The first records are coming out of the Avalanche Trail at Taylor Randahl Memorial Trails. July was the first month we started counting. In all, 853 laps were recorded on the 3.0 mile Avalanche Trail. The trend is going up. Below is a graph showing user time trends. Stay tuned soon for August counts.

Join us on Saturday, August 28th at 9:30am, as we host SORBA Chattanooga on an intermediate to advanced level group ride on all of the trails at Blankets Creek.  Be in the parking lot and ready to ride at 9:30am.  Extra parking is available in the church parking lot adjacent to Blankets Creek, so please do not block the parking lot entrance.  Bring lots of water and a lawn chair to hang out afterwards. 

We need your help to get the Avalanche Trail completed, so please join us this Saturday from 8am to noon at Rope Mill Park. Lunch will be provided for volunteers.  The more volunteers we get, the faster you will have new trails to ride.  Meet in the parking lot at Rope Mill at 8am.  Wear closed toe shoes and long pants and bring lots of water and an epi pen if you are allergic to bees.  Directions to Rope Mill can be found below.  We hope to see you there.   

Directions to Olde Rope Mill Park:

From I-575 Going North
Take Exit 8 (Towne Lake Parkway Exit)
Turn right off Interstate onto Towne Lake Parkway
At first light make a left onto Woodstock Parkway
At next light – make a left onto Ridgewalk Parkway
Make first right (just before bridge) onto Old Rope Mill Road
This road dead ends into the park.

From I-575 Going South
Take Exit 8 (Towne Lake Parkway Exit)
Turn left onto Towne Lake Parkway
At second light – make a left onto Woodstock Parkway
At next light – make a left onto Ridgewalk Parkway
Make first right (just before bridge) onto Old Rope Mill Road
This road dead ends into the park.

Our August Chapter meeting will be held this Monday, Aug 9th @ 7pm. The meeting will be held at the kiosk at Blankets Creek. Free Flite Bicycles will be providing free food.

Come hear the latest in MTBing news from SORBA Woodstock.

Do you want more trails?  We do and we need volunteers to make it happen.  Please attend a trail building party at Olde Rope Mill Park on Saturday, July 17th, from 8am to noon.  Lunch will be provided for volunteers.  The more volunteers we get, the faster you will have new trails to ride.  Meet in the parking lot at Rope Mill at 8am.  Wear closed toe shoes and long pants and bring lots of water and an epi pen if you are allergic to bees.  Directions to Rope Mill can be found below.  We hope to see you there.   

Directions to Olde Rope Mill Park:

From I-575 Going North
Take Exit 8 (Towne Lake Parkway Exit)
Turn right off Interstate onto Towne Lake Parkway
At first light make a left onto Woodstock Parkway
At next light – make a left onto Ridgewalk Parkway
Make first right (just before bridge) onto Old Rope Mill Road
This road dead ends into the park.

From I-575 Going South
Take Exit 8 (Towne Lake Parkway Exit)
Turn left onto Towne Lake Parkway
At second light – make a left onto Woodstock Parkway
At next light – make a left onto Ridgewalk Parkway
Make first right (just before bridge) onto Old Rope Mill Road
This road dead ends into the park.

Thanks to the persistent passion of our Rope Mill Trail Director - Charlie Shultz, we now have 4 miles open on the first loop - The Avalanche Trail. With the 40+ hour weekly work schedule of both IMBA Trail Solutions and SORBA Pro-Trails,  they have together powered out another 3 miles of machine cut trail at a jaw-dropping rate. Not only machine cut, but groomed into a great ridable condition.

So come check them out! We need the tire tracks to create the line and concrete the path. It also gives you a good preview of the trail - designed to be a race course. Intersections are temporary flagged to avoid getting lost.

Also, as Malanda said in the previous post, we need an army of folks (like 70 people) on the work party on July 17th to backcut and clean up. If that many folks show, we could have the entire 6.5 mile trail open by the end of July!

Come show your support for more trails on the I-575 corridor!

Jay Wilkes

Pres - SORBA Woodstock