Originally posted by Irulan
ride in a "sustainable" manner... ride in a manner that does not promote erosion or trail damage; waiting for trails to dry out, not sanitizing or altering, not going around obstacles ( walk it if you can't ride) and so on.
My philosophy is to leave it (IT meaning the trail or the earth) better than when I got here. I carry a little zip-lock with me and pick up GU wrappers and trash along the trail when I can. After I did a 24-hours of Adrenalin race last year, I rode the course the following weekend and cleaned up dead tubes, water bottles and other trash.


Originally posted by Irulan The IMBA trail care crew came through here a few years ago and we rebuilt and 200 foot section of trail. It was a lot of fun, people from all sorts of clubs showed up.
Trail work days are HARD WORK... lots of blisters. But it's a rewarding feeling that I'm giving back to something that gives me so much pleasure. Penny, isn't that 200 foot section of that trail special to you now?