:00 pm3:00 pmEscaping the Housing Trap with Charles Marohn, Strong Towns
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
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.
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April 30, 2024 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Pale Fire Brewing Co.
May
04may8:00 am6:00 pmPerfect Day 50K by VA Momentum
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
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:
Important Information:
How It Works:
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May 4, 2024 8:00 am - 6:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
06may5:30 pm7:00 pmWomen's Monday Mountain Bike 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
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.
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May 6, 2024 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
13may5:30 pm7:00 pmWomen's Monday Mountain Bike 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
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.
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May 13, 2024 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
15may7:00 pm8:30 pmRide of Silence
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.
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May 15, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
University Commons
20may5:30 pm7:00 pmWomen's Monday Mountain Bike 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
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.
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May 20, 2024 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope
27may5:30 pm7:00 pmWomen's Monday Mountain Bike 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
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.
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May 27, 2024 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Western Slope