New York based Westchester Mountain Bike Association (WMBA) - http://www.wmba.org/index.html has been hard at work putting together this years Fat Tire Festival at Blue Mountain Reservation - http://www.wmba.org/festival2000/index.h... . This year the event is being held Sunday, June 4 rain or shine. The activities will start at 11:00. If you live in the Tri-state area, I strongly recommend that you come to this one day event. If you have never ridden at Blue Mountain, the Festival will be a great time to be shown the trail by one of the locals or a Ride Leader. WMBA has done a marvels job of developing and maintaining the trails at Blue Mountain - http://www.wmba.org/bluemt.html .
Along with the Fat Tire Event, WMBA has been developing and maintaining other Trails and Parks in the Westchester County area. Before I tell you about the new places that WMBA is working on, let me update you some of the on going projects and activities. WMBA has been busy at Graham Hills - http://www.wmba.org/graham.html , Blue Mountain Reservation , and Sprain Ridge remarking trails, Removing Litter, building water-bars / bridges, and improving drainage.
New to the list of on going projects is the Briarcliff Peekskill Trail and Harriman Bike Trail. The Briarcliff Peekskill Trail is currently not a legal mountain bike trail. WMBA hopes that by proactively in repairing the neglected trails, that someday the trails will be open to Mountain Bikers. The Harriman Bike Trail - http://www.nynjtc.org/trails/beechy.html is outside of Westchester County but it is only 5 minutes away. There was no legal riding in the Bear Mountain / Harriman area a few years ago. A group of mountain bikers got together and opened a several miles trail to bikes but the group disappeared and trails did as well. In comes the NY-NJ Trail Conference, a hiking group that has been performing trail work in the New York - New Jersey area for longer then anyone can remember. NY-NJ Trail Conference took on the responsibility of maintaining the mountain bike trail for the past 3 years. As the NYNJTC is a hiking group, they are actively looking for a mountain bike group to adopt the work.
A word about the NY-NJ Trail Conference. Here is a great group, who has been working very hard for a very long time to improve, maintain and develop Hiking Trails. Mountain Bike Groups could afford to lean a lesson or two from an organization such as the NY-NJ Trail Conference. Take a visit to their web site and you'll see the work in progress. You can tell that it's not about money, it's about people. People giving their time and energy to maintain the trails that they use.
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