We need Content!

We are looking for some fresh content to up-date the Favorite Trails page and the Pictures page.

Without new content these pages have become stale.

Please submit Favorite trails articles and pictures to Jim Grill at this e-mail address:

jagrill@hotmail.com

Pat Sprouse down south

Duke Trevino
Mission Ridge trail

Lake Sawyer Update

Ralph Lowen recently attended a community open house  in Black Diamond hosted by the
Yarrow Bay Group. As you may have heard YBG are well-financed developers
buying big land parcels in Black Diamond. They now own about half of the property in Black Diamond plus some parcels they want annexed to Black Diamond. One of the pieces they recently purchased includes the Toy Stump trail and the Bridges trail plus the area along Hwy 169 north of the coal car gate. The good news is that it will take some time for anything to happen with that area. The "Toy Stump/Bridges" parcel is is the smallest piece of land they have purchased. YBG is focusing its first efforts on a large parcel roughly SE of the Mexican restaurant. While we may eventually lose some of the trails noted above the new development will have large public permanent open space set aside and preserved just like Henry's Ridge.

So there could easily be more trails in places we never imagined. One bonus
is that the YBG project manager in Black Diamond is a mountain biker and
seems interested in trails. Peter Fisher of Black Diamond Bike even took him out for a ride on some of the trails near the shop. This is admittedly not much but has to be better than dealing with someone who has no interest in the outdoors or trails.

Also the City of Black Diamond is holding a planning session concerning the park land at the south end of Lake Sawyer. Ralph will be attending the planning session or charette as they call it. Hopefully Ralph can advance the interests of mountain bikers in any plans for the the park.