Landmark/Boston Lot is open!
UVMBA maintains and expands access to multi-use, non-motorized trails in the Upper Valley of NH and VT, including the towns of Lebanon, Hanover, Hartford, Norwich, Plainfield and others. We are a volunteer, community-driven organization dedicated to being responsible trail stewards.
Another group ride coming up! This Sunday at 9am.
This time we're going technical and covering all the hardest trails in Landmark (Boston Lot). Advanced trails, but a casual, session friendly pace. All features are walkable if needed.
We’ll start from Naturewalk and make our way up to Burnt Mtn via Burnt Pathway and OSB. Then we'll get into the goods with Robs to Spiny on our way up to the quarry. Afterwards we'll descend Warrior Princess. Going up GOAT is the worst thing ever so we will take the sidewalk for several minutes before dipping back into the woods. We’ll end by with Quarry Red to Andy’s Candies, Canyon, and Hardwoods.
Warrior Princess has steep and committing lines interspersed with mandatory features, so be prepared to walk your bike if needed.
Rain or shine, 18 volunteers did some great work at Hurricane Town Forest on Saturday!
Fun fact of the day: While most people think of Landmark (aka Boston Lot) when they think of UVMBA, we actually have two other networks within our chapter. Hurricane Town Forest in Hartford, VT and Union Village Dam in Thetford, VT.
Uvd is apart of it??! That's neat! Still plenty of space over there for new trails...
Come join us for another group ride!
Departing from Nature Walk we will do a 8 mile loop with about 900' of elevation gain. While there will be some rough sections of trail, most of the loop should be relatively smooth (at least for B Lot standards!).
Trails Work Day Hartford Town Forest Saturday, June 3rd 8:30 a.m.- Noon
Come help take care of the trails in the Hartford Town Forest. Work will include building a new bridge, drainage work & improving treadway. Bring water, tick and eye protection, hand tools (shovels, loppers, small saws, etc.)
Cookout to follow at Noon. Meet at the Town Forest Trailhead Parking Area on Reservoir Road.
Oscar Garcia
Jennifer
Wondering why we cleared a 20' wide trail? To build some sweet bridge drops of course!
Come help us build and setup a few drops on the new trail. If we get enough folks we might even be able to build a couple of small dirt jumps/rollers on the section above too.
Love the progress you have all made here! Such a gem.
Come join us for our first group ride of the season!
Departing from the Nature Walk Entrance we will do a 7 mile loop with about 900' of elevation gain. While there will be some rough sections of trail, most of the loop should be relatively smooth (at least for B Lot standards!). No mandatory features but there will be a few opportunities to session rollers along the loop.
I too am out of town and sad to miss it. Have fun to all who go! Thanks UVMBA for getting group rides up and running at Landmark!
Not sure I'm ready for a group ride yet ... but I'm about to pay my UVMBA membership dues.
Bummed to miss this!
Love this! I’ll be out of town but it sounds so fun!
Weather is perfect 🤩
Trails are beautiful 💯
Have you gotten out to ride?!
#bostonlot #uvmba #getoutside
Yesterday! Painted trilliums in bloom! And I saw the beaver working near the new bridge 🦫
Looking forward to it!
Member appreciation day is this Saturday, May 13 from 11am to 2pm at the Nature Walk Trailhead.
We will be providing free beef and veggie burgers, chips, and drinks. And even a free cookie if you complete the challenge!
@littlebellasmtb is back! This is a mountain biking program for girls and gender expansive youth ages 12-15 that is hosted out of the Nature Walk Trailhead. It's a wonderful program that has been here for years now and really does a great job at getting a broader group of riders out on the trails.
Link below for registration
littlebellas.regfox.com/2023-participant-ride
Couldn't make it to the trail day on Sunday? Don't worry we have another opportunity this week!
We're going to take advantage of this wet weather to rock armor a couple notoriously muddy spots on Mainline.
Wednesday, May 3, 5:30pm at the DHMC entrance.
Just under a week away from our spring work day! We'll be doing some clean up work in the skills area, prepping for an expansion of the skills area, and continuing work on the Beaver Dam bridge.
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. With 1-2” of rain falling in the last 24 hours it won’t “destroy you” to wait for the trails to dry out a bit! 😉
Remember, the season is early! We will have lots of riding ahead of us! Help protect the trails and stay off of them when they are saturated and wet.
It's the most exciting day of riding season! All trails are open (other than winter only trails) and it's quite dry out there.
Expect plenty of sticks, small logs, and other debris down on the trail so please lend a hand when you're out and soon enough we'll be cleaned up.
What's going on in the nature walk parking lot?
We're delineating the wetlands area with a line of boulders. These are going to moved into place (blue circles) over the next few weeks. This is a key first step towards getting the pavilion built as this was a condition of the permit.
We're excited to kick off the bike season with our annual work day. Projects will include working on the skills park area and continuing the Beaver Dam Bridge.
9am to ~ 12pm
Parking lot pizza and beverages following the work day!
We are thrilled to announce our latest trail building tool purchase! We heard your complaints loud and clear about the trails being too rocky and we're here to help. If you thought @greenwoodlands trails were smooth get ready to see Spiny once we're done with it!
And a self-powered generator/compressor you can ride to the work location 😅
Drop bar bike compatible mtb trails are so hot right now 👏👏
Let me know when you finally get blot paved
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Thank goodness I knew this was an April Fool's joke!
Bout time. That stuff was too hard.
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VMBA is the umbrella non-profit that supports and advocates on behalf of 28 united Chapters and over 9,400 members. Support VT trails today.Landmark/Boston Lot is closed due to warm weather and rain. This will most likely be the end of the winter season, and trails will probably stay closed until they dry out later this spring. Time to get that trail bike tuned up!
Thanks to a very generous grant from @vmba802 (and some matching funding via UVMBA membership dues) we were able to purchase a powered wheelbarrow for trail work!
Come spring we are very excited to test this out for carrying dirt, rocks, and equipment on trail days/nights. This will be a big step for us to get more done on the trails in less time, and with less backbreaking carrying!
Congratulations!
That is awesome
Beast mode
Repost from our friends down in Sullivan Country. See story for links
Recreational trails are an important part of our region’s infrastructure for our health and economic vitality and Sullivan County, with the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, wants to preserve these resources for future generations. You may have seen the article in the Valley News last month detailing the effort. No matter how you use trails in Sullivan County – as much or as little -- we want to hear from you! What makes a good trail? What brings you back to a place? How can we preserve these trails for our kids and grandkids? Sullivan County is holding another public forum for on Thursday, March 23 at 7pm on Zoom. Register here! If you can’t make the forum, there is a public engagement survey you can take here. Questions? Email tjosephson@uvlsrpc.org
Register for forum: forms.gle/3BvKy9i36adEcenC6
Public Survey:
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