Night ride season is no longer in effect but MORCA still rides every Wednesday evening at 6 PM from 8th Avenue and Gigling Road (see link below for map). Ride must leave BLM lands by half an hour after sunset.
Ride will be a no drop group ride with leader and sweep. You must be self supported with properly functioning equipment to join the ride.
Helmets are required!!!
Continuing our celebration of #NationalVolunteerMonth!
The Monterey Off Road Cycling Association (MORCA) has been actively volunteering at Fort Ord National Monument since 2009. They currently have around 30 active members, and 20 of them regularly participate in monthly trail work days. At one of these monthly trail days they reached out to local mountain bike teams and had 41 volunteers, many of whom were from the Salinas High School Mountain Bike Team. Throughout the year BLM works with Salinas High, Palma School and the Monterey Lightfighters mountain bike teams. These opportunities for local student athletes give them a chance to learn what it takes to build and maintain magnificent trails that they get to ride and race on throughout the year.
Over the past year MORCA volunteers have completed 1,020 hours of trail work at Fort Ord, and this total does not include the time spent planning and coordinating trail work. This work was done during monthly days with 88 different individuals. The have rerouted, restored and maintained 18 of BLM's 72 trails, or 25% of the single track trails, making them more sustainable for riders at Fort Ord.
It is very safe to say that without the work of MORCA the trails at Fort Ord would not be what they are today! Happy riding.
Stop by and say “hello” at Booth 243. Enter raffle for either a bike rack or a fox fork. 100% proceeds go to our Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day event.
MORCA preserves a little piece of history.
Protecting Trails for Monterey and Sea Otter | IMBA
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How IMBA and the local chapter protected places to ride in the Fort Ord National Monument