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It's Sunday and I just got back from a beautiful weekend in Downieville. 27 folks showed up for the trail day, including 6 youth, to knock out 1000 feet of new trail. The North Yuba has seen a lot of work on it in the last few years and we're really close to finishing this 7 mile section of trail, which when complete will link a new 15 mile trail straight out of town that will be open almost all year round. This is a big deal and we're so close. But how close are we really?

I've had ideas of how close we were but had never ridden the whole thing to see for myself how much was really left to do until today. Tod (1D), Todd (DoubleD, Toe-Clip Todd), and I rode it today to see for ourselves . We spent a little less than 30 minutes hike a biking a half mile of unfinished trail til we hooked up with the finished half on the other side. Once we got to the other side, we were greeted with sweet flowing single track (minus a couple down trees and debris) that descended 3 miles into Goodyears Bar.  Read More »

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Who is Palatar? Unless you were one of the chosen few to hear the memorable and remarkable campfire story by Max, you'll have to wait until the next Epic... or go camp out with the Quincy boys at the Smith Lake base camp.

Epic Recap: Trails were ridden, bikes were carried, paths were hiked, meat was grilled, new friends were made, laughs exploded, and rumor has it that somebody threw up... although I didn't see it nor was there any photo documentation, so we can only speculate at this point. To view pictures of the event, click here(if you have any pics from the event, upload them on Flickr and send them to the SBTS Group Pool por favor).  Read More »

Did you know that if you turn off all the lights and type by the light of your laptop that your screen will attract flies, beetles, and all forms of insects? It's true... and is happening right now... and since it's the mountains, the bugs are seriously gigantic.

Trail Update: The Smith Lake trail is done and our crew has moved on to the next project which is the creation of multiple switch backs coming off the back side of Elwell. The old(current) trail there is steep, unsustainable, and turns into a river when wet, so these switch backs will be a nice improvement once completed.

We've finished brushing on the new section and 3 of the switch backs have been constructed. Our crew will continue work on this section until the snow falls and we'll be working here the Sunday of the Epic weekend with as many volunteers as we can muster.  Read More »

Email received from Willie this morning:

The new trail, Smith / Jamison Connector, aka Cheez It, will be opened today. We will do the last of the blasting and open the entrance up to the Smith Lake Trail. It is incredible and is receiving rave reviews by visitors and the Forest Service.