Holiday Toy Drive & Mountain Bike Ride or Hike

Blue Hills Sunday December 2, 10AM Join the Blue Hills DCR Park Rangers and volunteers from TrailWatch and SEMASS NEMBA for our annual holiday toy drive collection. Bring a new unwrapped toy, then go on a guided or self-guided mtb-ride or hike. All toys will be donated to Interfaith Social Services which help deserving families during the holidays. Gifts for children ages 11-16 are most needed. Scheduled activities: Toy Drop & Refreshments 10am – 1pm Mountain Bike Ride 10am Houghton’s Pond Hike 1pm For more information, call 617-698-1802 ext. 212 Event will meet at the Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside Street in Milton, MA. DCR Event Flyer here: http://www.mass.gov/dcr/events/bh12-2.pdf

NEMBA Access Raffle 2012

Support NEMBA's Trail Grant Program and Win some Great Prizes donated by our awesome sponsors! The drawing will be held at the 2012 Wicked Ride of the East, Oct. 29th, but you do not need to be present to win. More info and how to buy raffle tickets click here: To learn more about NEMBA trail grants, and how this raffle supports some of NEMBA's major trail projects, click here: Raffle prizes include: Trek Stash

Mavic Crossmax SLR (26 or 29, your choice!) And more...

NEMBA TrailFest @ Highland Mountain Bike Park Sept. 22-23, 2012

Mark your calendars and reserve the dates! Join many of NEMBA’s core trailbuilders for a weekend of building and riding at Highland Mountain Bike Park on Sept. 22-23. We’ll be building some awesome XC singletrack on the property adjacent to Highland for the first part of each day, and then doing some downhilling and cross-country riding for the rest of the day. We’ll be camping and using the bunkhouse at Highland Saturday night (but you’ll be welcome to come up Friday night, if you wish). On Saturday evening we’ll have BBQ, beverages and a bonfire. Mark, the owner of HMBP, has generously offered to provide comp passes to those that come build. You might wish to rent a DH bike to maximize your fun! NS NEMBA’s Joe DiZazzo and others have been up to Highland designing trails, and we want help building it. This will be a great work hard/play hard weekend. If you enjoy building trails, this weekend is not to be missed! If you are a NEMBA trail crew leader willing to lead a work crew, please let us know. We’re going to need quite a few crew leaders. We’ll try to have a meeting of crew leaders the Friday afternoon before the event to review the work sites. Also, please let NS NEMBA’s Steve Charrette know that you’ll be coming to the event. If you wish to reserve one of the 20 bunk bed, let him know that too since it’s first come, first served. RSVP Required: Steve Charrette Schedule (subject to change): Friday PM Key crew leaders meet for site review Volunteers can arrive and camp (unsupported) Saturday 7am We’ll try to provide coffee and donuts. However, people may wish to cook their own breakfast 8:30 Trail Building begins, broken down into project teams. 1pm Lunch (either pack a lunch or eat at Highland’s lodge) 2-5pm Downhilling/XC riding or keep the trail building mojo going! 6pm or so BBQ n’ Beer Sunday – Repeat until 5pm MORE INFO HERE:

2012 NEMBA Jerseys

Check it out! NEMBA's newest high performance, relaxed fit jersey featuring two back pockets and a 6" zip in front. The orange and black color scheme features a rider pedaling through a pine forest with an eagle soaring above. The back features our Build, Ride, Repeat logo, with chainwheels marking the side panels. Sizing is very standard, (not typical Euro/Roadie Fit). If you're a large, you're a large! ORDER HERE

NEMBAfest at KT! A second time has to be better! Come celebrate all things mountain biking at one of the premier riding destinations in the country.  We are partnering with the Burke Mountain Ski Resort and the Kingdom Trails Association to put on a fun-filled weekend of riding, camping, demo'ing the latest mountain bikes and checking out the latest gear, music, food and more. We hope to see you out on the trails, hangin' at the venue or taking in some live & local music in the beer garden hosted up by some super sweet Vermont hospitality...yeah, it'll be one you wont want to miss.  Linkage

Foxboro Relaxed & Mello Weekly Ride

Join us on Monday's for the weekly relaxed social ride in the Foxboro State Forest. Brad Childs is your ride leader, it's a great ride for anyone who wants to get back into mountain biking, or ride at a relaxed and social pace. For more info, contact Brad as follows: Brad Childs bcam64@yahoo.com 508-838-6351 The ride meets at the Foxboro Conservation Parking Lot at 6PM. Get there early for a pre-ride bike check and group introductions. See you there!

Wompatuck Park Serve Day

Join a Local Ride

SEMASS area riders can join in on any number of local rides in our area led by NEMBA members for all to enjoy. Dont forget to subscribe to our email list for more ride announcements and events. Subscribe by sending an email here: MTB-SEMass-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Here's a short list of recurring rides in our area, with ride difficulty and intended audience. If you are unsure, feel free to contact the ride leader (shown below).

• Tuesdays, Foxboro SF, Foxboro MA Mellow-Recovery Iian Crerar  
• Wednesdays Duxbury TF Women Beth Mills (WOMEN) (AM)  
• Wednesdays Ride Location TBD SE Mass or Cape Cod Advanced Beginner-Intermediate Bill Boles (AM) 
• First Thursday of the month, Ride Location TBD Interemdiate Iian Crerar  
• All Other Thursdays Foxboro SF, Foxboro MA Intermediate Iian Crerar 
• Fridays Blue Hills, Milton MA Intermediate Steve Cobble (AM) 
• Saturdays Wompatuck SP, Hingham Novice-Advanced Novice Richard Banks

Busy Spring!

SEMASS has been busy this spring. Four big project days, and many more to come.
Here's a short list of the work we've already accomplished, and it's only 1/2 way through April!

• Created trail plan for a new trail coming in Blue Hills
• Built a new bridge in Wompatuck State Park
• Cleared trails at Ames Nowell, Borderland, Foxboro, Wrentham and Wompatuck State Parks/Forests
• Cut new trail in Eaton Pond, Braintree MA
• and more, stay tuned.

Check out our happy Bridge Build volunteers at Wompatuck State Park

Borderland Trail Issue

Fellow Riders of Borderland,

Please help me get the word out that there is some unwanted trail building activities going on in the park. Most of it is primarily some new building of trail off-shoots up to and over many of the big boulders that are off-trail - some close and some further from trails edge.
Most of this activity is occurring off of Friend's and Ridge Trails, but I'm sure there are other areas.

This activity has to cease immediately.

As many of you may know, NEMBA has had over a decade of good will in the park, and built 2 very useful trails in that time: Bob's Trail and NEMBA Trail, as well as a ton of bridges (Friends Trail) and other projects in the park. Over that same period of time, the Borderland Advisory Council and the Friends of Borderland (representing the public stakeholders for park use) as well as the DCR have all given Mountain Bikers positive reviews and continue to promote our presence as a beneficial user group. Please, let's not ruin a good thing with this activity.

Thank you