It's time for MWBA members to swap our trail work hard hats for our advocacy caps. You need to speak up. IMBA needs to hear your opinion. Your voice matters. For the first time in many years, there is a divide in the mountain biking community. Two respectable mountain bike advocacy organizations are not seeing eye to eye for mountain bike access in Wilderness areas. … [Read more...]

As mountain bikers, we are naturally conservationists. We love being outdoors, we love nature, the fresh air, the smell of trees, the sound of the crunch of pine needles or leaves under our tires as we commune with nature in the way we love best, on a bike. There is nothing quite like traversing wide distances in the mountains while appreciating our surroundings. The … [Read more...]

Earlier this year, MWBA sent a few Board Directors to the California IMBA Summit at Mammoth Mountain. Of course we meant to post a report about it right away, but we got distracted with trail work and riding. So I asked Jenny Johnson a few questions about her experience at the summit to share with members... Why did you want to attend the IMBA Summit? I wanted … [Read more...]

Largely due to the hard work of CORBA's President Steve Messer of and Jenny Johnson of MWBA, a joint commentary was submitted today to the U.S. Forest Service on the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument Plan and Land Management Plan Amendment's "Need to Change" Analysis. Visit CORBA's web page for further detail regarding the process and please thank Steve for dedicating … [Read more...]