🚧COMMUNITY WORK BEE SCHEDULED: 📣You may have noticed some flagging in between Austin’s and Fire Breaker in recent weeks. The ECA has about 3km 😮 of switch back trail planned for building on the West End of the park in coming weeks and in order to do so we need to clear some brush. Exciting!👊 💪Your help with some clearing of trail for this summers new trail construction would be greatly appreciated to give our trail builders a head start. 📅When: Saturday June 14 9am-3pm 📍Where: Meet at Austin’s West. 🍕@mountainpizzaedson will be providing lunch. 🍕 🕛Come on out for 30 minutes, an hour, the morning, the afternoon or the whole day if you are able. Every little bit of effort can help towards this new build. 🙌

🚧 Repair to the North Bridge Boardwalk was completed last Friday. 🙌 Thank you to everyone who was able to attend #buildandmaintain nights in the last few weeks to help with the reroute of the board walk away from the undermining at the creek. Maintenance nights are held weekly, usually on Thursday evenings, watch our socials for a time, meeting location and project announcement. We welcome all hands to help if they are able :) 😁

📣Vandalism hurts everyone. It’s more than just marker, spray paint or broken 4x4’s, it’s a sign of disrespect to our trail system and community. Every act of vandalism costs money 💰 to repair, takes away volunteers time ⏳ and makes the area feel less safe. 😞 Let’s take pride in our trail system and community and protect it. 🙌 🙏Respect the trail system that’s maintained by volunteers and respect each other. Come out and hike, bike or run our trails but please leave your sharpies at home.

📣 There will be workers / construction on fire breaker just north of Austin’s as well as traffic down the quad trail in the next few days. Please watch for workers in these areas. It's going to be cool... we promise.😁

We are moving the #buildandmaintain night to FRIDAY May 30. Work continues on the north bridge boardwalk. This should get it wrapped up!

#buildandmaintain nights this Thursday. We will be continue working on the boardwalk by the north bridge. Meet at the toboggan hill. Gloves and closed toes footwear are a good idea.

🚧Trail Maintenance work to the board walk at the North Bridge is in progress. The boardwalk is being rerouted once again due to undermining at the creek. Patience Please 🙏 A reminder that Trail Maintenance nights take place on Thursday evenings, weather dependent. You're always welcome to join in🙌, sometimes we just forget to update on socials 😉

Reminder 🔔 The ECA AGM is tonight at 7pm in the Edson Best Western. Come Get Involved! 🙌

Kicking off the 2025 #build&maintain nights this Thursday. We will be working on the boardwalk by the north bridge. Meet at the toboggan hill. Gloves and closed toes footwear are a good idea.

Early Spring Surprise!🤩 Our Bike Skills park has officially been unwrapped and has held pristine shape after its fall maintenance. It is ready for you to ride in this beautiful spring weather! *Closed Signage is still to be taken down, we forgot a drill ;) Thank you for your patience and enjoy the weekend! 🚲

Please use caution on our trails as we wait for things to dry. A reminder that our Bike Park remains closed until we can confirm frost has fully come out and the park is dry. Please keep off of features as this preserves them, features were maintained by Hoots Inc in the fall and should be in great shape when we have an un-wrap workbee. Typically we target May Long opening but we can’t make any promises! Your patience is appreciated by our volunteers.

📆Save the Date. Our AGM is coming up Tuesday May 13 2025. Come get involved in your local trails. 🙌 Trail Support Pass (memberships) are required to vote and are available to purchase at Edsoncycling.com

Where do I get my Trail Support Pass? Right here. https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/edson-cycling-association-memberships--2024 This is our renamed membership to The Edson Cycling Association. You will also receive some great discounts on bike related expenses from Riderz Edson. All proceeds go to keeping your trails rad summer and winter.

The groomer was out this morning setting tracks on some of our favourite trails. Austin’s Dream, North Boundary, Spruce, Pine. With the weather warming up during the days and cool at night, early morning and evening rides would be best. It is slippery under the snow, studs are highly recommended. This will most likely be the last groom of the year, so get out there and enjoy what we have left of winter fat biking. A huge thank you to all the volunteers who set aside time to help groom this past season. Don’t forget to check out our website for links to donations and trail passes for the upcoming year.

Freeze, thaw, freeze, thaw… Repeat as necessary until it’s all thaw and the forest comes back to life after winter. With the weather definitely favouring the thaw. Please be mindful of what your bikes and boots are doing to the trail surfaces. Our crew of amazing volunteers are working hard behind the scenes on some huge projects for Willmore Park this year that riders will be sure to enjoy. We are putting plans in place for some new trails and trail features. Please exercise caution out on the trails, there will be hidden ice and soft snow that will swallow a front or rear tire. If you are leaving tire ruts or deep boot prints in the mud please consider using the Towns paved trails for the next few weeks as the ground continues to thaw. Stay tuned for announcements in regards to town trail rides(weather permitting). We always welcome new riders and will keep to the paved trails.

The cold is gone, the trails are tight and well prepped for the weekend. Get out there and enjoy. All west side trails are groomed, and well as some for the east side trails. Both machines got out this evening to get a jump on the spring grooming. There is still lots of snow, check your pressures and most importantly have some fun. If you see our grooming team out there be sure to make way and let them pass. Enjoy your weekend, it’s well deserved, and make some time to check out our website for memberships and donations to the club.

2025 Trail Support Passes are now available 🚴🚶&zwj;♂️🏃&zwj;♀️ 🔗***Link in Bio***🔗
We would like to thank @riderz_ab for their support of our membership.
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Our Trail Support Passes and donations are now on a new platform - Z

2025 Trail Support Passes are now available 🚴🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️ 🔗***Link in Bio***🔗 We would like to thank @riderz_ab for their support of our membership. Swipe to learn more. Our Trail Support Passes and donations are now on a new platform - Zeffy. This is a FREE platform designed to eliminate transaction fees for non-profits. This allows us to direct all of our funds directly to trail development. maintenance, consumables, insurance etc. There is a prompt for donation to the platform when you purchase a trail pass or make a donation. You can always select “other” and make this amount $0. There is no obligation to donate to the platform. This platform has also made your proof of membership card digital.

Let’s go ride some bikes. Sunday Jan 26 is looking to be a pretty nice day for a group ride. Dust off those fat bikes and join us down at Willmore Park for a ride. All levels of experience are welcome, we will be meeting at the Austin’s Dream/North Boundary parking lot at 11:00am. See you all there!!!

Trees have been cleared on the trails as of 9:00pm last night. Groomer was out doing clean up after the storm and removed downed trees. Trails are firm and fast. Let’s take advantage of this warm weather and get those bikes loaded up for a night ride. Tonight Jan 22 at 7:00 let’s play fat bikes. Meet at the Austin’s/North Boundary trailheads. Some climbing, some downhill fun on Flying Squirrel. Easy ride. Charge up those lights, it s going to be fun.

It’s been a while. Time to ride some bikes. Group ride tonight! Meet at the Austin’s/North Boundary trail head at 7:00pm. Headlamps/bar lights would be good to bring along. As well as a fat tire bike. The weather has finally warmed up and the trails are in super good shape.