CMBA would like to extend congratulations to UROC for the opening of their Hoots-designed mountain bike skills park.  While the official opening ceremony is Oct. 13, you can go ride the park now.  Trail work has exploded in the Crowsnest Pass area in the last couple of years, and UROC is leading the charge.  Nice work!  I can't wait to get down there and sample the trails...

 The fixes on R2 [Ridgeback, section 2] are proceeding.  We're berming corners:

Our first ever Sunday trail day went off on one of Calgary's hottest days of the year! With gorgeous weather and lots of trail needing love and attention, 25+ volunteers took part in one of our best trail days ever. A reroute around a major muddy section on Ridgeback is now complete thanks to their hard working and dedicated effort.  Expect to see the muddy section closed very soon.

Special thanks goes out to the Calgary Outdoor Club for supplying many of the day's volunteers, with a special thanks to COC's Michelle for doing all the BBQing and wrangling up a set of BBQ tongs at the last second.

Jose Quiroz was on hand to shoot a bunch of photos (below).

We hope to see people at our next volunteer trail event this coming Monday evening, July 25th, in Fish Creek.  Details will be posted soon!

Our early morning safety talk before heading out onto the trails.

Just a FYI on what we're doing with Ridgeback these days.  As the Moose Mountain area is full of seeps and an apparently high water table [they don't call it Sulphur Springs for nothing], soggy spots appear on the trail that don't always come up when we do the initial build.  In some cases we can reroute the trail, but that's not always practical or possible.  In the case of R4 [the northernmost section of Ridgeback], we are blessed with an abundance of rock to fill in some gushy sections of trail.  Using rock is a common practice on trails around the world, but isn't used that often in the Calgary area.