The city of Lakewood has established a muddy trail education program at Green Mountain. It includes signs at each trailhead ranking the trails as "red - very muddy", "yellow - muddy, not recommended", and "green - normal conditions". We change the arrows on the signs as conditions change. We have a twitter feed for this program, and other Green Mountain information, and we are trying to get the word out to more people. The twitter feed is @HaydenGreenMtn. Information for Bear Creek and Green Mountain is also posted on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BearCreekLakePark.
We pushed our luck in April when we completed Blackjack, but it looks like mother nature got us this time. We are canceling this Saturday's Sandy Wash trail day. Not sure if we'll be able to re-schedule before spring, but stay tuned. Thanks to all who registered for this event and to everyone who helped out throughout the year. We'll be back in full force in 2012.
If you still want to play in the dirt, the Golden Bike Park maintenance day is still on! Join us at the GBP this Saturday from 9-12. More details here:
COMBA, in cooperation with the USFS, is holding a trail work day on Saturday, November 5th to do
maintenance on Sandy Wash trail in the Bu alo Creek Recreation Area. A post work BBQ and night
ride are part of the gig too!
How To Get There: From the intersection of C-470 and US Highway 285 (Hampden Ave.), take 285 south
approximately 20 miles to Pine Junction. Turn left at the tra c light onto Cty. Rd. 126. Take 126 south
about 10 miles to the town of Bu alo Ck. Turn right onto USFS Rd. 543 at the Bu alo Creek Community
Center. The staging area is about 1.5 miles west on 543. There is limited parking at the staging area so
please park in the lot past the Community Center and either ride your bike or hike to the staging area.
See map.
After a successful volunteer workday in September, the US Forest Service has asked us back to Buffalo Creek to perform maintenance of the much loved and much ridden Sandy Wash Trail in Buffalo Creek. With all the wheels, boots, and early season rain, Sandy Wash is in serious need of some trail love. Join us on Saturday, November 5th for an afternoon of trail maintenance, followed by food, drinks and a night ride!
Yes, with Fall here and the days getting shorter it is time for a night ride. Watch COMBA.org for more details.
The Colorado Mountain Bike Association is hosting our final Buffalo Creek volunteer day Saturday September 17th. COMBA's volunteers will be celebrating another great season of riding, building and maintaining trails with free food and beer following a morning of trail maintenance on the great trails in Buffalo Creek.
Please join us in giving back to the trails we love while earning deep discounts on outdoor gear through industry insider site ProMotive. Register at the link below to help us plan for the event:
http://www.comba.org/content/buffalo-creek-registration
The event will start at 8:30 AM at the Miller Gulch trailhead south of Bailey, CO.
For more information:
Take a Kid Mountain Biking registration is now closed. We have reached our maximum numbers of registrants. Please email TKMBD@COMBA.org to get on the wait list.
COMBA and Trips for Kids are teaming up again this year to put on Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day on Saturday, October 1st from 9-1 at Bear Creek Lake Park and registration is now live! We anticipate that this event will fill up quickly, so click here to register now. Email TKMBD@Comba.org for more info.
COMBA and Trips for Kids are teaming up again to put on Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day on Saturday, October 1st and we’re looking for volunteers for all aspects of the event. The event for volunteers will start at 8am with a mandatory volunteer briefing and we hope to wrap up around 1pm.
Please email me if you are able to help and include if you would prefer to help as a ride leader, camp host, course marshal or food preparer extraordinaire during the ride part of the event.
Save the date: Saturday Aug 20th is the next Buffalo Creek trail workday. In August we will be putting crews on both Charlies Cut-off and Blackjack. As always after work food and beer will be provided. Don't forget about the new volunteer rewards program – volunteers accumulating 20 hours of volunteer service this year on any COMBA project will be rewarded with access to ProMotive.com where products hundreds of outdoor manufacturers can be purchased at pro-deal prices.
We had a successfuly weekend in July -- fully signing the Blackjack and Raspberry Ridge, opening a green line around the feature "Split" and closing down some unauthorized go-arounds. We did not have enough volunteers to begin work on "The Strip" so come out in August to help us open this new line and give some love to sections of Charlies Cut-Off
Please RSVP at: http://www.comba.org/content/buffalo-creek-registration
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