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Do you ride Houston's Memorial Park Trails?
Then help us out and join GHORBA and the Memorial Park Conservancy for our biggest trail work party ever! We will be building the official entrance to the Triangle, the newest trail expansion at Memorial Park.
Nov 19 & 20 (Saturday & Sunday): 9 AM - 3 PM (lunch provided on both days)
Your trail work experience does not matter for these work parties; we will teach you what you need to know.
The Triangle
The Triangle is located inside the loop; North of Woodway, West of Memorial Drive, and East of 610:
Currently, riders who park at the main trailhead parking lot cross Memorial Drive to access the Triangle and ride under a train trestle. The Memorial Drive crossing requires law-abiding riders to intermingle with vehicular traffic and wait at a set of stop lights. Furthermore, riding under the trestles is tricky because the surface is off-camber and remains slick for days after a rain.
The "Official Triangle Entrance" will be located between Woodway and the Arboretum gate. The official entrance will allow riders to access the Triangle trails through a tunnel under Woodway, thus avoiding the vehicular traffic, the traffic lights, and the trestle.
Work Party Details
The BikeTexas Trail Doctors http://www.biketexas.org/content/view/38/51 will supervise the trail construction. Due to the highly technical nature of this trail construction, the volunteers must be patient and strong.
If you'll come, bring:
- Gloves
- Safety glasses
- Sunscreen
- The Memorial Park Conservancy http://www.memorialparkconservancy.org will provide the tools, drinks and lunch
Location:
- Park at the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center http://www.houstonarboretum.org
- We will meet at the Arboretum entrance gate.
It is NOT necessary to volunteer for all of the days or for an entire day.
These work parties qualify for Paydirt points. Paydirt is open to all volunteers and enters you into yearly drawings worth thousands of dollars. See http://tmbra.org for Paydirt info.
If the work party is in jeopardy of being canceled due to wet conditions, please call
Clay at (713) 826 – 5307 or Chris at (713) 922 – 8539, but please don’t call us before 8 AM that morning!
For more information, e-mail bfoshee@...
For more information, e-mail bfoshee@...
About GHORBA:
Our Vision is to establish the greater Houston area as the best large urban city for off-road cycling.
Our Mission:
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For more GHORBA work parties, rides and social events, subscribe to our calendar at http://ghorba.org/calendar and join our Yahoo announcements group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ghorba
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