GPS - New Krug Loop

Here's a gps image of the new Krug loop.
Garmin puts it at 6.56 miles

RIDE KRUG!!

Everyone needs to get out and try the "new" Krug! I rode the entire loop today, it was soft but still fun. We need to get everyone out to enjoy the fruits of a few peoples labor! CH, RT, DC and any others who have put time in at Krug, "THANK YOU"!
Everyone needs to get out and try the "new" Krug! (did I already mention that?) The sooner we get these trails packed down the more people are going to love it and ride it.

CH,
If you were riding today, I hope you enjoyed the web free trails! I ate a bunch of the little furry creepy crawlies for you.

Krug, RIP & Tour of MO

OK, I fully intended to boycott the blog (take my ball and go home) because of the verbal abuse that I was taking about this whole weed-eating fiasco... After all, I am a sensitive fellow ;)_
Well, I did take a bit of an excursion out to Krug over the weekend to kill some time (avoid panting my house) and HOLY CRAP!!! If I was feeling a bit guilty for not putting my time behind a power-tool lately before I saw what all has been done, I sure as hell feel guilty now...
I was dumbfounded by the amount of work that has been done over there, you can't really comprehend it until you get out there and ride it... Awesome!!!!
I particularly like the creek crossings! It flows great, can't Wait to feel the burn while flying through there when there is some hard packed singletrack...
I did get a bit mixed up on top of the park around the "pine tree forest" area, so I never quite made it out where I was supposed to. But anyway, I just wanted to say bravo, nicely done, it looks wonderful...

On another note, RIP (Rapture in Misery) is August 15th, and will be here before you know it. I suggest getting as much saddle time in right now.. Its better to kick your own ass before the race than during! Which will probably be the case anyway, just a suggestion...

Owe, also, for those of you that care, the Tour of Missouri is back ON!!!

One more thing, Ed, I hear the kids bike races were awesome!!

The ToM is an economic boon to the state and our cities...it would be sad to lose it. For those interested, please read the letter below from the Lt. Gov.


Friends,

By now, some of you may have heard rumors regarding Gov. Nixon freezing state funds for the 2009 Tour of Missouri. I would like to share with you the details that we currently have:

On Wednesday, at the close of business, I was informed by the Division of Tourism that the money set aside for the Tour of Missouri was frozen by Gov. Nixon's administration. The state's commitment for the 2009 Tour of Missouri was $1.5 million. Without these funds, which are available and approved by the Tourism Commission, the Tour of Missouri will cease to exist.

At this time, I have requested a special meeting of the Missouri Tourism Commission to evaluate our options and decide what our next step should be.

As you know, we are very close to putting the final touches on the race this year. Our sponsors have invested and we are on track with our fundraising goals. Teams from across the world, the same teams now racing in the Tour de France, have been invited to our state, and communities across Missouri are making great preparations for the race. Contracts have been signed by the state, cities, sponsors and vendors and cutting this funding will leave the state susceptible to wasteful litigation.

Right now, I am urging cycling fans across our great state, and around the world to contact Gov. Jay Nixon at 573-751-3222and tell him to release the funding for the largest sporting event ever held in our state.

I am grateful for the supporters, sponsors, volunteers and spectators who in the past two years have helped generate nearly $60 million in economic impact for our state, and brought over 800,000 visitors to the race.

With your help, I truly believe we can ensure the survival and success of the 2009 Tour of Missouri.

Sincerely,
PeterKinder
PETER D. KINDER
Lt. Governor, Chairman of the Missouri Tourism Commission

Call Gov. Jay Nixon at 573-751-3222 and tell him to save our race!

Kids Tour of St. Joseph

For anyone willing to help and/or bring your kids out to ride, the first Stage of the Kids Tour is this Saturday (July 11) at Hyde Park. Registration starts at 9, rides start at 10:00. All participants receive an award medal and there will be drawings for prizes. The course consists primarily of one loop around the entire sidewalk path.

We'd love to see as much support and presence as possible from the local biking community. Volunteer work will consist mainly of course marshals around the sidewalk throughout the park. Thus most volunteers will be free to leave after the kids finish their rides... likely around 11:00.

Call me (816) 271-4671 if you'd like more info or visit the City's website at www.stjoemo.info
Thanks gang.

THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY!!!!!

Randy, David and I are planning to do some more weedeating at Krug this Saturday morning from about 6 am to around 10 am. If we could get three more people to help out, we could work in three tandems of two and really get through a good amount of trail. Should be nice and cool in the morning.
Please post a comment on this blog if you can help out.
Thanks,
CH

In the flippen 80’s, can you believe it?

Got back from the lake on Sunday, completely panning on doing absolutely nothing.. Damn, its absolutely perfect outside.. Cant waist a day like this, got the ok from the boss, aka. Wife, and out the door!
The trials are great! I pity anyone who did not get their A$$ out there to enjoy it (insert countless remarks about how your all dehydrated from weedeeting here).. Looks like its supposed to be this way all week.. Take advantage man, take advantage. Yes, spiders are coming out, but don’t be a bloody wanker!

Thank you fellas! (Hippy, Crook) for your work, as always, yes I am a lazy loser and we are ALL lucky to have you guys out there working. Hoppy too, if he does not intend to say in Mexico..

Thanks for weedeating!

When the hell is Lansen coming back, we miss your posts dude!?!?

Tired of that post.....

Better get out and ride before the spiders come out... Then its you first through the trail...
Its hot as hell, but the trails are nice right now..

More on Krug

More weedeating at Krug was done this week. Randy and Lance made it through the newly re-routed shorter switchbacks that now tie into the new outlet of the tree house trail. They also made it further down the trail to the new connection to the center trail that runs parrallel to the old climb that tops out at the boulders. This trail then comes back down that same hill and re-crossess the rode and ties into the remaining lower section of the trail that ends at the waterfall. This has all been weed eated now and can be ridden (although some benchcutting still needs to be done) Randy also spent several hours cutting back the majorly over grown section of this existing trail about a hundred yards or so before the waterfall.
The new loop will not cross the creek anymore by the waterfall but will instead run parallel to the creek, bypass the old start of the bridges trail and also bypass the old start of the red bridge trail before it takes off to the right on the new bottom switchback trail. This trail will tie into the remaining switchbacks that make their way to the top of the hill. All of these switchbacks have been extended in length where they used to tie into old downhill trail. After these switchbacks finally come out on the upper portion of the hill, the trail will meander back down and re-cross the old down hill trail twice and eventually pop out onto the old red bridge trail. The red bridge trail will terminate at the end of the old bridges trail which will now become the start of the bridges trail. The bridges trail will come out at the top of the old washed out climbs above the waterfall where this will all tie into the re-routed trails in the pine forest area.
Right now the new loop can be ridden all the way to the waterfall as weedeating has been completed to this point. Technically the switchbacks after this section can also be ridden as I spent several nights last week "rough" weedeating these from bottom to top and back down to the red bridge trail to kind of re-layout the trail as the new switchback tie ins had become extremely overgrown from this winters rough cutting and were difficult to see. These sections still need to be finish weedeated but at least we can now tell where the trail is going.
If you have a little additional time after say riding the GSC, pop on over to Krug and ride some of the new stuff. Really need to start getting some traffic on it to get things firmed up.
CH

Krug Progress Update

On Sunday Randy, Dave and I weedeated the new trail head section on the north side of the back parking lot at Krug. We then went over and hit the new section of trail that goes around the open field and back up the south side of the parking lot and eventually makes its way over to the gravel downhill by the animal pens. This trail ties into the old trail that (for those of you that remember) used to have the log jump on it and eventually ties into the tree house trail.
Tonight I went back and re-rough cut in an additional switchback trail to rectify what we lost due to the "misplacement" of the boulders. This portion of the trail contains several short switchbacks and is now ready to be weedeated. Once this is done it will tie together the trailhead section and the section to the south so that we can at least start riding these sections to get over to the treehouse trail. This is pretty much all new trail so it will be pretty soft to start but should firm up fairly quickly if we can get people to come up and start riding it.
Also, as was written in a previous post, the new trails above the waterfall have been weedeated and can be ridden also.
Still lots of work to be done but we are making progress.
CH

Landahl

Well guys sorry I didn't make it out this weekend for trailwork. I already had plans to meet my brother and do some out of town riding. Thought I would post some photos for those of u interested in riding at Landahl. The trails are great, just a little muddy in certain sections. I'm all for the adoption of trails as mentioned before. We need to have a group meeting sometime to intiate this process. Any suggestions?

the weedeating continues...

I'm gonna hit the girlscout camp sat morning early and try to finish it up. Anyone else up for it? I have 2 extra heavyduty husqy trimmers, string, gas, etc... The earlier we start the earlier we'll be done. I'll be out around 6:30 am.

Another thing, it has been suggested multi times to assign sections of trail to a certain person. If they get weedy, then it is the assigned's responsibility to gwet em into shape. If you want to be a part of this, please comment below and we'll get together and divvy out areas. The trail fairy is getting tired and needs our help.

Remember: if you have time to ride, you have time to help with the maintainence of where you ride. The trail hippie

Krug Progress

Just wanted to post a few pics of the new stuff on the back side of Krug. Weedeating has been done on the new re-route of the rooted out "long climb" section and also through the new switchback sections in the pine forest area. Made it to the last switchback at the bottom of this section when I sheared the head attachment bolt in the new trimmer (guess I should have bought the Stihl!) Still have alot to do up there but if your curious you can go ride this new section (although it could stand to be hit with a blower). Also heard what sounded like another trimmer going somewhere up there when I was leaving. That's awesome if someone was up there working on some of the other sections too! Should be a blast when we get it all completed!

CH

Krug & Gen....

Got a sneek peek at what Krug is going to look like when finished. Hoppy took Randy and I out to see what it looks like after a little weed eatin lovin, and let me tell you its going to be a blast when it gets up and going...

Weather can't get any better for riding! Trails are very nice... Thanks for all the hard work fellas...

Planning on a little ride Wed. eve if anyone is intersted: think Hoppy and maybe Lansen are in..

GCS/ Brownie Trails

Well Randy and I have put a good dent into GSC. I worked today on GSC and completed Brownie trail with loppers and trimming as well. The trails are perfect despite all the rain we got. I have included a few pics of how it looked after all the hard work. I might get out Sunday for a ride/tree trimming ride.

a coupla riddles and some (new?) info

For all you Midwesterners out there...what's knee high by the 4th of July? That's right, it's corn. Now, what the #$%%$# is knee high now? That's right...the stinging nettles!

Now for the helpful stuff. The bike shop has moved to the Kirkpatrick building down at 7th and Francis or thereabouts. This is important knowledge because all of the powertools for our trailbuilding and maintainence that have been bought with donations are just sitting at said bikeshop. There is string for the trimmers and oil for the 2 stroke stuff. If you have your own stuff, great. If not, this stuff is for our use.

I look at it as if you have time to ride, you have time to do a little maintainence on the trails. The trail fairies that come out at night and do the work are getting tired. Give em a hand! hippie

THANKS!!!

Just wanted to thank everyone who has been helping out with the weedeating.
Looks like "Tundra Twins" (Randy and Brian) were out on the GSC and Brownie today. The trails are really shaping up nicely. Appreciate all the effort guys.
CH

Monday eve ride...

Headed out with the speedy twins, Lansen and Hoppy. Good lord, I tell you they are from Norwegian Cross-country stock (Two of you are probably going to get that)… Anyway, it was a wonderful eve of riding and the trails are sweeeeeeet!

Saw a ton of new faces out there, which is down right awesome.. Hey, fellas (maybe a lady or so too), on this site, don’t be bashful now, I know we don’t hear from ya much… I know the Trail-Hippy is kinda scary at first, but he aint nothing but a big ole teddy bear…

Crowder

Randy, Hoppy, Lansen and I (Jason) had some good riding out at Crowder (well, kinda). Apparently, being the geniuses we are it rained quite a bit more up in Trenton than it did down here, as it was slow goings virtually the entire time. Had to walk the bikes quite a bit.
Some parts as you can see were very wet..

Its such a nice trail system, it would have been nice if it were dry. Did I mention it was reaaaly muddy?
Some of us enjoyed the mud more than others!

Well we did not drive all that way for nothing, so we did get a couple of good hours of riding in, felt it a bit today.. Towards the end of the ride, we found some dryish riding, all and all it was still a blast...

Look, its not only me that Randy has to fix!! Here he is taking care of Mr. Speedy aka Hoppy…

Crowder - This Saturday (May 9)

Who's all up for the trip to Crowder this Saturday that RT was asking about?
Leave St. Joe around 8:00 am?