Brief clipping from the article Monty Morris posted below. Please read, it is full of great substance, and what could be accomplished from reading this could be monumental. Trails are being developed across this great state of Alabama, and we need folks like the ones in this article to come forward and help out. Every time I finish riding a trail like that, it gets me thinking: If most of us mountain bikers invested as much time improving our trails as we did shopping for that next upgrade or tweaking our suspension or obsessing over the latest trend in wheel size, all of us would have great trails to ride. I don’t want to get too touchy feely and all kumbaya on you here, but what if each of us committed ourselves to spending one solid weekend this year improving our trails? It’s still early in the season. Many of the Mother Theresa trail crew types are really just starting to crank it up in most corners of the country. Now is the time to get out there and help them out. Volunteer. Do some digging at the local dirt jumps. Improve the drainage on that one section of trail that’s always a boggy mess. Help transform that shitty climbing turn into a proper switchback. Here’s my proposal: Let’s stop obsessing about gear for a couple months and let’s focus on what’s truly important—our trails.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:02:32 +0000
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