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BV NEMBA Holiday Food Drive

Date

12/12/21 9:00am to 1:00pm

Food for Fun Charity Ride

River Bend Farm and Visitor Center Uxbridge

We're holding a charity ride to collect goods for the Worcester County Food Bank.

In exchange for bringing 4 canned or boxed goods (no frozen, fresh or glass goods, see link for suggestions: https://foodbank.org/.../Food-Drive-Requested-Donations.pdf) you'll be able to enjoy marked loops on Goat Hill and around River Bend Farm.

Snacks for the participants will be provided.

   Be sure to sign the NEMBA Annual Waiver if you haven't already done so.

Let's show our appetite to help those around us! 

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Chapter

Blackstone Valley

Event Leader

Laura Zimmer
lzimmer@nemba.org

Wachusett NEMBA Trail Day @ Trout Brook

Date

11/13/21 9:00am

Holden Trail Day

Trout Brook Reservation

Saturday November 13th 

9:00 Am - 1:00 Pm

 

Flooding has made Trout Brook's (blue) Bob Elms Trail unusable for years. Wachusett NEMBA has gained permission from the Town of Holden to make the Bob Elms trail useable for everyone. This year we will reroute the trail around the muddiest sections and next year we plan to build a bridge over Ball Brook.

A trail work day is planned for Saturday, November 13th from 9-1pm with a ride around Trout Brook for anyone who can stay afterwards. The goals are to:

  1. Turn a path that people have already begun to use into a permanent route for the Bob Elms trail. This will involve raking, pruning, moving rocks, and building some short bog bridges.
  2. Closing down the old section of Bob Elms by blocking it with natural barriers and removing rickety structures people have placed over the wettest section.


We’d love your help returning the Bob Elms trail to a functional state so that riders and others can enjoy it. If we need more tools we'll put the word out, but for now plan to being a pair of work gloves. Parking will be on the North St lot. This is a small lot so if you can carpool with others that would be great. Hope to see you there!


Holden Working Group - Wachusett NEMBA

First, if you haven't already done so sign NEMBA's annual waiver then signup here

You don't have to be a NEMBA member to attend.

You just have to want to make our trails better.

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Chapter

Wachusett

Trail

Trout Brook, Holden

Event Leader

Mike Wilander
mkwilander@gmail.com

BV NEMBA Chapter Meeting

Date

11/8/21 6:00pm

 Blackstone Valley NEMBA Chapter Meeting

CraftRoots Brewing

For  · NEMBA members and non-members. You don't have to be a member to attend.

Chapter Meeting at CraftRoots Brewing.

Come hear about the latest in mountain biking in the Blackstone Valley and talk bikes.

Socializing at 6:00
Meeting starts at 6:30

Chapter will provide food.

Cash bar.
If you'd like to discuss a particular topic, please contact Laura, lzimmer@nemba,org, or the Blackstone Valley NEMBA Facebook page so we can add it to the agenda.

Chapter Meeting Agenda

Monday November 8th, 2021 6:30 PM
Craftroots Brewery, located at 4 Industrial Drive, Milford MA. 01754

Call the Meeting to Order 6:30 PM
Approve last meetings minutes.
Approve last meetings treasurers report

Treasurer’s Report

Trail Work Updates
West Hill Dam
Callahan
Nobscot
Douglas

Trailforks Guru, Bruce Rioux

VLMC, Kevin Keenan
Vietnam Report

Ride Series Update

Best Dam Ride Ride Recap

New Business & Updates

Meeting Adjournes 

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Chapter

Blackstone Valley

Event Leader

lzimmer@nemba.org

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MacAllum WMA, Westborough

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218 Milk St
Westborough  Massachusetts  01581
United States

Easy

80%

Moderate

15%

Difficult

5%

Description

The Wayne F. MacAllum Wildlife Management Area in Westborough is a 900 acre property in the town of Westborough.

There are about 18 miles of trails there. 

Unusual for this area the trails are mostly flat and relatively rock free. Which makes it a perfect place for family rides or to introduce newer riders to the sport.

In the winter it's a great place to corss country ski.

Many of the trails offer scenic views of lakes and fields. While others dive deep into the woods.

A few trails, notably the ones surrounding the feed lots get overgrown by mid summer.

During Massachusett hunting season the the WMA sees a lot of hunters.

  It shoud be noted that Massachusetts does not allow hunting on Sundays.

You'll spend a lot of time exploring MacAllum's mellow trails. And you will be back.

 

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Local Shops

Landrys

Local Eats

Mass Wildlife

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Cormier Woods

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217 Chapin St
Uxbridge  Massachusetts  01569
United States

Easy

35%

Moderate

50%

Difficult

15%

Description

Cormier Woods: Taken from the Trustees Page.

Cormier Woods lies within the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, a designated area extending from Worcester to Providence that celebrates the historical and cultural importance of the river, the birthplace of America’s Industrial Revolution. Easy-to-moderate intensity trails wind through open meadow and along stone walls, opening up a quintessential 1800s New England agricultural landscape and small-scale farmstead, replete with an historic house, barn, and a blueberry patch that ripens in late summer.

Cormier Woods abuts the Mendon Town Forest. The trails here offer a break from the more technically difficult Town Forest trails. Read more about [node:title]

Local Shops

Milford Bicycle

Steve The Bike Guy

Links to Relevant Resources

The Trustees of Reservations

BV NEMBA Trail Day @ Cormier Woods

Date

9/18/21 (All day)

We will be constructing a bench cut around an eroded fall line trail on the Albee loop at Cormier Woods in Uxbridge.

Pick and shovel work will be required.

Meet at the Cormier Woods parking lot (248 Chapin St, Uxbridge) at 9 AM.

Tools will be supplied but bring work gloves.

You do not have to be a member of NEMBA to attend. But everone must sign NEMBA's annual waiver.

 

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Chapter

Blackstone Valley

Event Leader

Bill Dakai
bill.dakai2@gmail.com

BV NEMBA Chapter Meeting

Date

8/9/21 6:30pm

Blackstone Valley NEMBA Summer Chapter Meeting

By Blackstone Valley NEMBA

A decision has been made to move the meeting to an online event to hopefully allow more people to participate.

We won't give up on in person meetings but it seems things aren't quite back to normal yet.
The Zoom link for the meeting is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9432259077
If there is a topic you would like on the agenda please message  .

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Chapter

Blackstone Valley

Event Leader

Laura Zimmer
lzimmer@nrmba.org

BV NEMBA West Hill Dam Ride Newbie Ride

Event Date

8/29/21 9:00am

BV NEMBA Newbie Rides

Event by Blackstone Valley NEMBA

West Hill Dam

Time: 9:00 AM

Duration: 2 hr

For  · NEMBA Members and non-members.  (But everyone must have signed NEMBA's Annual Waiver.)

The third of our monthly newbie ride series is coming up.

If you’re NEW to mountain biking or NEW to the Blackstone Valley chapter we’re putting together a monthly NEWbie ride for you at West Hill Dam in Uxbridge.

The ride will primarily be aimed at beginner riders but depending on the ratio of ride leaders to riders we may be able to accommodate other levels.

The total numbers of riders will be capped at 10 to allow for a better experience and to not overrun WHD with mountain bikers.
       Further details and sign up are on tis Facebook Page.

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Chapter

Blackstone Valley

State

Massachusetts

Ride Level

Beginner
Novice
Advanced-novice

Ride Style

XC

Ride Leader Name

Laura Zimmer
lzimmer@nemba.org

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