Borderland Trail Care - Sunday, April 13 8:30

[Rich]

We'll be having a Trek Trail Care series event this Sunday, April 13th at Borderland State park.

Meet: Borderland State Park, Visitors center main lot, 8:30 - 9:00. Work lasting till about 1.
Directions: http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/borderland/directions.htm

What to bring: water, work boots, gloves, bug spray

Lunch will be provided.

By attending you'll be eligible to win a new Trek Fuel X 8 or a Trek Top Fuel 69er

REI will be there to support us and give out some swag.

We also be raffling off a really awesome tent courtesy of our good friends at EMS



Bring your bike - maybe you'll be up for a ride afterwards.

Hope to see you there.

Rich

[chqm8]

I'm in.

Will this be a 'rain or shine' event? Or will it be cancelled/rescheduled if it rains?

I only ask because the forecast for the weekend looks grim.

[Rich]

heavy rain will cancel. We will post on the forum if we do.

thanks.

[skunkty14]

Count me in, was thinking of riding Boulderland this coming weekend anyway. Hopefully weather will hold out like it did for the Wompy maintenance day last Sunday.

[chqm8]

I'm probably going to ride there tomorrow during the day.

The weather this weekend looks terrible (hopefully it changes) and I am in need of a mental health day, so i'm blowing off work to ride.

[DVRider]

Sweet looks like just passing showers for Sunday. I'll be there.

[DVRider]

Here are some photo's from the Trail Maintenance today:


Rich taking a picture of the group with not 1, not 2, but 4 maybe 5 different cameras. We probably could have completed a transatlantic tunnel in the time it took to take a group photo.
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After the TM, a nice big ride went off.

We had some nice sponsors today REI, EMS, and Target all provided either product or volunteers for the trail day. EMS donating a nice tent that Steve B won. Someone(*cough* SilverTurtle *cough*) was hurtfull and stated that Steve would need the tent shortly as he's getting married in a couple months. Here are the EMS guys riding a nice long rock climb at the "beginning" of the NEMBA Trail.
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Jack of Hale Reservation fame also joined us today, here he is on the same clime a little further up.
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The next photo session was also on the NEMBA trail in a little ravine like section.

Here is CP with Peanut Gallery in the background
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Susan, Chqm8, Quofan climb up one side:
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[DVRider]

Rich with that commonly seen "I'm lost" look after the same climb.
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At the top of the rock there was a little Traffic Jam as the two ride groups merged.
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Brad,Skunkty14,Steve b and.... Roll back down
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Then the ride headed over to the Ridge Trail:
Here is Rich on a tough technical climb
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And Finally, before I hiked back to my car, CrocketJr with a Nice Huck.
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[splat]

Nice Pics Dave , did you personally ride at all ?

would have joined you but I had Prior commitiemt of being a Tour guide for some Stupid Fast Canadians around Otis

[C.P.]

I just wanted to thank everyone again, for all their help in the trail work today.
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A big thanks goes to REI, EMS & Target (a new sponsor) for their support.
A big turnout (an estimated 25 volunteers) was broken into three separate project groups.
Rich Higgins took a group up onto NEMBA trail & worked on a challenging rocky technical feature/section we've been aiming to add to the trail. If all goes well we should have this completed by the end of this year.
I took a group up to the Granite Hills trail, and worked on a bridge project, including rock transitions on each end. There are some completed project photos here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam30k/sets/72157604522587657/), (photo credits to Adams James of Target).
Gino Delguercio took a small group up to Granite Hills/Quarry Loop and cut back "face slappers". We all met back at the visitor center for pizza provided by SEMASS NEMBA and a BIG group of us went for a ride...

THANKS AGAIN

C.P.

[Mongoose]

Sweet, a pic of me not falling! Although I wish my endo + army roll got on film. Today was a great day everyone!

[chqm8]

I had a blast.

Good company...good pizza...good ride.

In some circles though it was what is known as a 'full body beating.' Between moving a couple of mountains of Borderland's finest rocks and then riding....I am one hurtin pup right now.

Even my hair hurts!

Great time though. I hope to make it to some more of these events.

Thanks for the pics.

[Rich]

Thanks to everyone who came out today and DR thanks for your photos. You get around pretty fast on your feet. Even though the pic I took 6 times has already been posted, I'm going to post it again.

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This is a pic from the NEMBA trail. The incredible Nam hard rock boys showed us how it's done..Dave, I hope your ankle is not permanently like that now.....

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