Trail Work Day

Attention all Trail Riders,

Sunday, February 6th is the Annual (21st or 22nd) CCCMB Super Bowl Sunday Trail Work Day at Montana de Oro. Be ready at 9:00 am at the Spooners Cove Ranch House. There will be crew leaders taking groups out to work on all of our favorite trails. We hope to have a good turn out of equestrians. Tools and training provided. Wear sturdy shoes, long sleeves and bring your own water.

Kathy Longacre, SLOPOST [mailto:kll50@sbcglobal.net]

Poker Ride

Coast Mounted Assistance (CMA) of Montana de Oro State Park will be hosting a fundraising Poker Ride on Saturday October 9th.

CMA provides volunteer horse patrol in the park, works on trail maintenance and helps maintain the horse camp.

Riders can sign up to just ride for the day or register to camp for the weekend.

Email  Kathy Longacre   kll50@sbcglobal.net for an entry in pdf. format.

Endurance Ride Volunteers Needed

From: Kathy Longacre [mailto:kll50@sbcglobal.net] 

 The 2nd Annual Montana de Oro Endurance ride is scheduled for Saturday June 5th and we need volunteers.  We had such good volunteer support last year SLOPOST made almost $4,000.00 that went back into trail maintenance and tools in MdO State Park. 

Plus we did quite a bit of multi-use pre-ride  (mt.bikers and equestrians) trail work that the trails were NOT impacted at all by the ride, and in fact were "photo documented" to be in better shape post-ride, this is known as the "PAY IT FORWARD" endurance ride.

And we were voted "best ride food" in AERC magazine because Coast Mounted Assistance and other volunteers brought desserts and side dishes to compliment the delicious bbq.

We need volunteers for:

• trail monitors at the tricky intersections and the road crossings, you can sign up for 3 hour shift
• a few more P&R people to help at the vet stops
• 2 people to help with parking and volunteer food on Friday
• 1-3 person to help Kathy Longacre with food shopping, making volunteer sandwiches, and organizing the potluck
• We also need people to bring pot luck side dishes and desserts for the Saturday night (June5) dinner
• Trail work on 2 more Friday afternoons before the ride- we start at 2-2:30 and finish about 5:30-6pm contact  Debby Lyon if you are interested in helping.

 Please let Debby Lyon know if you are available to help Saturday June 5 at   debbyly@aol.com

Let Kathy Longacre know if you can help with the potluck, parking or assisting in shopping and preparing volunteer food at   kll50@sbcglobal.netThank you

Trail Ride at Montaña de Oro

From Greg and Mary Bettencourt of Central Coast Concerned Mountain Bikers:

Please join a group of trail users from all over the state on a special ride/ride/hike at MdO on April 24.

As you may know the annual California Trails and Greenways Conference is being held in Cambria on April 21-23. 

CCCMB, SLOPOST and State Parks are very involved with the conference.  We are doing everything we can to promote the benefits of cooperation among various trail users - hikers, cyclists and equestrians as well as land managers.  We believe that cooperation has served all of us well in SLO County and that folks from other areas can benefit from the lessons we have learned.

Because we have a reputation for working together, leaders of the cycling and equestrian communities from other parts of the state have asked us to help them organize a very unusual event for the Saturday after the conference. 

That event is a joint fun ride/ride/hike at MdO.  It is open to any cyclist, equestrian or hiker who wants to participate and we would love to have a bunch of local folks participating. 

Go to www.cccmb.org for all the details. 

Please let me know if you plan on participating as we need a head-count for the bar-b-que afterwards.

Thanks

Greg Bettencourt

gmbett@charter.net

http://cccmb.org