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Hinton, Alberta
Hinton Mountain Bike Association. Our goal is to develop, maintain and promote the best possible mountain biking opportunities around the Hinton area, while ensuring responsible and safe practices in environmental conservation, trail construction, trail maintenance and riding.
The Hinton Mountain Bike Association AGM is set for Thursday, April 12, 2018.
Location: People's Centre at the Dr. Duncan Murray Recreation Centre
Time: Doors open at 6:30 pm. AGM starts at 7:15 pm
This is a great time to find out what HMBA has been up to and what the plans are for the upcoming year. Buy your 2018 membership and support mountain biking in Hinton!
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The Hinton Mountain Bike Association welcomes Casey Hore as our new Sprockids Coordinator!!! Casey, a parent with two young kids in the Sprockids program, brings a lot of energy and ideas and is looking forward to the upcoming Sprockids sessions this Spring.
Tim Trahan, the Sprockids Coordinator for the past 4 years, Sprockids Coach for the past 6 years, and the Operations/Trails Board Member between 2009 and 2013, has stepped down from his coordinator role, but will still be actively involved as a coach.
The HMBA is very excited for the continued involvement of our members in such a valued program as the Hinton Sprockids.
Thank you Tim for the great job and dedication you have provided and thank you Casey for accepting this new role!!
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Registration for 2018 is officially OPEN! Have you registered yet?
We can't wait to have you join us this year--we have so much fun planned! With some new coaches, new students, new courses, we've got lots of new, new, new to share!
2-day workshop: Learn How to Mountain Bike
This weekend workshop is for women who have little or no experience on a mountain bike and would like to learn the fundamentals of riding in a fun, safe, professional, and supportive environment.
Sign up for the Beginner Workshop!
2-day workshop: Improve your Mountain Bike Skills.
This weekend course is for women who have taken the beginner program before or have been riding for few years and are interested in improving their mountain biking skills. It is also an amazing opportunity to meet like-minded riding buddies.
Sign up for the Intermediate Workshop!
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THANK YOU to all these amazing sponsors for the Hinton Growler Fat Bike Endurance Race. They have provided cash contributions, prizes, products and services to help make our event the best it can be!
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A HUGE shout out to our 30, yes THIRTY, volunteers who signed up to help the Hinton Growler 2018 - Fat Bike Endurance Race. YOU GUYS ROCK!!! If you are racing in this event, be sure to thank the volunteers! They'll be sporting neon green beanies this year - you can't miss 'em!
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The HMBA would like to thank the Edmonton Juventus Cycling Club for recently donating $500!! The club's Sprockids program visits the Hinton Bike Park every Spring for a day fun riding.
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The HMBA is still looking for volunteers for the Hinton Growler 2018 - Fat Bike Endurance Race. Each volunteer gets a an awesome beanie (thank you Dig That Stitch for great discounts!), a Hinton Growler sticker, heat pads for hands (thank you Intersport in Hinton), heat pads for toes (thank you Maximum Work Gear), fed with a sub from Hinton's own Subway Restaurant AND a chance to win a $100 gift card donated by MR MIKES SteakhouseCasual Hinton ! Follow this link to sign-up:http://signup.com/go/OQAThVH Pssst! We really need to fill up our course marshal spots!
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The Hinton Mountain Bike Association is seeking a post-secondary student studying in Alberta to volunteer as an intern via the SCiP program (www.joinscip.ca). This is ideal for someone with course work in:
When the volunteer internship is successfully completed, the student receives a $1000 award. And HMBA benefits from their volunteer work!
Check out our posting:
https://www.joinscip.ca/internsh…/1970-survey-analyst-intern
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The HMBA invested in some trail counters last Fall and 3 were installed on trails within the Happy Creek Trail System this winter. We were curious to see what trail usage was in winter months. The average air temperature is added to the graph, and we can see that the colder temperatures didn't sway some of our trail users! Data from our trail counters will help estimate trail usage, monitor growth in usage and also to compare usage between seasons. All this data will be valuable in any future grants - we can use these numbers to show how awesome our trails are, year-round!!
Trail Usage Stats
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On December 12th, The HMBA received a $500 donation from Colin Hanington through his employer REPSOL Oil & Gas Canada's Investing in our Communities Program. In the photo, Jonathan Hayward (left) accepts the donation from Colin Hanington (right). Thank you Colin and REPSOL!
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Exciting news! Tuesday, Mr. Eric Rosendahl, MLA for West Yellowhead, presented a cheque to HMBA's Treasurer, Julie Duval. HMBA has been awarded $6,683 for a Community Facility Enhancement Program (CFEP) grant - a grant that was applied for in March 2017.
This grant covers the work done this past summer to refurbish the skills areas and trails within the Hinton Bike Park. The work totaled over $14.6K. Matching funds for the grant included $5K from the Bike Park's Operational Funds (Town of Hinton) and $3.5K of donated services/labour from Hoots Inc.
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There are many reports of trees down at the Hinton Bike Park and on our trail systems. Please ride with care!! Our trail guardians (aka volunteers) have been removing some of these trees, but it may be a while before it's all cleared up.
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Rock Band was a trail added to the Happy Creek Trail system in Spring of 2016 in the form of a short but sweet 0.6 km technical downhill trail option (Difficulty rating: Advanced (black)). Read about the initial build here. The last 70m of this trail went through a low-lying area and the above-average accumulation of rain in the Summer of 2016 made it clear that we needed to find a solution for this wet section, dubbed "Shrek's Swamp".
In the Spring of 2017, the Hinton Mountain Bike Association applied for the Hinton Community Grant and was awarded $2,035 to build a boardwalk for Rock Band.
Thanks to the contributions of many volunteers in the past few months, the donation of lumber from West Fraser Mills Ltd., and the Hinton Community Grant, a long, winding technical feature was added to Rock Band's song.
There is still a short section to complete to make it perfect, but it's definitely good to Rock'ON as is. Many thanks to all the awesome volunteers who made this happen - over 75 hours of volunteer time was put into this project!
Lumber donated from West Fraser Mills Ltd.
Thank you West Fraser Mills Ltd, Hinton Divison and the Town of Hinton for your contributions and support!
First step: cutting all the slats
Overall, almost 400 slats needed to be cut
Putting the Rokon + trail to good use!
Some added excitement for the day! Luckily, no one or thing got hurt in this kerfuffle.
Other modes of transportation. And yes, this mode had it's own kurfuffles!
Good way to build up those riding arms!
Workin' on the line
View from the exit
View from the entry point
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The Hinton Mountain Bike Association would like to give a BIG thank you to Talisman Logging for their recent donation of $1,000!!! Talisman Logging is a local Hinton business who has contributed a total of $6,000 since 2015. THANK YOU Talisman Logging for seeing the value of investing your dollars in #bikehinton!!
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REPSOL has generously donated $1,000 to the Hinton Sprockids Program. A cheque was presented to the program's coordinator at the last Sprockids session of the season. The kids were excited to ride in a warm Fall night and to eat the burgers and hot dogs provided for the kids. Food items were donated by McDonalds, Safeway, Freson Bros - Hinton Hill and Freson Bros - Hinton Valley.
Jesse Kirillo, REPSOL, presents a cheque for $1,000 to Tim Trahan, Hinton Sprockids Coordinator.
Tim Trahan, Hinton Sprockids Coordinator, thanks Jesse Kirillo, representative of REPSOL, for donating the use of their mobile BBQ for the program's year-end session.
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