Public Trail Day on Forever After on April 5th thanks to BC Bike Race!
8:30am meet at Hyannis.
Please bring water, proper footwear, gloves & personal snacks.
Lunch afterwards provided by BCBR & the Raven Pub in Deep Cove (beer & burger).

Unnecessary Risk vs Inherent Risk.  Photo credit Colin Wilson

On March 4^th, NSMBA’s program manager, Mark Wood, left for Cumberland to share some Shore expertise, teaching current techniques to assess, build, and maintain trails through the Builder’s Academy. The following evening, March 5^th, the Village of Cumberland and the United Riders of Cumberland (UROC) hosted the first ever Cumberland Trails Forum at the Cumberland Cultural Centre.

After a stunning downpour on Saturday, the skies parted and provided a beautiful misty Sunday morning to greet our volunteers for the first NSMBA trail day of 2014.

Rising early for trail day preparations

The trail day leaders, Pat, Digger and I, met a core group of 20 volunteers at Rice Lake Gate. It was awesome to see a strong showing of trail runners out to help (including Peter Watson from North Shore Athletics), especially after suffering through the Dirty Duo the day before. By 9am, everyone was itching to get out on the trail. After a quick effort to hump the massive lunch, gear and tools from the road into the trail, the digging began!