Fat Bike Mammoth Meeting Notes: 2.12.14
2.12.14 -Lakanuki, 5:30pm — Here’s what we discussed:
- Created our Mission Statement: Fat Bike Mammoth is committed to providing responsible and enjoyable mountain biking experiences for riders of all skill levels. We advocate for the creation, development, and maintenance of year-round riding opportunities in the Eastern Sierra.
- We hope to condense our Mission Statement down to one sentence soon
- Current situation with Winter Fat Biking: Manual grooming efforts with snowshoes and polks/sleds (our successful efforts to create a singletrack snow route on Uptown Trail to the earthquake fault, and expanding soon to an Uptown/Downtown loop).
- Opportunities to create groomed singletrack trail systems on private land with snowmobiles and grooming drags. (potential to discuss with Snowcreek Golf Course)
- Possible opportunity to piggy back a Fat Bike event with the winter Biathlon next year – need to meet with Dr. Karch and MMSA.
- Disabled Access: Wheelchairs and adaptive fat bikes ARE allowed on groomed trails
- Partnering with MLTPA for their 2014 Summer of Stewardship Series – brainstorming mountain bike specific trail work days (Mammoth Rock Trail, Starkweather, etc)
- Starting to create a calendar of group rides and events for the upcoming mountain biking season. Brainstorming bi-monthly or weekly group rides for all skill levels, and assigning ride leaders. It’s gonna be fun, lots of great events coming up this year!! Everything from short 1 hour rides to epic all day events, overnight camping and bikepacking, and gravity/ shuttle rides.. stay tuned. We’re hoping for a couple events/group rides a month through summer and fall.
- Adding the element of BBQ’ing, tailgate parties, etc to our rides/events
- Website: we’re continuing to add to our trail inventory, updating our resources page, and will soon be updating our event calendar.
- Spreading the word: importance of letting friends and fellow riders know that there is a mountain biking club/ advocacy group in town – need to get the word out, and become a respected entity with local land managers.
- We will start having meetings once a month, regardless of season – so as not to lose momentum. Our next meeting will focus on flushing out group rides/events, making specific dates and a functional 2014 event calendar, assigning ride leaders, etc. We will also have a focused discussion on creating a board of directors, spreading out the duties, getting more people to take an active role in the club, etc.
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July 11, 2014 at 12:22 am