Big thanks to everyone who’s helped bring Hillandale back to life this spring! Over the past 6 weeks, volunteers from the SVBC have spent their Thursday evenings clearing trees, marking mud holes, and re-routing trails. Our last Hillandale trail work day is this Thursday, April 18th. Please join us if you can! This winter was…
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Okay folks…as you may be aware, we have among us a high school junior who is ROCKING THE WORLD…. SVBC member Harrison Naftel is building an outdoor shelter on the Western Slope of Massanutten as his Eagle Project, for us and all our friends (with trail passes of course*) to use FOR DECADES TO COME. Massanutten…
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SVBC members, mountain bikers in the Shenandoah Valley, and Massanutten Hoo-Ha racers have been enjoying amazing trails at Massanutten’s Western Slope for years. Thanks to the hard work of Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition volunteers, several new miles of incredible trail have been built over the past seven years. Now a young SVBC member and mountain…
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This trail on western slope of the Massanutten Resort is the crown-jewel (so far!) of SVBC’s volunteer-built trails. Described as “the best volunteer-built trail in the country,” the 2,000 Hour Trail, so named for the 2,000 volunteer hours it took to build, was the crazy vision of SVBC member Thomas Jenkins, a vision that was…
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SVBC trail work crews will continue with Thursday trail work each week at 5pm – Dark. SVBC now has permission to leave the gate open by the horse stalls on Thursday afternoons so you can drive to the pond for trail work. We will spend Thursday working on the new “IMBA Trail” above the pond…
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SVBC Built Berms on the “Short Track Course” Mike Carpenter knows how to lean… (Photo Credit: Katy Martin-Smith) Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA) February 4, 2012 Section: News-Local Just Add Water When you start asking strangers for water, that’s a sign you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. Last October, Connor and I went to the…
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