The wooden stunts that dot the trails of Vancouver’s North Shore are most frequently built from western redcedar (Thuja plicata). An evergreen coniferous tree, and the official tree of British Columbia, redcedar can live for over a 1000 years. The oldest redcedar in...
The snow has finally receded and digging season is in full swing! The Trail Academy kicked of the season with the first Foundations Academy on March 1st. Graduates tackled repairs along a short section of Bridle Path. An old rotten ladder bridge that had become...
It’s a line all too familiar to many trail associations… “Why’d you change it, the old one was way better!” To paraphrase Heraclitus, the only thing constant with trails is change. Between wind & rain, foot traffic & wheel traffic, trail maintenance is never...
For all of the hero dirt we enjoyed in January, in February the forest turned white under a blanket of snow and the frozen ground made trail work more challenging. Pat, NSMBA Trail Crew Lead, hasn’t let that deter him from transforming Empress Bypass at the base...
As we head into 2019 with a full schedule of Trail Academies and Shore Corps dates set for the Spring, here’s a quick look at what we accomplished in 2018: a 40% increase in Race Face Shore Corps graduates, the addition of a new Academy course on Trail Design...
