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Let’s take advantage of this great weather and hit the trails before the Creekathon!!! Woot!!! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and move to more advanced terrain based on the level of the group.   This trip is for bikers who have had little to no …

Happy Spring! Let’s shred some serious singletrack on Saturday! Sherando has some of the best trail systems in the region making it a fantastic mountain biking spot! With some super brutal climbs, gnarly rock gardens, ample creek crossings, gorgeous vistas and most importantly, sweet sweet downhills, this route is one of my favorites around. We’ll be taking a loop that …

Hey Kiddos! Are you an intermediate mountain biker who wants to learn how to lead beginner biking trips at Walnut Creek? Are you an intermediate rider who wants to go for a ride at Walnut Creek? Then let’s hit the trails this Friday! We’ll begin the ride by reviewing what you should say/know/be able to do for a beginner trip, …

Spring has sprung so it’s about time to start shredding that dirt! What better way to spend a Friday afternoon than joyriding at Walnut Creek Park? That’s right, the answer is no way! With almost 15 miles of technical singletrack to play on, there will be plenty of routes and variety to keep it interesting. The club has 8 beastly …

Come explore with me fellow mountain bikers! I’ve never biked this section of the GW National Forest but have heard good things about it. According to “Mountain Bike Virginia” by Randy Porter this 17 mile loop offers considerable aerobic difficulty and it’s technical difficulty ranges from “unobstructed double-track for the first half” to “rocky, technical single-track on the return trip.” …

Tomorrow’s weather is supposed to be 60 high (Bit odd for an end of November weather). I plan on getting on the Rivanna Trail from behind the Slaughter Gym, do the entire loop (about 20 mi) clockwise except the O’Hill portion. If you haven’t been, you can learn the trail and get on it on your own later! We will …

Let’s hit the trails before we chow down at the Creekathon!!!! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No MTB experience is necessary, you just need to know how …

This ride is one of my favorites in VA and is considered one of the best climbs in the state, and because it’s a loop it also has an excellent down hill section. This 21 mile loop starts on FS road 42 at 1,595′ elevation, and takes you up to the top of Bald Mountain (3,587′) via a mile long …

Boo-hoo- Halloween will be over, but we can still get some sweet rides in!!! Walnut Creek has a some great loops, so we’ll start off with a nice warm up and then head out to some slightly more challenging terrain.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.   This trip is not recommended for beginner MTBers.  The club …

BOO! Let’s hit the trails before the night gets spooky! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No MTB experience is necessary, you just need to know how to …

I can’t think of a better way to spend Halloween day than shredding the trails on our very own backyard! Loaded with a vast network of trails, O-Hill is a fantastic place to enjoy an afternoon of super great single-track. I have labeled this trip intermediate as it may behoove you to have riding experience, but it is not necessary …

The Freedom Riders are an awesome group of MTB enthusiasts from Jackson Hole, WY.  When officials banned trails in Teton Pass forests, this group of bikers banded together to work with the US Forest Service to build the first-ever downhill specific mountain bike trail on Forest Service land in history! This film relates the Freedom Riders’ tale of persistence, while …

Let’s take advantage of this great weather and hit the trails! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No MTB experience is necessary, you just need to know how …

Let’s take advantage of this great weather and hit the trails! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and move to more advanced terrain based on the level of the group.  This trip is for bikers who have had little to no experience on a mountain bike …

Got Mountain Biking? Let’s hit the trails!!!! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No MTB experience is necessary, you just need to know how to ride a bike …

Let’s burn some (more) calories after that big afternoon BBQ and get in some trail time! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No MTB experience is necessary, you …

Let’s burn some calories before that big afternoon BBQ and get in some trail time! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No MTB experience is necessary, you just …

Got Mountain Biking? Let’s hit the trails!!! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and move to some tougher terrain.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.   Experience IS necessary- this trip is for bikers who have been on a mountain biking trip before …

Let’s take advantage of this great weather and hit the trails…again! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No experience is necessary, you just need to know how to …

Let’s take advantage of this great weather and hit the trails! Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is.  The park is about 20 minutes south of UVA.  No MTB experience is necessary, you just need to know how …

Weather pending, we can go out for some biking before, or during the start of the creekathon, and get out on some of the intermediate and advanced trails. By no means do you need to be an expert for this trip, I anticipate having to hike up some of the inclines myself (kudos if you don’t have to), but you …

Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is. No experience is necessary, you just need to know how to ride a bike and be open to trying something new. We will not ride anything that anyone does not feel …

Walnut Creek has a great beginner loop and more advanced trails depending on skill level, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is. The park is about 20 minutes south. No experience is necessary, you just need to know how to ride a bike and be open to trying something new. We will not …

Once today’s rain clears up, it should be warm and sunny through the weekend. By Sunday, the trails at Sherando will be great and we can shake the winter cobwebs from our legs in the sunshine. Sherando has miles of single track that we can play on all afternoon. It’s more technical than Walnut Creek, so make sure you’re comfortable …

Thursday weather is supposed to be in the 60s! I would love to go for a bike ride starting at O’hill then get on Rivanna Trail towards Barracks Rd. If you don’t already know, Rivanna Trail is a 20-mile loop single lane running/walking/biking trail. We will just ride out towards Barracks Rd and come back. We will be going at …

Hey everyone! Now that the weather is finally getting a little warmer who is up for some mountain biking? Not that we don’t all love skiing and snowboarding, but I would rather not freeze my toes off every weekend thank you very much. For those who feel like me I’ll be leading a mountain biking trip to Walnut on Friday …

The Rivanna Trail Foundation preserves a green belt circling the entire city of Charlottesville. Part of the preservation effort is a 20 mile loop of trails following the Rivanna River, Moore’s Creek, and Meadow Creek. We’ll start the ride from mile marker 0 down at Riverview Park and ride more than halfway around the loop to Fontaine Ave. In addition …

Lets get out and ride while the weather is fantastic and there’s still daylight in the after-work hours. For a change of pace (quite literally) this adventure will be for intermediate riders as we will ride some of the more difficult trails at O-hill and at a faster pace than done on beginner rides. You don’t have to be super …

Walnut Creek Park (WCP) is one of the best places to mountain bike in central VA, and its only 10 miles south of town. Besides the miles of excellent single track, it offers a lake with a beach for swimming, several places to grill, and an 18 hole disc golf course (and for future reference, the club has discs). We’ll …

The Sherando lake trail loop is probably one of the most exciting mountain bike rides around. Lots of climbing in the beginning, but then you get the reward of a sweet five mile downhill. For people who are craving a change of scene from O-hill and Walnut, this is a great ride. You need to have some amount of experience …

In line with this great tradition I am humbled to be the one to lead this most sacred occasion. This will be a beginner trip, open to all. We will go over the basics and then hit the trails as our predecessors have for so many moons. From there we will determine everyone’s skill level and see what trails to …

I’ll be running a trip out to Walnut Creek for the many of you who haven’t gotten to go on a trip yet. Walnut Creek has a bunch of great beginner’s trails and this is a great way to get introduced to mountain biking. We’ll go for a couple of hours and won’t do anything that anyone is not comfortable …

Here’s hoping for better weather this time. Walnut Creek is about twenty minutes south of Cville and has lots of sweet singletrack trails. The club has nine sweet hardtail bikes and accompanying helmets. We will start off with the beginner’s loop and see what everyone can handle – we will not do anything that anyone does not feel comfortable riding. …

Walnut Creek has a great variety of trails, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is. It’s about a twenty minute drive south. No experience is necessary, you just have to be comfortable riding a bike and be willing to try something new. We will not ride anything that anyone does not feel comfortable …

I’ll be leading a beginner’s mountain biking trip to Walnut Creek Park on Saturday for those of you who can’t make it on Friday or who just like me better than Bob. Walnut Creek is 20 minutes south of here and has a bunch of trails with varying degrees of difficulty. We’ll start out really easy and gauge everyone’s skill …

Walnut Creek has a great variety of trails, so we’ll start off easy and see how experienced everyone in the group is. It’s about a twenty minute drive south. No experience is necessary, you just have to be comfortable riding a bike and be willing to try something new. We will not ride anything that anyone does not feel comfortable …

Mountain Biking combines the scenery of hiking with the thrill of some more extreme sports. Come out Wednesday afternoon to Walnut Creek and we’ll ride for a couple hours on terrain that everyone is comfortable with. Since this is during the summer parks season, there is a $3 admission fee per person. In case of rain we’ll have to reschedule …

Instead of spending all day paying lots of money to drink or watch people drink and then avoid cops, learn how to mountain bike. This course is for anyone who has not mountain biked before or has only gone a time or two and wants a refresher or extra practice before progressing to a more challenging trip. You do need …

This is an all levels bike trip before the 122nd (not 150th) Annual Walnut Creekathon. If you wish to stay for the Creekathon, then you need to sign up for it as well, if you do not, then we can hopefully find a driver willing to accomodate (but why wouldn’t you want to stay?). We will not bike any trail …

This trip is for anyone who feels that they understand the basics of mountain biking and want the chance to practice their riding. We will take a quick warm up lap and then explore some of the trails that Walnut has to offer. We will not ride any trails that anyone does not feel comfortable riding. The club has 9 …

The Weather is supposed to warm up Tuesday, and that means it’ll be a great day to go mountain biking! If you want to learn how to mountain bike, or don’t have a ton of experience and want to get in some time on the trails, come out to Walnut Creek this Tues! We’ll spend hopefully about an hour and …

Come out Saturday afternoon to ride a few miles on the ridges of O-Hill. We’ll meet at Echols, pedal up to the top and play for a couple hours. The club has some really nice new iron horses for you to use if you don’t own a bike. All skill levels are welcome, so we’ll stop at trail crossings to …

Did you want to go mountain biking on Thursday with Bob but either didn’t get on the trip or have class? I’ll be leading another trip out to Walnut Creek on Friday which I guarantee will be better if just for the comedic value of watching me slam into trees and fall down. No experience necessary, we’ll gauge everyone’s experience …

No experience is necessary, (other than knowing how to ride a bike). We’ll do a quick warm up to gauge everyone’s abilities and then go ride trails at the level that everyone is comfortable with – we will not ride anything that anyone is not comfortable riding. The club has front suspension bikes and helmets that can be checked out. …

Since this past Friday’s trip was so much fun, I’m going to try again for this Thurs. We will begin with some basic techniques and then try some entry level trails. After that we’ll see what everyone is up for and we’ll go exploring the 25 plus miles of trails. We will not ride any trails that people are not …

This ride is one of my favorites in VA and is considered one of the best climbs in the state, and because it’s a loop it also has an excellent down hill section. This 21 mile loop starts on FS road 42 at 1,595′ elevation, and takes you up to the top of Bald Mountain (3,587′) via a mile long …