Appalachian Mountain Bike Club

Meeting 1/25/21

January 2021!!! WELCOME

1^st and foremost it’s President Donovan’s 1^st meeting AND her Birthday!!!

Side note, it’s also past AMBC President Brian Hanns Birthday!!!

Trail reports:

Trail conditions are typical for East TN this time of the year! Wet and variable

Wet Weather Reminders: Great options include: Baker Creek Bike Park, Marie Myers via Redbud Crest, Sharps Ridge, Loyston, Norris, and Big South Fork.

Take a look at our website for trail conditions!

Weather Report:

Dave Stanley reported that we’re drier than usual but that the cycle of precipitation has timed itself perfectly to be continually soggy. Be mindful of your trail choices!

The Knoxville Track Club presented the club with a check for $3046.75!!!

KTC Longtime partners, presented a check from part of their proceeds from their popular Trail Running Series!

Remember – trails have many users! Runners, walkers, even a few riders – use the trails with respect for all!

Work Project Recaps:

Independent Workdays and Small Projects

Work Completed:

• Randy Conner with Contour Trail Design and AMBC tackled “The Tree”
• Alex with Knoxville Outdoor Tours cleared a number of Snags in south Knoxville
• Bentley Brackett with Elemental Design Co. also cleared a few snags
• AMBC Staff builder Dave Williams has been busy on the top of Red Bud Crest!
• Vinnie has put in some hour at Lippincott
• Tony worked on trails out at Concord – Thanks for all the hard work!

Events:

Small Groups : Small projects — All limited to 10 folks / project Signup are live on our events calendar.

• This Saturday 1/30 9-noon 2 options
  • Burnett Creek Road Trash Cleanup
  • Mayor Hot Tub trail work (hand building singletrack)
• Not us but lend a hand CVTA Norris work day 10-1 check their site.
• AMBC will present at PechaKucha 11^th live from the Bijou. The format is 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each, should be lively, wish Kellogg some luck.
• Leslie King with Catalyst Sports reported on their aMTB (adaptive) training March 27-28
• Trail Counter Updates
  • Direct Observation Training – March 27th or 28th (2 Hour Training outdoors) Going to need 16 folks! We’ll launch a Golden Volunteer event for this. UTK will have around 40 folks helping.

News:

• Talking with Albright Grove about some beer – stay tuned
• Brian Hann with the Trail Committee will be recruiting Trail Crew Leaders for the 2021 trail building and maintaining season – again – stay tuned
• We’re now webcasting the meetings to YouTube and with some luck we may add a Zoom meeting component.

See you for the next meeting February 22^nd 2021