We have gained permission to camp for one nite on the property that we made our trail on. This is going to be alot of fun! The park does have bathrooms but...no running water. We are charging $15 per camping unit. All the cash will go towards future MTB'n projects in Manitowoc Cnty. Bring the entire family for a nite of fun camping and MTB'n.

 Dude...it's 50 degrees and sunny....let's go ride!!!

Before you go ride'n on any MTB Trail, it would be wise to find out if that trail system is open. Trails may be closed in the winter and part of the spring or closed after a hard rain. Trails around the state are starting to open up but most are still closed due to our super awesome long Wisconsin winter. Ride'n on closed trails can cause user impact (see the ruts in the pic below). Ruts can then hold water and cause more impact on the trail and the environment.

Please RESPECT all trails that are closed.
 
Maribel MTB Trail is still closed. Please be patient & wait a few more weeks.

THANKS from all the trail stewards from around the state of Wisconsin and beyond!

This past Friday, George Kaptiz and myself had a meeting with Justin Nickels (Mayor of Manty),  Kevin Glaeser (Manty Parks) and Paul Braun (Deputy City Planner for Manty) for possible Mountain Bike Trail Development in the city of Manitowoc. The Property that we are looking at is Camp Vits City Park. This park is 76.62 acres of undeveloped land. The meeting went extremely well and the attendees were very perceptive to our club and what we stand for. As of right now, we have gained permission to design and pin flag a beginner/intermediate trail loop on the upper level of the park. And we will need to design other Mountain Biking trail options for advanced riders. These trail designs will then be submitted to the Manitowoc City council and will hopefully get approved to build trail .
keep an eye out for any and all updates.

 2013 DNR Trail Training Courses Open for Registration
Attendees will graduate from this 4-day class with a greater knowledge and understanding of current trail design and construction techniques. Each day of the training will have a classroom component and hands-on application. Attendance at all four days of the training is required. You’ll be taught how to create natural (dirt) surface trails that:
        *  Minimize impact to resources
        *  Minimize maintenance
        *  Do not go beyond capacity of the land
        *  Keep users on the trail
Each day of the course builds upon the knowledge from the previous day. Day 1 covers trail design and layout; Day 2, trail construction; Day 3, trail maintenance; and Day 4 is when you’ll put it all together for practical application and obtain completion certificates. The training is free to public trail volunteers and land managers. Cost for other attendees is $425. The 2013 trainings will be held in Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Madison areas. For more information and to sign up: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013TrailTrainings.

Jason Manders and the crew at "Trail Genius" stopped out at MC last fall to video and GPS our trail to add to thier site.
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Click here to see our trail in action.
http://trailgenius.com/trails/maribel-caves
this online tool is super bad ass!! We will be slowly building this site with more info, sponsors, music and more.
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Holy Crap!! Our 4th Annual PORT 2 POINT MTB ride / Fund Raiser is this come'n April 7th. Hope you can come out to ride and eat some pizza. We will ride the rode to Point Beach if the trail has snow. Bring the entire family out to this fun event.

-The NEW OM

 The NEW OM and the Manitowoc Co parks have agrreed to close the MTB trails to Biking in the winter. This will allow winter sports at Maribel to take full advatage of the property while snow is on the ground. We came to this decesion due to our MTB trail crossing the Ski Trail to many times. Please show respect to the other user groups of this property.

See Ya in the spring...THANKS!!!-The NEW OM

Last weekend we had the Boy Scouts From Troop 1173 of Bellvue come out to help with some Trail building. I educated these young men with the 101 of proper trail building. They took there schooling for that day and worked hard on our trail. I just didn't teach these guys how to build trail, They taught me some things too. I've learned that you can spend alot of time tag team wrestling and still get your work done. And they expressed there love for DUB STEEP. Dub Steep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London. I have sinced learned to hate this music. But...I'm a Punk Rocker...to each there own.
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 Blake is not a Boy Scout, But he came out to help build trail and gain a few hours of comunitty service for High School.

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The Scouts thought our berm was cool and gave it try on foot. A few Scouts Told me that they are going to come out and enjoy the trail on there MT Bikes.

Thanks Scouts for your hard work!!

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 We had our first CAVEMAN Time Trial Event this past weekend. I have to say that it went incredible well. We had over 60 Mountain Bikers from all over the state that came to compete and enjoy our event to raise funds for our club (we took in over $1600). I was very impressed in our time keeping officials, they had their job dialed in like a well oiled machine. The course was well marked  &  groomed  and we couldn't have ask mother nature for better weather than what we had that day (mid 60's). All of our volunteers put in 100% to make this event awesome.

Thanks to all of our volunteers, we could not have put this event together without you. But we do need to recognize the major players:
Father and son team: Brian and Blake for grooming the trail
Randy, Brandon, Jordan and Joel for thier time keeping
Julie for sitting in one spot all day and taking care of the reg, merch and tix sales
Melissa and Carrie for making the food and running the food tent
Certified CPR and 1st Aid Trail Marshalls Josh&Pete
Darrell aka Leatherface for building the starting ramp

Prizes were rewarded to the top 3 riders for each group. Cow bells were handed out to the spectaters to help cheer on the riders.

Chili, Chicken taco soup, bake goods, coffee, soda, water and......BEER.

The Mt. Borah starting ramp gave the rider a faster lead out.

Peeps brought out the FAT-BIKES.

Here's a Jr rider just before the finish line. The tape for this event was sponsored by RALEIGH BIKES.

This is a weird picture of LEATHER-FACE.....oh yeah...I know why it looks weird....No Chainsaw

it's all down hill from here. DAN: carving the wallride.

POST CARD?

Our Friends from the South came up to ride and support our club. here is Eric from the Sheboygan FAT KATS.

Trail Marshalls: hard at work. What's up with the duct tape?

60+ degree temps= good times, Hope to see you out at the next CAVEMAN event.

THANKS TO ALL OF OUR CAVEMAN SPONSORS:
CAWELY Co., Bike N' Fit, Broken Spoke Bike Studio, Heavy Pedal Bicycles LLC, Mt Borah Custom, FARMERS Insurance, Rays Indoor MTB Park, Doctor Freud's Records and Tapes, RALEIGH BIKES, Cross Fit Manitowoc

We burned through 500 business cards in less than 6 months. We'll place an order for more cards next week. This is what they'll look like. Please let me know if you think we should change the info on the card. Thanks for your help -Wade-