All things IMBA Canada, ON
One of the main jobs I have as the Ontario IMBA rep is to keep watch on the Ontario Provincial Park System for mountain biking use. With all the trail building this year it has been difficult to do as well a job on this as I’d like to, but I’ve finally managed to read [...]
The TRCA is starting the process to refresh the management plan for the GMWW complex of properties. In preparation for this they are collecting user surveys. The are doing this so they can better understand the interest and needs of trail users so they can make more informed decisions. IMBA Canada encourages all its members [...]
This just in from the City of Toronto.
New Intermediate Single Trail in Crothers Woods Now Open
Parks, Forestry and Recreation’s Sustainable Trails Initiative is pleased to announce that a second section of multi-use intermediate single trail in Crothers Woods, near the Loblaws trailhead, is now open. In total, 990m of new sustainable trail have been built with 1137m of [...]
James Brown, IMBA’s BC Rep has been working on finding affordable and sensible insurance for Canadian mountain bike clubs. He’s got a post up on his blog about the details.
In the middle of September the City of Toronto will play host to an IMBA Trail Care Crew. We haven’t had a Crew visit since 2006 when Nat and Rachel came to Albion Hills. Our crew will be Kelly and Collins. I chatted with Kelly at length about the situation in the City and she [...]
People might be able to buy some of the arguments that I made in my last post, but they want it to happen quickly, overnight, or at least in this season. They complain that it is taking too much time, progress is stagnating, or getting bogged down in red tape. I too would like to [...]