Merrimack Valley Chapter
Welcome to our the web site for the Merrimack Valley Chapter of NEMBA, New England Mountain Bike Association. We will keep this site up to date with breaking news on rides, events and trail maintenance issues. We welcome any feedback from you that can make this site even better.
Norman Blanchette
MV NEMBA
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Weekly Ride Series Returns
The trails are ready to ride
Tuesday evenings has traditionally been set aside for the weekly show and go rides and this year is no different. We'll be starting up the weekly ride schedule this Tuesday April the 8th, at the Lowell Dracut Tyngsboro State Forest. The trails are dry and good to go. 
Park at the Trotting Park Road lot in Lowell off of Varnum Ave. Start time is usually ~5:00 for the early riders with a return to the parking lot at ~5:30 to pick up the 2nd wave.
These rides are at an intermediate pace with stops to regroup. Nobody gets left behind. The rides are cross country in nature with plenty of opportunities to play on the rocks. Come on out and join us. 
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We may end up with close to 4 miles of new singletrack on top of the existing trails that are already out there. This is still a work in progress and we want to keep things out there under wraps a bit until we get the trails and the signage under control. Our next trail day for MV will be on Saturday June the 21st.
Merrimack Valley has a schedule submitted with the DCR in Carlisle for 6 trail days for 2008. We'll be sitting down shortly with them to go over our wish list. As soon as that is completed I'll post that information and get the word out. Look for trail work in Dracut, Lowell, Tyngsboro, Chelmsford, Carlisle and ???
Thanks again for all who came out to help last year. We had a total of 40 volunteers contributing a total of 200 hours. All those hours were spent in the Lowell Dracut Tyngsboro state forest with the exception of about 40 hours spent at Great Brook Farm last September.
Our relationship with our new contacts at the DCR continues to move forward. They have become more confident with us and may be willing to approve bigger and more productive projects. Hopefully we'll see the fruits of that relationship pay off in the new year to come. Meanwhile we will continue to stay ahead of any issues involving our access to the local trail system. The bottom line is to keep the trails safe, clean, open and user friendly with a heavy dose of the fun factor.
Directions
TREK / Trail Care Series Schedule for 2008
June 21st - Saturday
July 26th - Saturday
August 24th - Sunday
October 19th - Sunday
All Trail days start at 8 AM unless notified otherwise.
