By Medicine Wheel Trail Advocates

Medicine Wheel Trail Advocates has several projects planned for 2010 and we need trained
trail crew leaders to help us out.

If you would like to learn the right way to design and build trail,
here's a
great way to get started.  Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) in
connection with the City of Colorado Springs Parks Department is holding
a crew
leader training seminar over the weekend of May 8 and 9, 2010 (this
weekend).  For more information, see the VOC
web site here.

MWTA will provide you with a copy of the book "IMBA Trail Solutions" (click
here to see a sample), the bible of MTB trail building, and we'll
pay for
your seminar with VOC over the weekend.  In return, we will ask that you
agree to co-lead at least three trail work sessions in 2010.  That's it!


The projects we have on the schedule include:

• Bear Creek Bonus Loop  - we're adding an extra loop to the Stephanies/Zipline trail that we built last year on the west end of
  Bear
  Creek Park, near Section 16.
• Palmer Park trail maintenance - Palmer Park needs our help, so we'll have several
  days scheduled for trail maintenance, repair, and even new build
  trail as
  we re-route the extra bad sections.
• Captain Jacks Reroute - We'll be partnering with CMTRA (the motorcycle guys) to
  re-route a section of the world famous captain jacks trail (it ran
  over
  private property, so we're fixing that)
• Several other repair and re-routes in the city parks system (we'll even take
  suggestions).

Some trail building experience is recommended by VOC, but if you haven't been to a
trail building day, we can provide you with some experience and training
prior
to the seminar weekend.

Come on down and get some training as a crew leader.  Spots are limited,
so if you are interested, please send me an email - jim@medwheel.org - to reserve a place.