The East Bay Regional Park District Public Advisory Committee (PAC) received a presentation on Monday June 27th from Asst. General Manager of Operations Jim O’Connor regarding proposed pilots at Briones regarding trail conflict, resource protection, and optimizing trail user experience. A multi-discipline team from within the park district has been working developing this pilot […]
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Help support BTCEB’s bell program by sending a donation directly to us. A year long effort with the East Bay Regional Park District, the Regional Parks Foundation, and BTCEB with financial support from REI has two bike bell stations up and running at Briones Alhambra Creek staging area and at the Crockett Hills staging area.
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In addition to meeting up with mountain bike riders at Briones interested in advocating for better trails we also try to work with other trail users to understand how we can coexist, share trails and parks better and improve the experiences for all users.
Reaching out to other trail users – Briones & Equestrians Read More »
Scott Bartlebaugh, BTCEB’s new Advocacy Director, Chris Wikler, our even newer Trail Director and, Tom Gandesbery, the much older Member-at-Large conducted a reconnaissance of Briones Park trail riding opportunities on March 22nd We were joined by local riders Ash and Alec who had contacted us about collaborating with BTCEB and East Bay Regional Parks to bring legal single track (“narrow trails” in EBRPD Parks parlance) to Briones.
2023 was another busy year for advocacy. As typical it’s a number of small steps moving at a glacial pace, but 2023 included very encouraging steps with progress on the Briones Pilot program, Wildcat Flow Trail Project, and Lime Ridge Flow Trail Project among others. In some cases BTCEB is the advocacy lead on
2023 Advocacy Wrap Up – Whew! Read More »
You may have seen our pleas the last few months but we are STILL looking for passionate individuals interested in mountain biking that want to give back to the sport, community, and lands that that we all love. Does that sound like you? Would you like to be part of advocacy, trail work, and expanding
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Trail stewardship at Crockett Hills in 2023 finished up with a surge despite a rough start to the year. Sugar City saw two work days focused on rebuilding and re-shaping rollers, repair and extension of several berms along with drain improvements in those areas. The rebuilding and reshaping of the rollers was aimed at making
Crockett Hills Sugar City Gets a Little Sweeter Read More »
While membership on our free Meetup site continues to grow to nearly 5,100 followers! Membership in the dues paying BTCEB, your local mountain biking organization, has not seen such explosive growth. If you are a Meetup member but not a dues paying member of BTCEB can we get you to consider joining us? To grow, to survive, and to
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BCTEB trail stewardship advocates met with EBPRD trails program staff to discuss expansion of volunteer trail opportunities. BTCEB has been working in partnership with EBPRD since 2015 at Crockett Hills on volunteer trail work ranging from large trail work days, smaller group work sessions, to individual work sessions. BTCEB trail maintenance efforts at Crockett Hills
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BTCEB advocates reached out to EBRPD board members ahead of their July 21st planning workshop. Each board member discussed their particular top priorities for the district at this workshop in the series. We met with 5 of the 7 board members either virtually, by phone, or in person and discussed key priorities of
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