For our final 2009 Loop Trail day this Saturday, we will push to connect our great new trail above Skunk Canyon to the Fisher Pt trail. Saturday’s forecast? “clear- high 63″-–a beautiful fall day. Coffee and sign-in starts at 8am, work begins at 8:30. Work stops around lunchtime.

We’ve made great progress on the Loop Trail in the 2008-2009 season, encompassing 10 trail days–enlisting over 400 volunteers and accomplished nearly 3000 hours of volunteer effort. We broke ground on Observatory Mesa on National Trail Day and sped 1.5 miles across the Mesa toward Cheshire. The balance of the summer saw nearly a mile of trail in and around Skunk Canyon completed. This first year on the Loop Trail has netted us over 2 miles of quality new trail! In the 2010 season we hope to complete connections from Observatory Mesa to Cheshire neighborhood, Campbell Mesa to Arizona Trail D, and Skunk Canyon to Campbell Mesa–We hope you will join us on this legacy trail!

DIRECTIONS: Take Lone Tree Road south to J.W. Powell Blvd and turn left/east. Go to the barricades and turn into Pine Canyon Club’s NORTH entrance: Important! Get a visitor’s pass at the booth. Follow signs: take an immediate left on Clubhouse Circle, drive 1.3 miles and turn left/east on Del Rae, following it 0.6 miles to the end circle. We will stage in front of “Lot 191″. Try this mapquest MAP.

Please come with sturdy shoes, long pants, water, sunscreen, and a hat or bike helmet; and gloves if you have some. Consider bringing raingear, weather is changesome. We will provide hard-hats, tools and equipment, guidance and training. Kids under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

You can help us prepare for the Loop Trail Day by pre-registering now so we can estimate lunch, coffee and equipment quantities. Contact Looptrail@flagstaffbiking.org with questions. THANKS!

Board of Supervisors

October 3rd’s Loop Trail Day once again returns to Skunk Canyon/Ridge.

DIRECTIONS: Take Lone Tree Road south to J.W. Powell Blvd and turn left/east. Go to the barricades and turn into Pine Canyon Club’s NORTH entrance: Important! Get a visitor’s pass at the booth. Follow signs: take an immediate left on Clubhouse Circle, drive 1.3 miles and turn left/east on Del Rae, following it 0.6 miles to the end circle. We will stage in front of “Lot 191″. Try this mapquest MAP.

 Please come with sturdy shoes, long pants, water, sunscreen, and a hat or bike helmet; and gloves if you have some. Consider bringing raingear, weather is changesome. We will provide hard-hats, tools and equipment, guidance and training. Kids under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

You can help us prepare for the Loop Trail Day by pre-registering now so we can estimate lunch, coffee and equipment quantities. Contact Looptrail@flagstaffbiking.org with questions.  THANKS!

Board of Supervisors

Listed below is an abbreviated schedule of the week’s events; for further information and details please visit http://www.flagstaff.az.gov/index.aspx?NID=1724

• Wed Sep 30 7:30 am -> Breakfast Walk City Hall
• Thu Oct 1 9 am-4 pm -> Safe Routes to School Workshop – Kinsey School Church of the Resurrection. CANCELLED, RESCHEDULING POSSIBLE
• Fri Oct 2 8:30-11 am -> Sunnyside Fourth Street Walkability Audit: Coconino Co Health Dept
• Fri Oct 2 4-7 pm -> Downtown Scavenger Hunt downtown Flagstaff
• Fri Oct 2 4-7 pm -> Pedestrian Awareness Booth Heritage Square
• Sat Oct 3 9 am-noon -> Community Sidewalk Clean-Up Day Kinsey School parking lot
• Sun Oct 4 9 am -> Hike the FUTS/Ride the Bus Sechrist School parking lot
• Mon Oct 5 All Day -> Try Transit Day All Mountain Line bus routes
• Tue Oct 6 9-11 am -> Southside Accessibility Audit Downtown Transfer Center
• Tue Oct 6 noon – 1 pm -> Brown Bag Lunch Presentation on Complete Streets Community Federated Church
• Wed Oct 7 7:30 – 9:30 am -> International Walk to School Day Killip, Kinsey, Marshall, Sechrist, and Thomas Elementary Schools

PAW may not have all the great raffle prizes, but all of us self-propelled folks know that every walk and ride is replete with beauty, views, fresh air, great health and inner calm.

See ya on the FUTS!

Our Sept 19th Loop Trail Day had to be moved from Observatory Mesa to Skunk Canyon.

Legal issues with the easement will delay, but not prevent, completion of our coveted link to Cheshire, so FEAR NOT! We have some great new trail to work above Skunk Canyon that will be perfect for the waning days of summer, which are forecast to be “partly cloudy- high 76″–perfecto.

We will be picking up where the CREC crew left off this summer… you’ll want to check out the sweet trail we have all built so far! There’s about a mile to go for us to reach the Fisher Point trail.

DIRECTIONS: Take Lone Tree Road south to J.W. Powell Blvd and turn left/east. Go to the barricades and turn into Pine Canyon Club’s NORTH entrance: Important! Get a visitor’s pass at the booth. Follow signs: take an immediate left on Clubhouse Circle, drive 1.3 miles and turn left/east on Del Rae, following it 0.6 miles to the end circle. We will stage in front of “Lot 191″. Try this mapquest MAP.

 Please come with sturdy shoes, long pants, water, sunscreen, and a hat or bike helmet; and gloves if you have some. Consider bringing raingear, weather is changesome. We will provide hard-hats, tools and equipment, guidance and training. Kids under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

You can help us prepare for the Loop Trail Day by pre-registering now so we can estimate lunch, coffee and equipment quantities. Contact Susan@flagstaffbiking.org with questions.  THANKS!

Valet bike parking was an outstanding success Labor Day when 270 cyclists pedaled to the Coconino County Fair with a free entrance for cycle-commuters. Our fair commuting cyclists then enjoyed decorative prize-winning chickens, deep-fat fried everything, and wild inverting rides; in addition to their refreshing and scenic commute along one of Flagstaff’s beautiful FUTS out to the Fair Grounds at Ft Tuthill.

The 4 day fair saw nearly 400 folks take advantage of Flagstaff Biking Org’s first ever “Valet Bike Parking Service” with reduced or free fair tickets. Friends of Coconino County Park’s also helped run the Ramada’s booth. In conjunction with the booth, Jack Welch lead a hike each morning of the fair that garnered 160 hikers free admittance to the fair.

That was a great deal for cyclists and hikers, and given the cost of building and maintaining parking lots, not a bad deal for the county either. The response was overwhelmingly positive and many grateful folks expressed the hope the service would continue next year! YOUR WELCOME… We hope to!

Next stop… Segment 56… the challenging and beautiful final link to Cheshire. We’ll need your help even more for that final piece, be sure to Save the Dates.. September 19th, October 3rd, and November 7th!

Thanks also to Biff’s Bagels, Late for the Train and Coconino County Supervisor Matt Ryan for sponsoring Saturday’s event. We’ve completed over 1.5 miles of trail this summer!

Lost and Found! A pair of Lady’s eye glasses were found at our lunch site. Please call 928.853.5542 if you lost these!

We got a great start on this trail in June; but we will need more volunteer trail builders to reach our goal to sew the trail into a Loop by this fall! So please help us! Trail building is fun, you meet great folks who share your love of Flagstaff Trails, and you become part of the legacy of the Loop Trail in this great town. Saturday’s cooling forecast = “Partly cloudy, High 77″.–Perfect!

We are staging once again on Observatory Mesa. Follow our signs 1.8 miles from Thorpe Rd near the Bark Park, north to Kinlani Dr, R on Curling Smoke Rd, R on Hogan Dr to cattle guard on left. Here’s a google MAP. The quarter mile of road after the cattle guard is a little rough. Our passenger car did fine, but some may prefer to hike or bike that last bit or carpool with other trail volunteers.

We will serve coffee at 8am, followed by a short trail safety talk. Work begins at 8:30 and goes until lunch time and a raffle drawing.

Please come with sturdy shoes, long pants, water, sunscreen, and a hat or bike helmet; and gloves if you have some. Consider bringing raingear, weather is changesome. We will provide hard-hats, tools and equipment, guidance and training. Kids under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

You can help us prepare for the Loop Trail Day by pre-registering now so we can estimate lunch, coffee and equipment quantities. Contact Looptrail@flagstaffbiking.org with questions.  THANKS!

If there is interest (and energy), we will do a short 5-10 mile Mt Bike ride on Observatory Mesa following the trail event around 2pm.

Thanks to County Supervisor Matt Ryan for sponsoring this trail day.

This Family, Fun & Fitness ride leaves from the downtown Mt Line bus transfer station on West Phoenix Ave (near Biff’s Bagels and across from Fratelli Pizza, see Google map here). We will explore about 10 miles of Flagstaff’s Urban trails. The sun sets at 7:23pm, the Moon rises at 7:45pm, and we pedal into the sunset at 8pm, returning around 10pm. No one is left behind.

   You need to bring a good working bike, a helmet; a mounted flashlight, headlight or lighting system; blinkie light or rear reflector, and light and/or reflective clothing for cooling (yeah!) temperatures. Be prepared to ride on paved and gravel surfaced FUTS trails (Flag Urban Trails). There are a few short but steep hills, but it’s mostly flat.

   Last year we had great turn-out and everyone had a blast… Beat the Heat and Join the Flagstaff’s Night Set for this Cooool adventure! Finish Friday Art Walk with a bang!

    We will have some raffle prizes, and offer FBO Blinkie lights ($15) and memberships to support FBO.
   This is an FBO Martin & Jack Adventure! If you have any questions, contact Susan!

We got a great start on this trail National Trail Day in June; we hope to connect to Cheshire this summer, please help us. Trail building is fun, you meet great folks who share your love of Flagstaff Trails, and you become part of the legacy of the Loop Trail in this great town. Saturday’s FORECAST = “Partly cloudy, High 85″.–Perfect!

We are staging once again on Observatory Mesa. Follow signs 1.6 miles from Thorpe Rd near Bark Park, north to Kinlani Dr, R on Curling Smoke Rd, R on Hogan Dr to cattle guard on left. Here’s a google MAP. The quarter mile of road after the cattle guard is a little rough. Our passenger car did fine, but some may prefer to hike or bike that last quarter mile.

We will serve coffee at 8am, followed by a short trail safety talk. Work begins at 8:30 and goes until lunch time.

Please come with sturdy shoes, long pants, water, sunscreen, and a hat or bike helmet; and gloves if you have some. Consider bringing raingear, weather is changesome. We will provide hard-hats, tools and equipment, guidance and training. Kids under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

You can help us prepare for the Loop Trail Day by pre-registering now so we can estimate lunch, coffee and equipment quantities. THANKS!

The BIKE RIDE has been cancelled due to an injury of one of the ride leaders!  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Bring your mountain bike! We will also be hosting a 5-10 mile no-drop group ride on the Mesa following the trail work and lunch. Bring your helmet and Join us!

We have almost reached our Bike to Work Month membership drive goals but we need your help!

Bike to Work Week 2009 was a spectacular success.. With 1250 folks pedalling over 28,000 miles, we kept 15.4 metric tons of carbon from the air and burned over 260 pounds of human kibble. And we felt great!

But Flagstaff Biking’s Bike to Work Week, youth & adult education and riding programs, and trail work need an active membership. Please help us meet our goals…you won’t be barricaded from your favorite urban or singletrack trail, but we know you value these benefits of Flagstaff Biking Organization’s bike advocacy.

Help us now! Join Flagstaff Biking organization online with Paypal Here! Your bike will thank us.

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Bike to Work Week News: The Winner of the Bike to Work Week Photo Contest is John Shoup. His photo of his morning trek through Ft Tuthill wins him a Burley Flatbed Bike Trailer donated generously from the Bike Shop Hub. Congratulations John!

Thanks to the other folks that submitted photos… you didn’t make the choice easy… Go HERE to see the other entries.

Keep Pedalling!

Flagstaff Biking Organization