Check it out for Flagstaff here!

There will be other meetings to help set up other aspects of Bike to Work Week, so if helping to run the Worksite Challenge is not your specific interest, stay tuned.

We are looking for folks to volunteer to help with this. We need people willing to spend between 20 and 40 hours (maybe more depending upon which duties…) over the next few months, including during Bike to Work Week, helping with things like:

-Assisting in spreadsheet management and data tabulation
-Contacting potential and past worksites and managing and delivering/distributing Worksite Coordinator informational packets
-Collecting and distributing raffle prizes
-Assisting in writing copy for daily updates and other event collateral
-Assisting in setting up media opportunities at the awarding of the prize bikes for the Challenge winners
-Various and sundry other duties and help

If you have any questions, please email info@flagstaffbiking.org

Thanks-

Flagstaff Biking Organization

Check out the Arizona Daily Sun for details.

Thank you, Dale!

Not only would this potentially close many of our State Parks, including Deadhorse Ranch State Park in Cottonwood, location of some great nearby winter mountain biking opportunities, it could severely impact monies spent on trails and trails planning within the State.

Although you may not be directly aware, money administered by the Arizona State Parks has helped to build many of our favorite trails, including the Flagstaff Loop Trail, Deer Hill Trail, the Fort Valley Trail System and others. See here for details on what is going on and who to contact to voice your concerns:

http://arizonastateparksfoundation.org/advocacy.html

Please take a minute to help support parks and trails in Arizona!

Are you or someone you know an artist? FBO is seeking artwork to represent our signature bike event, BIKE TO WORK WEEK 2010.

The artwork should represent biking and the phrase “Bike to Work Week” and “2010″, and may include work or school images, or May 16th-21st. Any cyclists depicted must be wearing a helmet.

The winning artist will get $200, exposure on the FBO website, T-shirts and BTWW advertising. And fame, of course.

If you, or an artist you know (please forward this announcement to them) would like to compete, please submit artwork to Flagstaff Biking Organization, P.O. Box 23851, Flagstaff, AZ 86002, or email it to info@flagstaffbiking.org.

Entries must be received by March 5th, 2010!

Thanks, and good luck!
Flagstaff Biking Organization

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED BECAUSE OF A BAD WEATHER OUTLOOK! NOAA IS PREDICTING 80% CHANCE OF SNOW WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH…16:45 ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH.

November 14th

Lower Fort Valley Trails maintenance.

Please come out and help to maintain this popular trail!

Meet at 8:15 am at Schultz Pass Road immediately after it turns to dirt. We will shuttle from there.. Lunch at 1:00 pm. Coffee will be served between 8:00 am and 8:30 am, and snacks, beverages, tasty lunch and FUN are all provided.

Sturdy closed-toe shoes, long pants, sunscreen, water, a hat or head protection are required. Hardhats, gloves, tools, and trail work instructions will be provided. Children under 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian

Click to view Google map and detailed directions

Sponsored by:

For more information on this trail day event, contact: trails@flagstaffbiking.org

For more information, call Anthony Quintile @ 928-526-7704 or email him.

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

Meet at Schultz Pass Road, where it turns to dirt, off of Ft. Valley Road. We will be shuttling to the walk-in point from there.

Please come out and help us do some much needed maintenance on the Chimney Springs section of the Ft. Valley Trail System!

All Trail events start at 8:30 am and conclude with lunch at 1:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Coffee will be served between 8:00 am and 8:30 am, and snacks, beverages, tasty lunch and FUN are all provided.

Sturdy closed-toe shoes, long pants, sunscreen, water, a hat or head protection are required. Hardhats, gloves, tools, and trail work instructions will be provided. Children under 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Click to view Google map and detailed directions

Sponsored by:

For more information on this trail day event, contact: trails@flagstaffbiking.org

The proposed Timberline Trail is an urban-style trail similar to the Flagstaff Urban Trails (FUTS) that will link Flagstaff to the Timberline and Fernwood Estates in the Doney Park area. The proposed non-motorized trail is intended for hiking, bicycling and equestrian access to popular forest trails along Mount Elden and the Peaks. It will connect to the Flagstaff Urban Trails System (FUTS) and the new Flagstaff Loop Trail. Current alignments place the 10 mile trail on public Coconino Forest land 1000 feet away from adjoining neighborhoods. Here’s a map, and more information about the proposed trail. This is a public trail to be built on public land for all to enjoy and it has already been funded.

FBO thanks those in the Flagstaff community who have supported the Timberline Trail in the past through petitions, e-mails or by attending public meetings in support of the Trail. We appreciate your prior efforts, but we fear our voice has not yet been heard by the decision makers– and the future of the Timberline Trail is in jeopardy. A small but vocal minority may destroy the Doney Park’s community’s opportunity to enhance it’s quality of life with a quality community trail– based on fears that have proven completely unfounded on Flagstaff’s urban trails. We know, and statistics abundantly prove, that urban commuting and recreation trails greatly enhance the quality of life and property values of any community.

We fear that the number of folks who support the Timberline Trail has been under-reported and we thus ask your help to secure this trail system.

Please help us by sending an email to Jack Welch (jack@flagstaffbiking.org) using this format:

“I support the Timberline Trail”; (Plus any additional arguments)

Your name,
Your address (optional but strongly encouraged), or at least your neighborhood,
City, State

FBO will present these tangible support statements at the next public meeting concerning the Timberline Trail. Currently we can’t demonstrate that support — that is why we ask you (and your friends as well) to email FBO your voice of support.

Our goal is provide 1000 e-mails in support of the trail. Please send your e-mail to Jack Welch at Jack@flagstaffbiking.org, and ask your friends to do so also. We can win this trail but we have to be able to prove the public support for the trail is far greater than the opposition.

Thanks,

Jack Welch
Flagstaff Biking Organization
Board of Directors

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