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Trail Work Day in Crystal Cove State Park on April 20

Posted on April 16, 2013 by sharemtb

Trail Work Day in Crystal Cove State Park

Come celebrate EARTH DAY! SHARE mountain bike club needs your help on Saturday April 20. SHARE will be removing barb wire fencing along popular trails in Crystal Cove State Park. This year, SHARE was a recipient of a grant from REI supporting projects in Orange County. This project is supported by REI’s grant.

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When: Saturday April 20 from 8 am to 1 pm

Where: Crystal Cove State Park.  Meet at Ridge Park at the end of the cul-de-sac.

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What: Remove barbed wire along popular trails in CCSP.

Wear: long pants, long sleeve shirt, and work shoes. We will be working in the brush.

Please RSVP so we have enough tools and equipment for everyone.

RSVP:  SHAREMTB@gmail.com

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SHARE Trail Work Opportunities – February 9

Posted on January 21, 2013 by sharemtb

2013 OC Trail Work Season in Full Swing

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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Santiago Oaks Regional Park – Saturday – February 9

Join SHARE mtb and IMBA on Saturday, February 9th for some much needed trail work in Santiago Oaks Regional Park (SORP) . We will be working on the Chutes Ridgeline and will be meeting at 8:30 am at the SORP Ranger Station where parking is free for volunteers. The parks are beautiful right now and the soil is perfect for maintaining our trails.

Summary

  • Trail Work Day: Santiago Oaks Regional Park
  • What: Chutes Ridgeline
  • Date: Saturday February 9
  • Time: 8:30 am to noon(ish)
  • Location: SORP Ranger Station (parking free)

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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Filed under: Laguna Canyon Foundation, Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, OC Parks, Santiago Oaks, SHARE, Trail Work, Trails, Uncategorized, volunteer | Leave a Comment »

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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National Trails Day Saturday June 2nd

Posted on May 30, 2012 by sharemtb

Trail Work Event!

We have a great event coming up Saturday. SHARE is partnering with the Laguna Canyon Foundation and REI for REI’s National Trails Day event.

What: Trail Work Day
When: Saturday June 2nd @ 8 am to noon
Where: Laguna Coast Wilderness Dilly Parking which is located 1/4 mile north of the 73 freeway on the east side of Laguna Canyon Road. Look for the SHARE trailer!
What: Rehabilitate some trails and remove invasive plants.

Working with REI is always a treat. They provide lunch and then throw in an highly valued REI volunteer shirt. These shirts have become so popular  that some say National Trails day is all about the trails and the REI shirt. There is a different design each year.

For information and Registration click here or call REI Huntington Beach at 714.379.1938. Registration is required through REI.

Thank you and I hope to see you there for some trail work, good food, good company, and of course….the shirt!

         

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Trail Work This Weekend – Buck Gully in Newport Beach

Posted on February 1, 2012 by sharemtb

Work IT! Trail Work Day

Our partners, the Irvine Ranch Conservancy, will be sponsoring an exciting trail work day this weekend Saturday, February 4th at Buck Gully in Newport Beach. 

This project will restore about 3 miles of multi-use single track in this coastal canyon which is full of interesting wildlife and mature coastal sage scrub. When complete, the trail will be open 7 days a week. We need lots of hands for vegetation clearing and possibly some tread work.

Signup and detailed information

Anyone interested in helping out needs to sign up at www.irlandmarks.org (click on the Activities & Programs button and then navigate to the Trail Work at Buck Gully program). We hope you and some friends can make it.

Filed under: Buck Gully, Irvine Ranch Conservancy, SHARE, Trail Work, Trails, Uncategorized, volunteer | Leave a Comment »

Santiago Oaks Regional Park – Trail Work Wrap-up

Posted on January 4, 2012 by sharemtb

SORP Hawk Trail Work on December 3

SHARE organized a trail work event at Santiago Oaks Regional Park. Twelve volunteers were there to give back to the park.

Santiago Oaks Regional Park has become a favorite Orange County destination for many of our local mountain bikers. With this park being the site of the last two SHARE Poker Rides, SHARE was more than happy to provide the people power to help maintain the park when we are asked to help. So it was no surprise with a fairly short notice we were able to pull together a group of volunteers of all ages and abilities to come out and take care of a few projects on the rangers wish lists.

The park rangers had asked us to revise the lower portion of Hawk Trail  where it meets Bobcat Meadow Trail to eliminate the unsafe T-intserction of  the trails. We also completed the planting of native plants and cactus along  the re-routed Oak Trail (aka the 3 B’s). 

The first part of the trail work day was toof complete a reroute at the bottom of the Hawk Trail to make it a more sustainable trail and eliminate an unsafe intersection with the Bobcat Meadow Trail. We found a new path and armored it rocks to build up a base for the new path. The next job was to close off the old trail and move on to some planting, with cactus and new oak trees positioned we dug in and got busy putting them in the ground. Thank you for those who showed to give back.

Afterwards, we enjoyed a well  deserved lunch at Chronic Taco.  Thanks to all who volunteered!

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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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California Coastal Cleanup Day at Trabuco Canyon

Posted on September 13, 2011 by sharemtb

Trail Work Day! Saturday September 17

15th Annual Trails 4 All Inner Coastal Cleanup and California Coastal Cleanup Day at Trabuco Canyon

Join the fun with SHARE Mountain Bike Club and the Warrior’s Society Mountain Bike Club to remove trash in the Trabuco Canyon.

  • Date:  Saturday, September 17, 2011
  • Location:  Trabuco Canyon, meet at Live Oak Canyon Road and Trabuco Creek
  • Time:  8:00am to noon, we are starting early due to the heat
  • Bring: gloves, sturdy shoes and pick up truck.  We will have water.
  • Task:  Remove trash dumped along Trabuco Creek
  • Grub:  Pizza served at noon
  • More info needed?:  Contact SHAREMTB@gmail.com or 949-636-0345

If you are not able to join us in Trabuco Canyon, please consider volunteering at another site.  For other Orange County cleanup sites, please see OC Parks website at:  http://www.ocparks.com/adoptapark/default.asp?Show=CaliforniaCoastalCleanUpDay

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Trail Work on Sweet New Single Track in Irvine

Posted on August 8, 2011 by sharemtb

We Need Your Help!

Trail Work Days on Tuesday August 9 and Saturday August 13.

The Irvine Ranch Conservancy has invited SHARE to participate in the construction of a sweet new single track trail in Bommer Canyon.

 The Turtle Ridge Trail will be 2.1 miles of brand new natural surface trail that will connect the City of Irvine’s Bommer Canyon trail system to Summit Park in the Turtle Ridge neighborhood. The trail will be open for hikers and bikers seven days a week from 7 am to sunset and will offer users incredible views of the San Joaquin Hills and the Santa Ana Mountains.  In order to complete this ambitious project we need your assistance. Please join the IRC on one of the dates below:

Registration Required

Tuesday August 9 at 8:30 am at the Bommer Canyon Trail Head. For this event, please preregister at http://www.irlandmarks.org/activities/sign-up.aspx?id=8015 so we know how many people to plan for.

Saturday August 13 at 8:30 am at the Bommer Canyon Trail Head. Please preregister at http://www.irlandmarks.org/activities/sign-up.aspx?id=8016 so we know how many people to plan for.

Tools and snacks will be provided, but please bring your own sun protection, work gloves and sturdy shoes or boots.

If you have questions, please Email us at: sharemtb@gmail.com

Thank you for your support!

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