I attended the MORC mountain bike skills clinic last Thursday at the Carver Lake Park MTB Trail. Instructors: Jed Olson and Chance Glasford. What did I learn? More on that…
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To the mountain bikers riding past this group of MORC dirt bosses (Drew Diller, Jeff Leech, Porter Million, Reed Smidt) on Friday night on the far west loop of…
Fellow MORC members Dennis Porter, Don Youngdahl and I met with QBP Advocacy Director Gary Sjoquist yesterday at QBP’s HQ in Bloomington to discuss the current situation with the mountain…
Those of us who love to ride have endured a miserable spring here in the upper midwest, with the trails closed due to wet conditions as often as they’ve been…
REI hosted their National Trails Day Service Project on Saturday, part of their REI Stewardship initiative. The Dirt Bosses of MORC (most but not all pictured in left photo…
MORC board member Chance Glasford orchestrated a dozen volunteers yesterday for a big build/rebuild of the MORC pump/jump park in Eagan (Facebook page link). His May 6 blog post…
I joined a crew of MORC / Lebanon Hills volunteers last night as we did some berm repairs, removed downed trees and branches from the trails, and improved a small…
In late Feb, I attended the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota‘s (BikeMN) third annual Minnesota Bicycle Summit on Capitol Hill, noting that I was "trying to get smarter about the state…
Last fall, Bell Helmets and IMBA announced the Bell Built Trail Building Grants and the 12 finalists were named earlier this year. Bell Helmets is providing $100,000 to fund three,…
I’ve blogged a bit about the Eagan pump & jump park where I learned to pump last year. If you follow that tag link, you’ll see the name of Chance…
I began contacting a few guys individually about the Mammoth trail in Chaska over a year ago. Much of the information about it on the MORC site had been removed,…