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...
Please join us on April 1st at 7pm when the NSMBA will be presenting at the District of North Vancouver Municipal Hall (355 Queens Road, North Vancouver) in order to provide an overview of the NSMBA to the new Councillors and Mayor and to express how integral trails...
Fromme and Seymour are still thawing but the trail crew have managed to continue work on the aMTB Loop and Empress Bypass is almost completely revitalised. Take a look at some of the work that’s going on here: https://nsmba.ca/amtb-trail-project/ Since Winter is...
Over the past two years, it has been an absolute pleasure working with the mountain bike community in my role as the Executive Director of the NSMBA. During this time we have seen incredible growth in our membership, community of riders and increase in trail work. As...
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...
