President's Report for January

Greetings Fellow Cyclists and Happy New Year.  December was a most challenging month with the floods and nasty weather.  Charlene and I were able to ride to Pacific from Orting for Fish Tacos in spite of the closed Sumner Link Trail.  The next day we rode to Crocker from Orting and found a short piece of trail covered in parking lot gravel.  The Sanikan had floated away about 12 feet.  Then the trail was covered in thin mud.  We turned back, but others were heading to South Prairie.  Hopefully we can all get on a few of our regular rides in January. 

The State Legislative Session will soon start up and we will be down in Olympia advocating for non-motorized transportation improvements.  Locally we are following the adoption of the County Parks PROS Plan which includes various trail projects like the Pipeline Trail and the Parkland Community Trail.  I'm working with Larry Leveen of ForeverGreen Trails to get the Burlington Northern to grant a permit for trail construction in Roy.   The Chehalis Western Trail is pushing north towards Roy.  The Nisqually River Bridge crossing may open in January.   You can ride north from Yelm to check out the bridge crossing. 

Thanks as always for supporting our club and our work.