Flying Flags of Things to Come!

When the conditions on the mountains look like this, time is best spent off trail with a few friends, many rolls of flagging tape and a clinometer. It is scouting time of year. The 2014 scouting season has been one of the longest due to old man winter refusing to leave the Mid-Atlantic, this is a good thing because of the many new trail projects that are on tap for the next few years.

Lairds Knob...Windy and snow filled on the last day of March

Once trail work at Hillandale finishes up in May the SVBC crews will shift to the Western Slope of Massanutten to begin on the next phase of the ever growing trail system. This year's project at Massanutten might be the most exciting since the 2 year project that created the "2K Traill".

The Orange Flags in the GW will have you exploring for miles!

The orange flags are not limted to Massanutten. The majority of orange rolls where used west of town in the George Washington National Forest. SVBC has secured over 100K of funding through the Recreational Trails Program Grant  (FREE Pulp Bowl to the first correct answer of who is on that site) to continue trail work efforts in areas such as Dowell's Draft, Wolfe Ridge and the Wild Oak Trail.

To find out more about these projects come out to the next SVBC Social on April 14th, SVBC will break out the maps and hold a round table discussion about some of the upcoming National Forest projects.

Now time to putting the flagging tape and climnometer away until next winter and jump on the bikes!

Thomas