Welcomed by BARTA President Judy Brandt, Hot Rocks patrol director, Matt Carter, and BLM Recreational Planner Suzanne Shelp, the IMBA / Subaru Trail Care Crew #2 stopped this last July 24-28 in Las Vegas. The trail care crew of Lora Woolner and Mark Schmidt conducted a number of evening trail building schools and daytime trail work in southern Nevada.

The evenings consisted of IMBA’s PowerPoint trail building presentation on how to plan and build fun and sustainable trails. The trail work was completed out near the Cottonwood / Blue Diamond area.


Working on a section not officially named, but known as the Mud Springs Bypass trail (aka the "cactus garden"), the trail crew and volunteers “armored” a nasty sandy section. By laying aggregates and larger, bomber rocks on to which the trail tread was to be routed. Very time and labor intensive – but more natural and long lasting than man made materials (such as geomesh) which are typically more expensive and tend to need constant maintenance

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Kudos to those involved helping to make the Las Vegas area a great place to ride: Sarah Sutherland (Outdoor recreation Planner - BLM),  Nick Torres District Ranger US Forest Service, Suzanne Shelp BLM Recreation planner, Judy Brandt (BARTA President), Rob Hayes (BARTA Board of directors), Matt Carter (Hot Rocks National Mountain Bike Patrol),  ans SNRTP (Southern Nevada Recreational Trails Partnership) .