On the Trail with IMBA

Jason and I headed over to the Northwest School of Freeride located just East of Sandy Oregon earlier in the week to meet with the School’s Principal and Vice Principal Kris “Jaymo” Jamieson and Sam Pinner. If my school principal’s office had been this cool I probably would have made more effort to get in there! We had a great time riding the skate park, dirt jumps, freeride lines and pump track while enjoying the opportunity to watch some of the worlds best riders tossing themselves into the air. Here are some photos from our afternoon at the NWSOF.

Tree plant.

Jason and Jaymo “working”.

Jaymo on the Boyko drop.

Jaymo hitting the hip just after the Boyko drop. NO BRAKES!

We had a great day hanging out with these guys, sharing ideas and discussing possible partnerships. The North West School of Freeride needs to be added to your list of rediculously fun places to ride when your in Oregon. It’s only about a 30 minute drive from Portland and there is something for everybody from beginner dirt jumps, to daul slalom, to concrete skate park riding, to foam pit hucking, to gigantic drops and big big gaps. Go there. And for more information, go here: http://nwsof.com/wp/

We’ve been going through a lot of our photos from the past several months and thought that we would share some of the ones that make us smile. Enjoy!

-Kelly and Collins
Subaru-IMBA Trail Care Crew

Driving to Boulder.  20 hours of monotony with 10 seconds of pure terror - Dust storm near the KS/CO border

Sedona, AZ

Bret Waldron ruling the Black Canyon trails during an epic death march for the ages - near Black Canyon City, AZ

Collins at the IMBA-SORBA weekend for the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area - Atlanta, GA

Couldn’t be said any better - Atlanta, GA

100% pure, sweet new singletrack - Chief Logan State Park, WV

His name is Rowdy and he rips - Santos Pump Tack, Ocala, FL

Headed East - Texas

IMBA Trail Solutions is busy crafting new trails in the recently created Hanson-Larsen Memorial Park in Rapid City, South Dakota. Major credit goes to all the contributors, partners, fellow pro trailbuilders, and especially the volunteers from the Black Hills Mountain Bike Association. Here’s some sweet construction photos from IMBA trail guys Joey Klein and Jason Wells. Stay tuned for more trail news on this developing system!

Here are some shots from the Eagle Bike Park near Boise ID. It’s a great place to ride with tons of options, great design, and well built features. I love going to a Bike Park that’s got something for everyone I know to ride, learn and challenge themselves with and that’s exactly what you get at the Eagle Bike Park. We had a great time despite the rain. After a long time sitting in the parking lot waiting for the dirt to dry we finally got a chance to ride the pump track and a couple of the jump lines.

Miles’ shiny bike… he was even nice enough to share.

Anna in the pump track, huff, huff.

Warm up on the beginner tables.

Miles on the pro/expert line.

Once again, we joined mountain bikers from around the world at Laguna Seca as they crawled out from under their winter rocks, dusted off their bikes and enjoyed the good times that always come with the Sea Otter Classic. It was the first sunny and warm Sea Otter for many attendees and we were so happy to have the good weather for a change!

As always we had a TON of awesome visitors at the IMBA Booth throughout the weekend and pulled in piles of new memebers and new stories. Here we are setting it all up on Friday morning with the help of some fantastic volunteers.

One of this years hot items was this sweet Better Trails For All pint glass. The perfect vessel for a tasty beverage.

We were also psyched to host the World Premiere of the film Freedom Riders which was a huge hit. The incredible industry support was also great! Thanks to Crank Brothers we were able to put these blingy wheels up for auction and many more companies stepped up to help us with the raffle and silent auction at the show!