Many of you know the familiar faces of Ron Strasser and John Joy. They have long ago become staples of our wonderful mountain biking (... and roadie/cyclocross/racing) family. They not only show up for races and rides, but consistently put in many hours for trail building and maintenance. A Trail Party just wouldn't be the same without them.

Ron and John Joy have been working dilligently on the Scappose trail system. This has brought us all hours of singletrack pleasure.

Ron had an exciting announcement yesterday:

I will be leading a trail maintenance and ride day on the Wilson River Trail (WRT).  We will plan to meet at the Cornelius Pass Roadhouse for car pooling at 9:00am.  We will access the WRT near Keenig Creek Trailhead from Cedar Butte Road and clear as many of the small trees and branches from the trail working east towards the Footbridge Trailhead.  You may recall from my earlier posts that this section of trail had quite a bit of blow down and wash outs from the winter storms.

The second TRAC meeting will take place the evening of Thursday May 15th at the Forest Grove ODF office located at 801 Gales Creek Road.  The public is welcome to attend this meeting - your presence is appreciated!  The TRAC charter and the second party Recreation Assessment will be discussed at this meeting.

If you are unable to attend, but have mountain bike related comments/issues that you would like TRAC to address, please let me know.

The 2nd Tillamook Recreation Advisory Committee (TRAC) Meeting will take place on Thursday May 15, 2008.  TRAC meetings are open to the public, so feel free to come if you would like to voice your comments to ODF regarding mountain bike recreational access in the Tillamook State Forest.  If you are unable to come, please let me know if you have comments/concerns that you would like me to share.