Fairfax Fat Tire Festival & Downieville Trail Daze
Two great events coming up: Fairfax Fat Tire Festival is a blast. Lots of great stuff to do, booths to check out, cold beers to drink, bike films to watch, etc. Always a whos who of Marin MTB legends walking aroubd: Gary Fisher, Tom Ritchey, etc etc.
Sierra Buttes manages trails in and aroubd Downieville: their trail daze are a great way to give back.
I plan to be at both as ususal, see below for deets:
NorCAMBA eNews – June, 2006
1. FAIRFAX FAT TIRE FESTIVAL- JULY 22, 23
2. SBTS CELEBRATES SUCCESSFUL “TRAIL DAZE�
3. UCSC DRAFT PLAN INCLUDES MOUNTAIN BIKING
4. AUBURN STATE RECREATION AREA STARTS GENERAL PLAN PROCESS
1. FAIRFAX FAT TIRE FESTIVAL- JULY 22, 23
VELOCLUB FAIRFAX PRESENTS THE 2ND ANNUAL FAIRFAX FAT TIRE FESTIVAL
Free admission! Saturday, July 22, and Sunday, July 23
All of the events on Saturday the 22nd will take place at Central Ball Field
in downtown Fairfax. Events include the Ace of Spades Mountain Bike Poker
Run, a fun ride for all ages and abilities; a classic bicycle show; bicycle
stunt demonstrations by Hans Rey; entertainment by four local bands; and
guest speakers including mountain biking legend Charlie Kelly.
A special Film Night in the Park from 8-10 PM will feature clips from the new
mountain bike pioneers documentary "Klunkerz", a new freeride film featuring
Hans Rey and Thomas Frischknecht, the original Repack Mountain Bike Race film,
and other shorts.
On Sunday, the NORBA sanctioned Friends of Tamarancho Invitational Mountain
Bike Race will take place at Tamarancho Boy Scout Camp, located in Fairfax.
The Junior Race (18 and under), begins at 10:00 AM; the Senior Race (over 18) at
noon. No parking is available due to emergency road closure; course access by
bike is mandatory.
The Festival is held to promote cycling and celebrate Fairfax as the
birthplace of Mountain Biking, and is co-sponsored by Fairfax Chamber of
Commerce. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Downtown Fairfax
Beautification Fund.
Free Valet Bicycle Parking will be provided by the Marin County Bicycle
Coalition.
For more info, visit http://www.veloclubfairfax.com/.
2. SBTS CELEBRATES SUCCESSFUL “TRAIL DAZE�
After months of painstaking effort, the trails under the care of the Sierra
Buttes Trail Stewardship are close to being restored to prime riding condition
after being hammered by an exceptionally wet winter season. The Stewardship
would like to say a very special Thank You! to all the generous volunteers who
have helped us put the trails back together.
We held two Trail Daze events in the first two weeks of June. The first was a
special event staffed exclusively by the racers from Team Wrong Way. The
volunteers spent the day giving upper Butcher Ranch Trail a spring cleaning as
far up as the snow line, and helping Greg and Erik build a re-route past a
hopelessly water damaged section of trail. Everyone then had a fast, fun,
rippin’ ride back to town for the traditional free SBTS BBQ and a keg of beer
from Sac Brew.
The second weekend in June we had a record 37 volunteers show up for Trail Daze.
Many of them drove from as far away as Sacramento, the Bay Area and even
Monterrey to lend a hand. This time, most of the crew pedaled the 6 miles up
3rd Divide and Butcher Ranch Trails to the Pauley Creek intersection where they
then went to work constructing three re-routes around washed out sections of
Pauley Creek trail. Constructing new singletrack is always a trailwork crowd
pleaser and cutting these new trails was no exception as evidenced by all the
smiling faces seen during 4-plus hours of hard work. on the ride back to town
we ran across a smaller group of volunteers led by Wayne Hoffman who had broken
off from the main pack to hike up Big Boulder Trail and fix a section of trial
that had been lost in a winter landslide. As always, SBTS provided a big, post
workday BBQ dinner party and all the free beer we could drink donated by Hoppy
Brewing in Sacramento.
That’s it for the pre-season Trail Daze, but plan on coming up in the fall
when the Trail Daze start up again in October. See the Trail Daze page on
www.sierratrails.org <http://www.sierratrails.org/> for details.
