Ranger Will from LKN State Park is leading a ride from the visitors center at 6pm tomorrow, Wednesday July 12th.  Weather looks good!  More information here on the park's website (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

It's Monbo! Must be some new rangers at the park?

Thanks Will! See you next week for the Nationals!!

Thats great that you made it out to the ride last night!  I'm banged up from some recent crashes and just plain busy so I wasn't able to make it.

Just shooting straight here, as the current "trail coordinator"  I'm feeling super overwhelmed just trying to get the existing trails into good shape.  I'm sure you saw all of the really deep holes on Monbo on the ride yesterday and apparently Laurel is just as bad.  I can't speak from experience because the last three times I've been at the park I've been doing trail work (as opposed to riding) so I haven't covered much of the trails.

With two or so more workdays we can most likely get Wildlife/Fallstown/Fox fixed up to shed water again, and then we can move on to the remaining 22 miles of trail 

Really, we need tripple the amount of people from the community to get involved in maintaining the trails out there before we can even think about adding any more trail.  We've been lucky to have Jason Duckworth getting very involved with trial work which has been a huge help.  Jason's now a "co-coordinator" at the park which means he has the ability to lead group workdays.  We really need at least two more people to step up and take on leadership roles with trail work at the park so we can have more community members that are capable of leading group workdays.  Getting groups out there on the trails is really the only way to make progress and I just simply can't be at every group workday, I'm too busy.  If I had to be at every group workday then we would never get these trails to where they need to be.

Sorry for the long post but all of the above must be done before any new trail discussions can be had.  We need a larger more committed trail building/maintaining community at LKN State Park, who wants to step up????  Mooresville People?? Troutman People??? Statesville People?? Davidson People???  PM me or email at wwash3rd@gmail.com if you are interested.

Also, thanks to the other Jason (Saltnpepper11) and all others who have been out to workdays recently!

I know how you feel, Will. Everyone wants to build new trails, but someone has to maintain the trails you have now. I didn't get to ride as much as I wanted to, because of trail maintenance.  Good luck getting lots of volunteers!

See you next week at the Nationals at Snowshoe!

BBM

I would love to help out as well Will. Is ent you an email and we can find a time to meet to talk about coordination and what needs the most attention.  Another area to find help, albeit uneducated on trail maintenance is the schools.  Most of the area schools require community service hours so SIHS and LKNH hopefully have some students that need some hours

Great Ride last night. Everyone is loving the new berm section at the end of Laurel. Next ride is planned for Aug. 9 @ 6 PM.

It's perfect weather up here, but The Ranger has walked the trails throughout the day in hopes they have recovered (brought his bike with him). The trails are still really tacky-- and the low spots are really feeling it. Since he follows the rules-- he has chosen to leave the trails closed. 

Plan to try to ride again Aug 30 at 6 PM.

The (power) Ranger plans to ride again this Wednesday August 30th at 6 PM. He wants to ride the Wildlife Area. He'll be sitting under the 'Murican Flag.

Danger Ranger plans to ride again this Wednesday Sept 6th at 6 PM. He'll wait under the flag and ride anywhere you want to ride. The weatherman is calling for rain-- so watch the Radar. Enjoy this nice weather!