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Ride Like a Girl is heading to Napa for the September edition of our women's ride series. Why don't you join the fun?

Ride Like a Girl - Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa, Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 8:30 AM | Meetup For this month's edition of Ride Like a Girl, [BTCEB](https://btceb.org)'s women's ride series, we're heading to Wine Country to sample the varied and challenging delights

Did you know that we do more than just MTB trail advocacy?
BTCEB also hosts two fun group rides each month! Our monthly RLAG and our GALA rides are the 3rd and 4th Saturdays of each month. We ride all over the Bay Area, and sometimes even get rowdy (at least the ladies do anyway). Check out our website and join our meetup group to RSVP and join a ride. And heck, become a member while you’re at it for just $30 a year.

Who feels like a trip to the seaside?

Ride Like a Girl - Wilder Ranch, Sat, Aug 17, 2024, 8:30 AM | Meetup This month, Ride Like a Girl, [BTCEB](https://btceb.org)'s women's ride series is heading to the seaside for the scenic and sometimes tricky delights of [Wilder Ranch](http

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Signups for Ride Like a Girl in July are open!

And this one is a bit special...

Ride Like a Girl - Joaquin Miller + BBQ!, Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 8:30 AM | Meetup It's back to the heart of the East Bay for the July edition of Ride Like a Girl, our women's ride series. And it's an Oakland three-fer: we're going to hit the nifty single

If you had more fun last Saturday than Ride Like a Girl did at Santa Cruz, you had a pretty amazing day!

Signups for a very special July ride coming soon...

Why support local and state cycling and trail advocacy? Because BTCEB and .org are dedicated to expanding and enhancing bike-friendly trails for you throughout California.

Join us in unifying the voice for mountain bikers in CA, engaging land managers, influencing legislation, and promoting responsible riding and trail stewardship.

Make a donation of $5 or more by June 30 for a chance to win an $8,000 Ibis Dreambike of your choice!

Link in bio to enter! 🔗

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June is officially Mountain Biking Month in the state of California!
And there’s still time to enjoy the success of the work that did to get the resolution to the state and for the state to approve ACR 152, and our dapper Trail Director’s (Scott) request to the to approve the resolution to designate the month of June as EBRPD MTB month as well.
Go celebrate! Go ride your bike! And signup to donate $5 or more to win a pretty sweet beauty. And we mean hella sweet. Proceeds support local () and state () advocacy directly for more and better trails. Link in bio.

Today the board passed a resolution to proclaim June 2024 as EBRPD MTB month! Yesterday the state of California voted to approve resolution 152 designating June 2024 as California Mountain Biking Month!
month is a celebration of the people and culture of the larger mountain biking community of California.
Thanks to our advocacy director for bringing the resolution to , to for supporting the efforts at todays meeting, for Scott and attending meetings in Sacramento this week, AND to for drafting and championing the state bill!
These resolutions recognize the deep roots mountain biking has in California as the birthplace of the sport, and highlights the numerous benefits mountain biking provides to Californians and communities across the state!

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Proceeds support our local and state advocacy for more and better trails, with 80% of the proceeds benefiting our local trail stewardship program. See link in bio to make your donation today!

BTCEB's Ride Like a Girl is going to Santa Cruz for our June ride. It's gonna be a grand day out!

(Fathers' Day is on Sunday, so that's not an excuse for ducking this one. 😘)

Ride Like a Girl - Santa Cruz, Sat, Jun 15, 2024, 8:30 AM | Meetup Did you know that "pogonip" is a mangled version of a Shoshone word meaning "freezing fog"? We mention it because the July edition of women’s ride series will start in Pog

Thanks to the ladies for volunteering to do trail work today out in Joaquin Miller Park!
We had a super fun time working with them. For most of this crew it was their first time doing trail work, but they were naturals. They worked hard today!

The BTCEB trail crew hardened a chronically wet spot on Tree Frog at Crockett Hills this week. This should provide more stability to this section during wetter times. The trail has two more spots in this S turn that are also on the ‘to do’ list.

BTCEB was out on a Thursday workday brushing mustard and thistle. A tenacious crew of 10 made a dent in the lower section of Sugar City. The staff mowing is key but it only goes so far and volunteer hand work deals with the rest. A big thanks to the volunteers that dealt with this and the ticks that call it home.

Signups are open for the May edition of our women's ride series, Ride Like a Girl. If history is anything to go by, it'll be an excellent time!
https://www.meetup.com/bicycletrailscouncil/events/300834061/

Stop by the CAMTB booth G46 at Sea Otter and learn more about local and statewide advocacy. BTCEB will be running the booth mid day Saturday and Sunday morning. Happy Trails.

NICA teams - many of you are looking for trail stewardship opportunities. Here’s a chance and racing is postponed this weekend. We know it’s short notice but opportunity is knocking. Everybody, please pitch in if you can. The work scope for this dig day will help advance a specific mtb access action item in the Roads and Trails Management Plan. Short story is it means more access.

Eager for more pics of the BTCEB Trail Angels at Joaquin Miller Park? Check out this little photo essay on our website.

Trail Angels on Cinderella - Bicycle Trails Council Last weekend, an energetic and skilled crew of BTCEB trail angels, led by Director Tom Gandesbery, was at Joaquin Miller Park working on the Cinderella Trail. Cinderella, or Cindy to her friends, is one of the funnest and most challenging narrow trails in the whole Bay Area. Cindy is fast and flowy,...

This is a great opportunity to support . JMLT protects open space and shows conversation and access are complimentary. This trail work will improve the Canyon Loop by replacing a chronically wet section of fire road with a more recreation friendly single track. Volunteer for one or both days. provide excellent organization and support for their trail stewardship projects.

Tom put on a great work day at JMP yesterday. We got some serious work done:

1. Moving the trail away from a fragile culvert edge, which involved a fair bit of earth moving and sawing through a large, downed tree using completely unsuitable saws!
2. Creating a “blue” line through the rock garden on the right (without “dumbing down” the fast black line on the left). Lots of sledgehammer work and we (well, they, since I was just taking pics) built a new small rock retaining wall to fix an off-camber bit that less-experience riders would find daunting. Eric Strempke builds a nice wall! We saw several riders spontaneously take this line afterwards, so I think we got it right.
3. Adding a drain to fix a nasty wet spot just before the trail splits lower down
4. Brushing on Castle Park just before the entrance to Cindy

Thanks, Gandesbery and all who came out.

Freshly minted Buzz Newsletter for April 2024 is available here:

BTCEB Buzz April 2024 - Bicycle Trails Council BTCEB Donates Over $6,000 to Community Trail Orgs in 2022 Lime Ridge Flow Trail — Get Involved! RESCHEDULED: Gala Ride at Mt Tam Watershed to Jan 7, 2023 Call for BTCEB Board of Director Candidates! BTCEB 2022 Donations to Local Youth Teams EBRPD Trail Study Session Update Mount Diablo State Park ...

Mother Nature has conspired against us yet again — the rain forecast for Thursday has moved itself smack-dab in the middle of our work time. So, we’re cancelling the work day. Watch meet up for future week day or weekend work days.

Join us at Crockett Hills Regional Park on Thursday, April 4th (9am-1pm) for a morning of trail work — work scope will most likely be drains and/or features on Sugar City or Soaring Eagle trails.

The rainy season is (hopefully) nearing an end — let’s have our park ready for a great spring, summer and fall of riding!

Registration link in bio (Meet Up)

Do you like to ride mountain bikes? Interested in learning about trail advocacy and working to expand access for mountain bikers in the East Bay? Want to ride in fun places? Well then, we’ve got the right volunteer position for you. Come join our board!
Help spread the word! Fill out the form - link in bio.

A bit more notice this month...
Signups are open for Ride Like a Girl at Fernandez Ranch on April 20th!

Ride Like a Girl - Fernandez Ranch, Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 8:30 AM | Meetup After last month's China Camp session, it's back to the East Bay for a mellow-yet-fun spin around [Fernandez Ranch](https://jmlt.org/our-places/fernandez-ranch/) near Marti

Sorry to keep everyone waiting, but signups are open for Ride Like a Girl at China Camp this coming Saturday. Join us?

Ride Like a Girl - China Camp, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 8:30 AM | Meetup For March, we're going to do what the weather prevented us from doing in January: ride China Camp near San Rafael! Join ride leader Rebecca Lewington on Saturday, March 16

Ride Like a Girl was most excellent today at Pacifica. Perfect weather, amazingly good trail conditions and myriad smiles!

A big shout out from ride leader Rebecca to her fearless helpers: Jen, Kelli, Alexandria, Sharon and Laura. She couldn't have done it without you!

Signups are open for Ride Like a Girl at Pacifica on Sunday February 25th!

(Yes, that is a different day than usual. Well spotted!)

Ride Like a Girl - Pacifica, Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 8:30 AM | Meetup *[Note the unusual date and day; Rebecca is out of town on our usual third Saturday of the month.]* Next up in our women’s ride series, we’re going to ride the scenic and