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