Trails Can Take You New Places in 2015!
When it comes to getting new mountain bike trails approved and built, the process can take so long you start to wonder if it's ever going to become a reality. Then, all of a sudden, everything comes together at once and work parties are on the mountain shaping dirt.
And that's what's been happening; we've made more progress this year than ever before, and we're not stopping. So far we've worked to create:
Four new trails on Tiger Mountain- New trails in Leavenworth, Wenatchee, Chelan, and approval for Tokul
- Completion of the First Phase of construction at Swan Creek
- Finishing trails planning at Raging River (near North Bend), Wenatchee, & Spokane
- And many more projects in construction or planning around the state
- With such a successful year behind us we are ready to keep rolling into 2015. That means more trails, bigger projects, and even greater advocacy efforts to make sure our legislators hear your voice on mountain biking issues.
But because building and maintaining trail takes more than just volunteer power-it takes money--we need your donation today--if we don't raise $64,500 in the next two weeks, we risk not being able to fund all we have planned.
Your Donation for 2015 Today will help Evergreen to:
- Complete the new Tiger Mountain descent trail connecting to Iverson and work with DNR on a new climbing trail
- Build the trails and skills area recently approved near Black Diamond
- Start work on Alpine Baldy trail (Skykomish), partner on construction of Mt Washington trail (North Bend), and others.
- Continue new trail work in Leavenworth, Wenatchee, Chelan, Spokane, and beyond
- Lead the First Ever Mountain Bike Lobby Day in Olympia! MTBers have a larger voice than ever before!
- Expand the education program-more classes, more areas, and more kids on bikes!
In order to meet all of our 2015 goals we need to raise a total of $147,500 beforeDecember 31st.
Thanks to donations, grants and corporate sponsorships we've got just $64,500 to go- which is a great start but we only have two weeks left to year end!
Almost a third of our funding comes from memberships and individual donations. While Evergreen is very effective at securing grants to power the trail maintenance and trail building crews, your donation is critical to providing the necessary match and ensuring our trail crews are fully staffed next year.
If you love riding Washington singletrack, please make a donation now so we can make 2015 another banner year for mountain bikers statewide!
A big THANK YOU to everyone who has donated so far, and to these partners helping support our efforts:
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Thank you again for your ongoing support! See you on the trails.
Sincerely,
Mike Westra
Trails Program Manager
Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
P.S. Your past support has made a huge impact on Evergreen's ability to build new trails, and maintain the ones we've got. Please donate today so we can do even more this coming year!