Cold Springs Trail Work and Ride
Another dusty trail day! We had 16 people help work on Upper Cold Springs Trail. The first mile was brushed by a hired crew the week before, so we just did dirt work and rebenched to open it up and…
Blood Road Film Night
We've all experienced one of those days where a bike ride meant more than just that. For Rebecca Rusch, it was a journey of self-discovery and searching for a place where her father was shot down in Laos 40 years…
July Trail Work at Elings Park
Donn Longstreet led a crew of 10 volunteers in cleaning up some of the narrowed single track at Elings Park in preparation for their Semana Nautica race on July 4th. We worked on the south facing slope to rebench and…
Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day June 2016 (#TKMBD)
A little bit late in posting this post-event write-up, but better late than never! First off, a huge thanks and kudos goes out to Jason Moore for organizing and staffing the entire event! So if you are at all familiar with…
Central Coast Trail Stewardship Summit
Trail stewards and land managers gathered in Santa Barbara February 19th to 21 to participate in the Central Coast Trail Stewardship Summit for Multi-Use Trails. The summit was organized by Chris Orr, locally based trail advocate and International Mountain Biking…
Tequepis Roundup
The day started off with a slight chill and ended with a slight rain. Other than the "wintery" weather that we have grown accustomed to NOT having in Santa Barbara, the day was beautiful and lots of work got done. We…
National Public Lands Day Roundup
One word describes today: HOT. The weather was not our friend today. Even at our meeting time of 9 am the mercury was already rising. Our other friend the black flies were only too happy to greet us as well.…
National Public Lands Day (Cold Springs!!!)
Celebrate September 26th's National Public Lands Day with a volunteer trail work event in Santa Barbara! This year Santa Barbara's Front Country Trails Program (Forest Service, County, and City) and local trail maintenance organizations (SBMTV!) will be hosting a volunteer…
July 12th San Ysidro Trail Work Total Success
We had about 15 hearty souls who showed up for this ride and work event. Two "old school" BOB trailers were used to bring larger tools down the trail. Mostly packable trail bosses and loppers were carried down the trail…
New Bike Bells!
SBMTV volunteers from ages 6 - 60 met up at Rusty's pizza last Wednesday. Fueled by pizza, firestone dba, bark's rootbeer and the latest MTB bike movies... volunteers cranked out a mountain of new bells. Why do we do it? Over…