Category: News
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Why can’t we get along?
State parks has been holdong public workshops for the Empire Mine trail system located in Grass Valley. The event was very positive and super exciting; generally speaking, State Parks has some great plans for new trail and restored trails in the Osborne Hill area of the park. The truly amazing thing is that all user…
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Road to SDF to be blocked off 11/8
Santa Cruz County Roads will be putting a K-RAIL (concrete barrier) on Highland Way at the slide about 4 miles past Burrell Fire Station on Thursday, November 8th at about 09:30. The road has been closed to CAL FIRE vehicles since April, 2007. Now it will be closed to all traffic. County roads said that…
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Status of Trails in the Coe Fire Zone
The fire in Coe, and much more disastrous, the fires in SOCAL, have been devastating for many. In Coe, trails in the fire zone remain closed to the public. While this consequence is a minor inconvenience for a handful of recreationists, the fire has resulted in the death of many plants and animals. They will…
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Pumpkin Ride Report
10 of us on three tandems and 4 singles started pedaling along Hwy 35 from Southern gate of Purisima Creek OSP to fetch pumpkins from Halfmoon Bay. It was the first off-road ride for Jenny and me, a brand new tandem team on a brand new rigid mountain tandem (and the second ride overall.) Photos…
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Lick Fire burns 47,000 Acres
[Paul Nam reflects on the Lick FIre in Henry Coe] On Sunday I went to see what I could of the effects of the Lick Fire upon Coe. It was a beautiful cool day, and a good number of friends met on Gilroy Hotsprings Rd with the same agenda. Photos Eventually we rode along Willow…
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Parker Ranch Closed
Parker Ranch, located in the city of Saratoga nestled in behind the Golf Course and Fremont Older, has been an underground destination for advanced mountain bikers for years. I have heard anecdotally that cyclists have been riding the trails there since the nineties, and that the recent incantation of the trail was so popular that…
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