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The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew
is a time-tested international trails program. Since 1997, Subaru/IMBA Trail
Care Crews have been traveling coast to coast (and beyond), teaching trail
users, mountain bikers, clubs, retailers and land managers how to design, build,
maintain and manage trails that are environmentally sound and fun to ride, walk
or run. Each two-person crew travels in a new 2000 Subaru Outback. Subaru of
America is the title sponsor of the program.
Joey Klein and Kathy Summers
joined the Trail Care Crew program in March 1999. They hail from Montezuma,
Colorado. In addition to extensive trail building and maintenance experience,
both have impressive mountain biking travel and racing resumes. Klein and
Summers have ridden in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, western
Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Japan. Some of their most notable on-the-bike
adventures have unfolded close to home in Colorado. Both are past winners of
Montezuma's Revenge, the one-of-a-kind alpine epic mountain bike race that
encompasses the summits of two 14,000-footers. Joey designed the Keystone
(Colorado) mountain bike trail system, working in conjunction with the U.S.
Forest Service on an environmental impact study as well as trail mapping and
signage. Kathy took the overall title in the Monserrat Fat Tire Festival in '95
and won Montezuma's Revenge the same year.
Jen and Rich Edwards became
Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew No. 3 in March 2000. Originally from Pennsylvania
and upstate New York, the Edwards gained years of bicycle retail and bike
messenger experience in Washington, DC. They spent two summers as mountain bike
guides at the Elk River Touring Center in West Virginia and later worked for
Arizona Off Road Adventures in Tucson. The Edwards are passionate about all
aspects of cycling, particularly bike commuting and trailwork.
Jan and Mike Riter of Conyers,
Georgia, served as the inaugural Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew, 1997-1999. They
developed and refined many of the concepts presented in this booklet. The Riters
now head Trail Design Services, a trails consulting business based in Conyers,
GA.
IMBA: Founded in 1988, The
International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) works to keep trails open
and in good condition for everyone. IMBA helps its members solve their local and
regional trail access and advocacy problems and improve the sport of mountain
bicycling. IMBA works with national land management agencies. IMBA organizes and
distributes a library of information about managing mountain bicycling,
political tactics, scientific studies, liability and non-profit organization.
IMBA participates in the global effort to establish and maintain trail networks
and to improve the image of bicycling.
"To show our commitment
to cyclists everywhere, Subaru is doing something positive. Something important.
Something that will help preserve the trails for you to ride forever. We've
teamed with IMBA to create the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew."
- Subaru web site.