Annual Spring Ride, Campout, and Trail Work Party at Moran State Park

Everyone is invited to join the MVTB work crew at Moran State Park on Orcas Island May 5 - 8th. Come up early if you can. We will have free camping at the Mountain Lake Group site starting Thursday evening. Friday will be riding and planning the trail work for Saturday. Sunday will be riding all day.

Everyone is welcome to come for any part of the weekend and participate as much or as little as you want in the group activities.

We'll have lots of firewood and beer for the evenings and there may be a guitar or two adding to the fun.

Map of the park here: http://www.orcas-lodging.com/images/moran_map.png

Record Turnout of 55 Trail Work Volunteers a One Session

We'd like to thank all 55 of our volunteers who turned out at Little Mountain last Saturday. Fifty-five is our record number of volunteers in one session. This is astounding and we can't thank you all enough. Once again we were operating the high-line system of ropes, pulleys, and buckets. Using this eliminates a half mile wheelbarrow trip so that we can move rock much more efficiently. At the top rock was loaded into plastic buckets.

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The buckets were then attached to the high-line rope at the platform.

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These were lowered down to the next group who emptied the buckets into a wheelbarrow. The empty buckets were then returned to the top very quickly by a couple of counterweighted buckets.

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At lunch the Esteps came out yet again to serve a delicious lunch of soup and bread. Thanks again to everyone who came out to enjoy the weather. Remember, trailbuilding is fun! Tell your friends and we hope to see you out on the trails soon.

Trail Building Volunteers Needed for High-Line Trolley Operation

We’re having another high-line material moving operation Saturday. They are cool enough that a talented videographer, Jim Thompson of Anacortes, captured it for us last session. I think you’ll find Jim’s video compelling. I hope you’ll check it out, and pass it along to your friends – because we need the help: https://youtu.be/ngB-78xZqj0

Last session we learned that our high-line material movement capacity was much greater than our on-trail capacity. Simply put, we need more volunteers. Our goal is to move the balance of the material that remains on the access road down the hill. Please let us know if you can make it.

Thanks for your interest in our work.

Watch Trail Builder's In Action at Little Mountain Park

Here’s a great video on what a day-in-the-life of a trail builder is like at Little Mountain Park. Take a look and share it with your friends - https://youtu.be/ngB-78xZqj0

A very special thanks goes out to Jim Thompson of Anacortes for producing this for us.