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The third Missouri Gravel Grinder event of the yearly winter gravel series took place near St. James, Missouri just south of Meramec Springs State Park. To everyone’s surprise, over 70 riders made the trek from all over the state to attend the Joe Dirt ride on Sunday, January 15, 2012.

Three weeks ago a simple post was placed on the GORC site from Jim Davis who was cross-linking a blog post from Team Virtus. Until that post, I had not heard of this adventure race team. Turns out Bob Jenkins was part of this crew and he had thrown the idea of a Berryman Social Ride into the wind – then it took flight.

Another busy year for GORC. With 19 official workdays, not to mention some impromptu ones, as well as a lot of unpublicized individual efforts, it’s hard to keep track of everything. Here’s a summary what went on this year, and I’ll try to point out the plans for each of the trails in the coming year.

As you know, winter can be tough in the Midwest. Whereas, if you are currently living in Crested Butte you pretty much figure it out in about a week that you aren’t going to be mountain biking as the snow gets deeper and deeper, here in the middle (North/South) middle (East/West) midwest the weather can play tricks on the outdoor-oriented adventurers.

Our GORC family lost a cycling brother on Tuesday December 20th.  While Bob Taylor made the most of the past […]

Tom Erb designed Spartacus several years ago to help with much of the rockwork at Klondike, but since we’ve been using it quite a bit as of late, I thought I’d mention it again.  This is a very clever device, made out of chains arranged in concentric circles, that lets you move heavy objects, usually rocks, when you don’t have the luxury of bringing in heavy equipment.

Wow, a big Thank You! to everyone who showed up at our SIUE workday this past weekend. Forty-nine (49!) people showed up and we completed the new section of trail…yes completed. It was a total of 0.3 miles of trail, while not a lot, it is still something.

Lisa and I were headed down to my Grandpa’s for Thanksgiving in Vienna, MO and towed our bikes along for a 30 mile gravel ride put together by Dan Fuhrman of Route 66 Bicycles. The ride was on Black Friday and the weather couldn’t have been any more mild for late November.

Some features may or may not make it in the first generation of the new site but I’m trying with the help of Rob B. to make it happen.

A lot of the work GORC performs goes unnoticed – and that’s a good thing. From downed trees to drainage issues, the club keeps tabs of the area trails every time riders hit the dirt.