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Being a more complicated poll to explain, I’ve added a description here so you can be more informed. The club has been approached to join forces with IMBA and integrate into their membership system. IMBA is pushing a Chapter program. Basically, all the membership would go through IMBA and we the club would receive 40% of the fees people pay to IMBA. All independent fund raising would still be 100% ours.

This Saturday, Nov 20th at 9am is the first workday in Rock Hollow. We will construct one of the difficult creek crossings on the east side of the hollow, to demonstrate our skills, and to provide a model for the PTBA bidders that will eventually build the trail.

Lisa and I decided, at the last minute, to check out the 2010 Cranksgiving ride last weekend. I’d heard about the charity ride a couple of years ago but never got around to actually participating. It’s pretty cool to say the least. Cranksgiving is an organized ride approximately 24 miles in length, is a loop on commonly ridden roads – think Dogfish training ride, and stops by five supermarkets.

Well, it was 5 years in the making, but it’s finally here! The official GORC map for Cliff Cave County Park. This can serve as another example of how someone who wants a trail somewhere decides that they’re going to do what it takes to make it happen. There was no map, because there was no one with such an interest in Cliff Cave until recently. Enjoy the trails.

Momentum Cycles now stocks water bottles with the ultra exclusive GORC logo emblazoned on them. Proceed at once to your local Momentum shop and pick up one, two or a dozen. Momentum has graciously offered to share $1 from the sale of each water bottle with GORC. So, you get to stay hydrated, Momentum get’s your business and GORC get’s your money to help build trail! Supplies are limited, so don’t delay.

These statements are all true. They have been for 20+ years. While I do not want to write a small book on the trail I will, however, explain the benefits of having the Berryman Loop within 120 miles of your front door. The Berryman Trail is a loop of singletrack in the Mark Twain National Forest that serves hikers, equestrians and within the last 30 years, mountain bikers. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corp – CCC for short – which was instituted shortly after the Great Depression.

Lisa and I (Matt) decided to check out the Brown County Break Down after riding there multiple times and reading about the event. So on a whim we signed up and checked it out. Here’s a quick pictorial of the event. There aren’t many photos because the trails are too fun to slow down and snap pics…

Get ready for the annual GORC Volunteer Appreciation party on October 30th! This year it will be held at Cliff Cave park following a much-needed workday. Cliff Cave offers a wealth of geological curiosities and oddities throughout the park that can be explored while on your mountain bike. Sinkholes, caves, bluffs overlooking the Mississippi, haunted demon hollows and car wreckage.

We’re going to do some maintenance work on the Eagle Valley singletrack, and try to complete one of the two switchbacks on the DeClue extension. Don’t know where the singletrack is on Eagle Valley? Come and help out this Saturday, and you can find out. If we can get the trail in good enough shape this fall, we can start working on a connector from the current end of the DeClue singletrack at Scenic Loop Rd.

Big Jim Mac and I seized a weekday opportunity to beat the crowds on the OT Curtois section earlier this week. The impromptu “plan” was to explore south from Berryman base camp down to Hazel Creek camp (if possible) for an out n’ back trip of about 26 or 27 miles…