Archive for February, 2010

CORBA Has a New Calendar

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

We have moved to Google Calendars to display our activities. You can access it on our home page from the menu bar or from the calendar image, shown at right. Why change? There are a number of advantages:

  • Entries are color-coded by activity type, making it easier to find the kind of event you’re looking for
  • You can copy our activities to your own Google calendar and add alerts for yourself
  • You can display our whole calendar on your own Google calendar
  • We can display events from other organizations that use Google calendars. So far we have rides from two clubs, the North Ranch Mountain Bikers and Over the Bars Mtn Bike Club
  • For CORBA volunteers, it’s much easier to administer these calendars

If you belong to an organization that uses a Google calendar to publicize activities, let us know and we’ll consider adding it to our collection. Contact us at info@corbamtb.com.

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Trailwork Report – Backbone Trail

Monday, February 1st, 2010

On Saturday, January 30, CORBA volunteers had a very productive day out in the Santa Monica Mountains. Ten riders met us at the Reseda trailhead, four of us loaded up BOB trailers full of tools, and headed for Rogers Road in Topanga State Park. Trailers and bicycles allow us to travel further down the trail in a given amount of time and get more done in the same time as the other two groups who hiked in and worked on the first mile of the trail.

It was a cooperative trailwork day with the Sierra Club and Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council.  These other groups stayed closer to the beginning of the trail.

We rode to the Oak tree several miles in on the Backbone trail. Another five volunteers rode in from the south side and met us there. We hiked down about 3/4 of mile and went to work on this steeper and badly eroded section of trail. Most of what we did was erosion prevention, putting in new water diversions, and clearing out some older filled and blocked off ones.

After several hours of work, we had built and/or restored 40 water diversions, reinforced one section of trail that was eroding away completely, as well as some brush clearance. It was a productive day.  Towing a trailer full of tools on the ride out adds an extra challenge, but can also be a lot of fun. CORBA’s BOB trailers have earned their keep over the years.

CORBA treated the volunteers to lunch at Sharkey’s afterwards, everyone feeling good about what was accomplished. When working with Sierra club and other groups on shared-use trails, it is always helpful to have a strong mountain bike contingency showing that we care for our trails as much as any other trail user group.

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