IMBA Trail Care Crew Coming To Peterborough

Peterborough IMBA Trails workshop posterThe International Mountain Bicycling Association Canada will be bringing its Trails Care Crew to Peterborough on November 9th to run a trail building workshop. This popular program has crossed Canada showing clubs and trail users how to improve their trails. AJ Strawson and Rachael Raven of the IMBA Canada Trail Care Crew will run this free workshop and teach you how to design, build and maintain trails using sustainable techniques. Read More …

A Sidewalk is Not a Trail

image of trail beside roadParkway proponents suggest that a road and a trail can share the Parkway Corridor. This totally misses the point of the current trail. The value of the Parkway Trail is that it lets you get AWAY from roads. Away from the noise; away from the worry of being hit; away from the mechanised movement. The trails gets you into the quiet; into connecting with the environment around you; into a more relaxing and healthy state of mind. This cannot happen when the trail is beside a road. Read More …