Learn some trail-riding basics to get you started with ZERO pressure!
Saturday May 3rd at 10:00 AM at Big River, West Greenwich
1 hour format, helmets and blaze orange vest required…
Directions: Exit 6 / Rt. 3 from 95
Parking lot at top of Burnt Saw Mill Road, just South of Exit, Exit 6 on 95 - West Greenwich
For more information contact:
jashoard@cox.net or lmmellow@cox.net
Our good friends at the AMC have asked for our help in a trail project in Arcadia, on Saturday, April 26th.
It is a bridge building project, but we don’t need any tools and they will have all the materials ready.
We are going to meet at the BROWNING MILL POND PARKING LOT AT 8:30 a.m. If anyone wants to ride up with me, I can pick people up. Good idea to bring snacks, hydration and a pair of work gloves.
This is one of at least two projects we will help them with this year, and I am actually pretty happy that they have sought us out as allies for trail work.
Feel free to email me or Jim Grimley (rimud@cox.net) for more details/directions.
Hope you can make it.
-Lennon
For the last week the ACI prisoners filled two dumpsters at the transfer station cleaning Hopkins, Division and Rt 3. They are still working out there another week. That was great so we didn’t have to walk the roads.
100 volunteers signed in (that means we likely had 120 total). We filled 8 dumpsters! Roughly half were mtbkers. Three full of tires and two with just steel. Our Arcadia vp Jim G headed a group that cleaned sites way down Burnt Saw Mill….. removed old shed, trash from the remains of the houses then went deep to tackle two old dumps in the woods. Our Nemba rep Matt H took a group to three old sites off rt 3. Bob Z’s (who lives in the house across from the cemetery on HH) crew worked two large tire dumps on Division and Hopkins. Yet another group with headed by Jonathan (our web master) took Jeeps and a flat bed and pulled the hulk of the old jeep out of the “wall” trial, removed the car hulk next to the Coaster trail and the tire dump deep in the woods off Cardi Road headed to the Saw Mill cuttings piles. Dan N (head of the WG Conservation Commission) along with Nicole (who choose the cleanup as her high school senior project) cleaned sites way west on Rt 3. Two troops of Cub Scouts worked the Sand Pit and I hear filled two pickup trucks.
At noon about half the volunteers meet up at Big River Inn for burgers, dogs and a raffle.
thanks again for all of your effort…
(here’s a gallery from the last two years
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaltschnee.)
huffin & puffin pete
note to mtbkers: Likely some will get lost in on there regular rides because trash landmarks are gone (may need to put some signs up to say “there was a blue barrel here”!
Annual Big River cleanup April 19th at 8:30 at the exit 6a Park & Ride off rt 95 in West Greenwich.
Please consider volunteering! It is a great opportunity for the mountain biking community to show its support & love for this fantastic ridding spot. Our good turnout each year helps build a positive relationship with the community and the Water Resources Board. Last year there were over 100 voluteers with about half from the ri-nemba. We filled 8 or more dumpsters.
Families are welcome and there are some areas where young children can be helpful.
Be sure to sign in as an RI Nemba member!
Some useful things to bring:
good work gloves (although we will be giving out free ones thicker ones can be better)
bring your pickup truck if you have one (throwing a tarp in the bed probably is a good idea too)
a few sledge hammers and crow bars will help disassemble some small buildings we’re taking down
a few rakes for cleaning up around the two house sites
Free lunch at Big River Inn at noon. Raffle with great prizes of all kinds. Free Clean Up t-shirts!
hope very much to see you there
huffin & puffin pete
April 18th to August 29th, Fridays, Lincoln Woods Ride Series
April 19, Saturday, Big River Cleanup
April 27th, Sunday, Arcadia Trail Work Party
May 3rd, Saturday, Beginner Skills Clinic, Big River
May 18th, Sunday, Arcadia Fun Ride, Browning Mill Pond
June 1st, Sunday, First Ride of the Arcadia Ride Series
June 15th, Sunday, Arcadia Ride Series
June 20th, Sunday, Arcadia Ride Series
July 13th, Sunday, Arcadia Ride Series
July 20th, Sunday, Burlingame Trail Work Party
July 27th, Sunday, Arcadia Ride Series
August 10th, Sunday, Arcadia Ride Series
August 24th, Sunday, Arcadia Ride Series
September 7th, Sunday, Arcadia Ride Series
September 21st, Sunday, Arcadia Fun Ride, Beach Pond
October 4th, Saturday, Take A Kid Mountain Biking
remember check out this web page for details on each event and last minute changes
Brendan