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Laguna Coast Wilderness Park Trail Work – Saturday March 30th @ 8 am

Posted on March 3, 2013 by sharemtb

2013 OC Trail Work Season in Full Swing

The weather is perfect and Spring wild flowers are starting to bloom. Please join OC Parks and IMBA/SHARE Mountain Bike Club for Trail Work in Orange County. We will be completing much needed trail work in our local Orange County parks.

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Laguna  Coast Wilderness Park – Saturday – March 30

Join us on Saturday, March 9th for some much needed trail work in Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. We will be working on Old Emerald and Old Emerald Falls (BVD) doing some brushing and tread work. We will be meeting at 8:00 am at the Big Bend Parking Area (parking free for volunteers) on Laguna Canyon Road (see link below).

Bring: Sturdy shoes, hat and water, we will supply the tools. We will hike or ride up to the trail work location.
We should be done by 12:00 noon in time for you to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
We do need you to RSVP so we know make sure we have enough tools and equipment for everyone, so please let us know if you are coming.

Summary

  • Trail Work Day: Laguna Coast Wilderness Park
  • What: Old Emerald and Old Emerald Falls (BVD)
  • Date: Saturday March 30
  • Time: 8:00 am to noon(ish)
  • Location: Big Bend Parking Area (parking free for volunteers) on Laguna Canyon Road (see link above)
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Please RSVP: SHAREMTB@gmail.com

Special Benefit for Being a Trail Work Volunteer

Don’t  forget our volunteers get this special offer for helping out.

At DirtBaggies, they understand great trails don’t maintain  themselves. Please come and invest some sweat equity in the land. DirtBaggies will reward your involvement by offering a 20% discount ($50 value) on their wonderfully comfortable, hyper-ventilated, made in SoCal, made for SoCal, baggy-bib MTB shorts.

Dirtbaggies Info

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2013 SHARE/IMBA Poker Ride @ Santiago Oaks Regional Park – May 18

Posted on February 17, 2013 by sharemtb

2013 SHARE/IMBA Poker Ride @ SORP

Join SHARE in celebrating our club’s 25th year and  celebrating our first year of being Orange County’s IMBA chapter mountain bike club. The 2013 SHARE/IMBA Poker Ride is on May 18th @ 8 am in Santiago Oaks Regional Park. Ride is $25 for all participants. Post ride lunch and beverages is $10 (free for SHARE/IMBA members). Registration now open! Click link below.

Register Here

2013 Poker Ride

Be Part of the Fun!

Ride Hard, Get Dirty, Win Prizes, and Meet New Friends!

The SHARE Mountain Bike Poker Ride is a very fun event that has been run annually for over 15 years. The event raises critically needed money sponsoring trail work and wilderness restoration projects throughout Orange County. There will be a great post ride raffle, lunch and a wide selection of fine beverages from our sponsor New Belgium Brewing Company!

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Registration

If you haven’t renewed your IMBA/SHARE membership yet, this is a great time to do it. IMBA/SHARE members get the post ride lunch and beverages for free!

Ride is $25 of all participants. Lunch is $10 (includes two beverages). Pre-register on-line at Active.com (No day of event registration). Register at: http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=2088237

Again, lunch is FREE for Members. Late Fee $5 after May 12.

Volunteers Needed

We do need volunteers to make this a success, if you would like to help please let us know. Email us at Sharemtb@gmail.com

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Trail Work Day – Santiago Oaks Regional Park – Sunday Dec. 16

Posted on December 12, 2012 by sharemtb

Trail Work Day in Santiago Oaks Regional Park this Sunday

It is trail work time in Orange County – time to get dirty and have fun. We have an opportunity this weekend to complete habitat restoration along the fine trails in Santiago Oaks Regional Park. 

  • Date:  Sunday, December 16
  • Time:  8:30 – 12:00
  • Where:  Meet at Park HQ, 2145 N. Windes Drive, Orange
  • What:  Native Planting along trails to restore habitat
  • Bring: Sturdy shoes, work gloves, hat, snacks and water.

Please feel free to ride to the work site or ride after the project. You may want to explore the fine trails in Santiago Oaks Regional Park.

Free parking at the park HQ.  Tell them you are there for the trail work.

Please RSVP to SHAREmtb@gmail.com

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IMBA and SHARE have joined forces in Orange County

Posted on October 19, 2012 by sharemtb

SHARE is now the official International Mountain Bike Association Charter Club in Orange County. IMBA and SHARE have joined forces to promote mountain biking in Orange County. IMBA Chapter Program features joint memberships that allow individuals to join IMBA and SHARE with single membership. Since 1988, IMBA has been bringing out the best in mountain biking by encouraging low-impact riding, volunteer trail work participation, cooperation among different trail user groups, grassroots advocacy and innovative trail management solutions.

Join IMBA / Join SHARE

Great benefits from both clubs!

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2012 IMBA Take a Kid Mountain Biking – join the fun!

Posted on October 5, 2012 by sharemtb

Join SHARE members for the 2012 IMBA Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day this Saturday.

This event grows every year. last year we have over 80 kids attend. There are rides for every level of rider… from training wheels to an advanced mountain bike ride featuring single track. After the rides there is a BBQ and tons of prizes for the kids. This is a premier mountain bike event in Orange County.

Signup Here

Where: Irvine Regional Park – Group Parking Lot #2
When: Saturday, October 6 at 9 am
Why: Introduce the younger ones to the fun of MTB, have fun and a lot of neat prizes.
Cost: free
Sign-up: https://takeakidmtbdayoc.webconnex.com/signup2012

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IMBA Trail Care Crew Event – Success!

Posted on January 3, 2012 by sharemtb

Subaru/International Mountain Bike Association

Trail Care Crew Event on Dec. 9 and Dec. 10 – Wrapup

Thanks to the International Mountain Bike Association, and especially IMBA trail care crew Morgan and Steve Lommele,  for bringing together the various Orange County mountain bike communities and land managers for two days of discussion and learning.

As part of the recent Trail Care Crew visit to Laguna Beach, IMBA partnered with Hans Rey, the Laguna Canyon Foundation, Share and other area riders to assess many of the existing legacy trails and provide feedback on how to make the trails more sustainable while at times maintaining their gravity-oriented character. After our Trailbuilding School, local riders expressed their desire to work with land managers to decommission some of their unsustainable fall-line trails and create fun, flowy, sustainable singletrack as part of a larger system of multi-use, multi-skill trails. This two-way partnership between land managers and riders is critical to success.

IMBA hosted a Club Care presentation and a screening of the movie Pedal Driven that brought together local bike industry leaders from Crank Brothers and SDG Components; pro mountain bikers like Hans Rey, Brian Lopes, and Richie Schley; club leaders from Share; and leadership from the Laguna Canyon Foundation.

Just the fact that these guys all broke bread together was enough to get the movement started.

Here is what IMBA had to say about the state of Mountain Biking in OC. “From the 70 TCC visits we’ve had in two years, Laguna is probably the best-suited to build a world-class mountain bike destination: stunning terrain and scenery, open space, industry leaders, pro riders, a sustainable club, willing partners in local land managers, and a passionate community of mountain bike advocates. It’s just a matter of channeling all of that positive opportunity into a cohesive, long-term movement, which Laguna is on the verge of doing.”

 

Morgan presenting trail work design training.

Steve and Morgan, See you later!  Thanks for a great time.

 

Thanks to Hans Rey, Crank Brothers, and the Laguna Canyon Foundation for hosting a productive and fun weekend.

 

 

Filed under: Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, IMBA, Partner, Trail Work, Trails, volunteer | Leave a Comment »

IMBA Trail Care Crew Event – December 9 and 10

Posted on December 7, 2011 by sharemtb

Subaru/International Mountain Bike Association

Trail Care Crew Event

Friday Dec. 9 @ 5:30 pm and Saturday Dec. 10 @ 9 am

Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park Trailers

Join the IMBA Trail Care Crew, Laguna Canyon Foundation, Hans Rey, Crank Brothers, OC Parks and Share for this extraordinary trail work training and work session. In addition, sounds like Hans will also be sharing Flow Country trail design philosophy.  This is really a fantastic opportunity to be inspired to learn “sustainable” trail building. This event will be a great opportunity to bring all of Orange County’s mountain bikers together to meet and to better understand the possibilities and limitations in our local parks.

Friday, December 9, 2011

5:30 PM – IMBA Club Care Presentation

7:00 PM – Crank Brothers and Hans Rey present Pedal-Driven (Advanced Screening)

Saturday, December 10, 2011

9:00 AM – Trail Learn and Build

1:00 PM – Trail Work in Aliso and Wood Canyon Wilderness Park

Information and Signup at:

http://lagunacanyon.org/

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Further Information at:

https://www.imba.com/civicrm/event/info?id=181&reset=1

Hosted By: Laguna Canyon Foundation, Crank Brothers, and Hans Rey

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Another Successful “Take A Kid MTB’ing” Day

Posted on November 14, 2011 by sharemtb

Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day in Orange County

Over 80 kids rode in the event! With 140+ participants take on the 5th Annual IMBA event

Well if you weren’t there on October 1st you missed the biggest event of the 5 years that SHARE member Adam Davidson has been putting this local event of the national IMBA Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day. With over 140 participants of which 80 were kids there was no shortage of fun to be had. The event was broken up in 4 rides so there was something available for all age groups and riding abilities. Adam does a great job of finding sponsors to support the event and gathers enough donations so almost nobody goes home empty handed. There was another organization to benefit from all of Adam’s effort, Wheels4Life.org will be receiving a donation that will allow them to purchase at least 20 bikes for their cause. If you missed it this year you can mark down October 6th, 2012 for next years event.

Check out pictures of this year’s event and sign-up for next year’s event at: http://web.me.com/highergroundsa/RideLikeAKid/Home.html

Enjoy the video clip of this years event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4463wzFJ-WE

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Got Grom? 5th Annual IMBA Take a Kid Mountain Biking

Posted on September 30, 2011 by sharemtb

Reminder – IMBA Take a Kid Mountain Biking

This Saturday is the 5th Annual OC Kids Bike, BBQ and Fun. Totally fun event!

This is an truly amazing event that according to IMBA, last year was celebrated globally in Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States with an estimated 21,000+ participants joining the fun.  This year will also mark the 5th year we are planning a local event in Orange County which continues to grow…last year we had over 100 peeps with 50+ kids!!!  We start off with varied MTB rides based on age & skill followed by a BBQ and free kids raffle.  While the primary goal to install a love of dirt with the groms, it should be no surprise the mad fun the parents have riding along and the kids providing more “smiles per mile” than any weekend epic ride could offer.

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Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew in Kirkwood, CA

Posted on October 13, 2010 by sharemtb

IMBA will be in Kirkwood, CA (not far from Lake Tahoe) on Oct. 16 and 17. You’re invited to join the IMBA Trail Building School on Saturday and a group ride on Sunday. Steve and Morgan Lommele of the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew are teaming up with the Kirkwood Mountain Resort Bike Park Crew for a weekend dedicated to creating sustainable trails and having fun.

This is your opportunity to rub shoulders with the IMBA Crew while learning all about trail building. Check out the details below and come join in the fun!

Schedule

Saturday, October 16

9 AM – noon: Classroom portion of the IMBA Trail Building School at Kirkwood Mountain Resort

Noon – 1 PM: Lunch (provided)

1 PM – 4 PM: Trail Building School field session

Work day followed up by a BBQ at Red Cliffs Day Lodge put on by the Kirkwood Bike Park Crew.

Sunday, October 17

Please join the crew on a group ride! (Options discussed Saturday)

Please register and find a map online. For additional information, send an email to Ricky Newberry.

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