Subaru-IMBA Trail Care Crew: Carbondale, IL

This is not a GORC-sponsored event but we feel it's a great way for our area trail builders to freshen up their skills, learn new techniques and meet other like-minded mountain bike trail enthusiasts before our first trail build of the fall 2015 season! Many GORC people have attended a Trail Care Crew session when they were held at Berryman and Klondike years ago.

Our friends at the Shawnee Mountain Bike Association (SMBA) are good people and we want to support their efforts to bring more riding options to our region.

The location is TBD so be sure to RSVP with IMBA/SMBA to get the final location details.

Here's the information they have provided:

Dates: Sept. 10-13, 2015

Hosted by: Shawnee Mountain Bike Association

Contact: Shawn Moore

Saturday, Sept. 12

IMBA Trail Building School

• Classroom 9 a.m. - noon @ location TBD
• Lunch provided
• Trail work 1 p.m. - 4/5 p.m. @ Cedar Lake Trail

All events are free of charge thanks to generous support from Subaru of America.

* You MUST attend the morning classroom session to participate in the field project. Wear pants, closed-toe shoes, a hat, gloves and bring water for the trail project.

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. The Trail Care Crew program has inspired great volunteer trail work across the U.S. and abroad - a big help to government agencies and land managers who have limited funding for trail construction and upkeep. As a direct result, there are now thousands of new and improved trails in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico and several European countries.

Full Details at IMBA: https://www.imba.com/civicrm/event/info?id=556&reset=1