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TAHOE RIM TRAIL BACKCOUNTRY CAMP
Saturday and Sunday October 2 & 3, 2004

Max Jones of Flume Trail Bikes is hosting this overnight trail work weekend
a week after the X-Terra race. Limited to 25 persons, and includes two
catered lunches, a dinner, a breakfast, and beverages (including a donation
from Silver Peak Brewery).

Limited to the first 25, please RSVP by calling Shawn O'Mara at 747-5985.

Meet at Sand Harbor Saturday morning at 8:00am October 2nd to carpool up to
the camp site. We will provide tools. We should be finished by 4:00pm
Sunday.

If you can't make it for the weekend, you are more than welcome to ride on
up and give time some on either of the two days. The more the merrier!

Work will be on the Tahoe Rim Trail above the Tunnel Creek Road. Camping
will be at the currently dry upper Twin Lake. There will be rerouting the
trail in two areas - maybe adding some rock features and completing a long
reroute that was 95% completed this summer. We have to connect this new
section to the existing trail and finish a switch back.

Main meals and beer will be provided (thanks to a donation to the Tahoe Rim
Trail Association from the X-Terra event).

If we have the interest we could transport camping supplies and packs to
twin Lakes and give 11 people a ride to Tahoe Meadows to ride to the site
via the TRT which is nine miles of single track with only about 400 feet of
climbing. This would help us cut down on vehicles in the back country. It is
an easy ride down the hill Sunday to Sand Harbor after the weekend work.

Questions call us at Flume Trail Bikes 775 749-5349.
Max Jones
Flume Trail Bikes
High performance demo and rental mountain bikes
for Lake Tahoe's most beautiful trail.
Maverick ML7 - Turner 5 Spot - Specialized Epic
Located in the Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park
near Spooner Summit on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.
www.theflumetrail.com

The Flume Trail pioneered by Max Jones is featured on the front of IMBA's new new trail building book. The recently completed Tahoe Rim Trail in Spooner Lake Park has made riding the combination of these two trails to offer some of the most beautiful single track riding in the country.

CHECK OUT IMBA's NEW TRAIL BUILDING BOOK

REMEMBER!

TAHOE RIM TRAIL ADVISORY
Mountain Bikes on EVEN days from Tahoe Meadows to Tunnel Creek

It is suggested that mountain bikers try riding the Tahoe Rim Trail between Kingsbury Grade and Spooner Summit on odd numbered days when the section south of Mount Rose is advised closed.

Excerpts from the Tahoe Rim Trail Web page. For the complete article check out the TAHOE RIM TRAIL web site.

"Mountain Bikers Asked to Abide by new Trail Schedule"

The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the United States Forest Service has recently announced the opening of the section of the Tahoe Rim Trail between Mount Rose Highway and Tunnel Creek Road to mountain bikers on even days only. The success of this advisory is dependent on the education and compliance of trail users.….After lifting an advisory closure on mountain biking on an eight-mile stretch of the Tahoe Rim Trail, the U.S. Forest Service is asking bicyclists to alternate riding days this summer to avoid potential conflicts with other trail users.

The Forest Service, the managing authority for the 150-mile loop trail that careens along the Tahoe Basin crest, is requesting that mountain bikers use the section of single track between Mount Rose Highway and Tunnel Creek only on even-numbered days of the year. No restrictions are being set on hikers or equestrian groups.
Conflicts between bikers and hikers and horse packers are as old as the sport of mountain biking itself, which started making a strong presence on Tahoe's trails in the 1980s. By implementing an advisory schedule for biking, the Forest Service hopes to provide a recreational opportunity that will please all three user groups.

In 1996, the Forest Service saw no reason to preserve the Rim Trail Association's request for bike closures, and allowed cyclists to enter in all but a few areas where bikes have been permanently banned - in the Desolation and Mount Rose wilderness areas and along the Pacific Crest Trail portion of the Rim Trail. As an appeasement to horse groups, Nevada State Parks maintains a mountain bike closure on the trail just north of Spooner Summit on U.S. Highway 50 and north to Snow Valley Peak. But it also provides alternative mountain biking opportunities in the area, with the renowned Flume Trail in its boundaries.