SVBC Trail Work & Stokesville Solar Celebration! March 28th-30th.
Everyone and anyone is welcome to join SVBC and Shenandoah Mountain Touring/Stokesville Lodge for a weekend of trail work, camping, riding and Solar celebration! The Solar Weekend will celebrate the time of year when daylight overtakes darkness. Join us for this celebration! Details below:
Trail Work Schedule:
Friday March 28th: Meet at Stokesville Campground at 3pm. We will park by the entrance of the Girl Scout Parking Lot and hike to the work location on Lookout Mountain. If you can’t make it at 3pm please feel free to come later but remember to bring two tools from the”Big Red” Truck.
Saturday March 29th 9am-5pm : Our first crew will leave Stokesville Campground at 9am and do the same access as Friday. We will have a second crew leave from the Stokesville Campground at 1pm as well. Feel free to come to the work site (hiking or biking in) anytime during the day. Even a 3o minute trail effort during your ride goes a long way!
Sunday March 30th TBD: There will be a trail work component on Sunday. This will be building some new trails at the Stokesville Campground.
Trail Work Details:
Project Details: Each hour you work is worth $22 to SVBC! This project is part of the successful DCR RTP grant that SVBC continues to administer. Your trail work hours count as part of the $30K match that SVBC is required to provide!
Site Location: The work location is the same project that was worked on during the 2013 Shenandoah Mountain Bike Festival, the Wild Oak Trail on Lookout Mtn. It is a step 20 minute hike in via a foot path (follow ribbons) then a 5 minute walk in on the Wild Oak Trail.
Work Sessions: We will have 3 work session (see above), each one about 4 hours round trip the Stokesville Campground, but anytime you can commit to this project is greatly appreciated. For more details: tj@shenandoahbicycle.com or 540-236-2001.
Camping: The Stokesville Campground will be open free this weekend! Feel free to camp Friday and/or Saturday Night.
RSVP: Please RSVP (Tell us for which session of trail work or meals you will participate) Shenandoah.mountain.touring@gmail.com
Meals: Stokesville Lodge will be providing dinner and breakfast meals this weekend, please include your meal attendance with your RSVP. You are on your own for lunch!
2 Responses
I have attended the Shenandoah 100 several times so I am familiar with the Stokesville campground. My wife and I have a trip planned with our fifth wheel trailer and when I got the email about the Solar weekend we thought we would like to consider attending. If we came in on Saturday would we be able to camp Saturday night. We would have to leave Sunday afternoon but would love to get a ride in If there was anything planned. It has been a long winter in Massachusetts.
I realize there is no electric or water.
I would like to volunteer for trail work but I am not sure of my exact schedule. Would certainly like to make a donation in lieu of trail work if we get in too late.
Could you let me know about planned rides on Sunday and also the possibility of camping with a fifth wheel.
Thank you
Jack Ford
Jack
RSVP to shenandoah.mountain.touring@gmail when you know what you are coming for. If you can’t make it in time for trail work Saturday you can help out with the meals and make a trail donation. There will be many rides going out on Sunday if the weather is good. I am sure you will get set up on one when you arrive. We recommend Lookout (the trailwork project) and/or Narrowback, both adjacent to the Campground.