Another great ride Steve, thanks for all the rides you lead!
Join Steve at Kelly Mountain Sunday, May 27 at 10:00am for a ride to the towers and wherever else the trail may go.
Click here for a map to the staging area.
It’s national sunscreen day and you should bring some as the forecast is for continued hot and sunny conditions.
Club rides are open to anyone, feel free to come out for a couple of rides to try the club, meet some riding buddies and find new trails.
GPS Training Recap
Thanks Grahame for putting on an informative GPS Training course. The attendees soaked up Grahame’s teachings and after a bit of wandering back and forth looking for the first hidden coordinate, they quickly picked up the scent and found their remaining waypoints.
After the training a few riders hung around and we meandered the trails out to Cooper’s Launch to watch the paragliders take off then tried to skirt the edge of Silver Star park but were thwarted by snow at 1250m.
We’ll be doing another training course to get more people up to speed, stay tuned!
It’s one of the most important devices to have with you in the backcountry but do you really know how to use your GPS?
Starting at 10:00am at the bottom of Noble Canyon Road Sunday, May 13. The course will start from scratch and cover:
Bring a lunch, your GPS (or come with someone with a GPS) and your all-terrain vehicle. Members, friends and the general public is welcome to attend.
It would be helpful if you’re able to familiarize yourself with your GPS functions by reading the manual or watching something on Youtube, but it’s not critical. Get in touch if you have any questions.
Join Steve this Sunday, May 6 at 10:00am at King Eddy Road. It’s National Beverage day so bring your favourite non-alcoholic beverage for the breaks.
Everyone is welcome to attend, it doesn’t matter if you’re a member or new to the area. Come out to see what club rides are all about and meet other riders.
Rides at this time of year will be suitable for beginner to intermediate skill riders. There is a mix of forest service road riding, trails that have melted out and snow covered trails.
Ride Recap
A fun day on the trails at Bear Creek Kelowna with a bit of trail work thrown in for good measure.
The first trail work we ran into was water running down the trail instead so we redug a couple of the water control structures to prevent further trail erosion (note to self, remember a shovel next time!).
Someone had already bucked logs along the first bit of trail #1 but after checking out the radio towers on Blue Grouse Mtn we started getting into more snow then downed trees. After lunch in a clearing overlooking the city we trudged on through the snow until we came across a steep downhill with a number of trees across it. It was getting late in the afternoon and our progress had slowed to a walk so we turned around and took almost 2 hours to climb the 50 metres back up the steep slope.
Watch for more rides at Bear Creek or check out the Okanagan Trail Riders Association page to get in touch with them for other ride/volunteer opportunities.
We’re joining the Kelowna ATV Club at Bear Creek on Sunday, April 29, ready to ride at 10:00am sharp at the Aspen Trailhead.
Bring your chainsaw or handsaw and necessary safety gear. We’ll be clearing blowdown as we encounter it on the trails. Trail fees are waived for the ride in exchange for our work on the trails.
For those needing a ride to Kelowna there are 3 spots for machines and riders on my trailer, let me know if you want to hop on. We’ll be leaving the DND parade ground parking lot at 8:30am Sunday morning for the drive to Bear Creek and should be back in Vernon around 5:30pm.
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Thanks Steve for leading another great early season ride. A big turnout of riders again, reports are the snow is melting fast but why didn’t anyone have toasted chocolate covered raisins for lunch?
When pressed for a name we resort to looking up what national day it is, so now you’ll remember that March 25 is national Chocolate Covered Raisin Day. Last ride was the waffle ride and we had folks toasting waffles over the fire, stay tuned to see what happens with the Glosettes this weekend.
Riding will be limited to the graded roads, straying too far from plowed roads means getting really stuck this winter. Beginner riders and up are welcome on this ride, the only thing to be aware of is it can be slick from 0-10km on King Eddy Road as it hides in the shade much of the day.
Bring your friends, members and non-members are all invited to come out. If you’re not a member but want to check out the club come out to see some new trails and meet riding buddies.
Holy hannah, nice turnout with 20 machines for our first sunny Sunday ride of spring. Lots of roads plowed up on the plateau but be careful venturing into deeper snow as we found out with lots of pushing and winching and some folks thinking it was going to be a campout.
Our next club ride will be Sunday March 11 at 10:00am at King Eddy.
This day has the double dubious honour of being spring forward time change AND national waffle day. Someone must have a great name for this ride, send us your ideas.
We’ll meet up at the bottom of King Eddy for this ride so change your clocks and set your alarm so you’re not late for this 10:00am start. It just keeps on snowing at elevation so come prepared for winter riding.
There may be a lunch fire, we usually try and have some sort of a small smoke producing creature (some call it fire) so you may want something that can be eaten without flames.
It’s National Drink Wine Day Sunday, so we’ll call the ride the No Winers Ride. Meet up ready to ride at 10:00am at the bottom of Noble Canyon Road Sunday, February 18.
We haven’t been to Noble Canyon for a month or so, we’ll see where we can ride. The main road to Becker is still being plowed by the logging companies so at the very least we’ll be able to get up to the Becker Lake area trails.
Kyle Born from Riders West got in touch and asked if he could interview us for a story for their magazine. He’d heard we’re one of the only clubs that keeps it going through the winter, he did a great job capturing what makes our area, riders and club unique.
Winter Carnival Parade Photos
Have you ever wanted to ride your machine downtown? Of course, we all have!
Here’s your chance, bring your side x side, quad or dirtbike and join our entry in the 2018 Vernon Winter Carnival Parade, Saturday February 3 from 10:30am – 1:30pm.
The theme is Alice in Wonderland, click here for some easy costume ideas. and our own home grown 15 minute costume idea.
It’s loads of fun, parade spectators loved seeing the machines last year and kids go bonkers when you wave back at them, good fun!
Let us know if you’re coming by phone (250-550-5290), email or fill out the form below.
Parade Info
We are #91 in the parade and will be staged on 27th Street at the 42nd Avenue intersection, right in front of 3% Real Estate.
We suggest you arrive early and try to find parking near Seaton School. If you park East of 27th Street you will not be able to ride back to your vehicle after the parade as 27th reopens as soon as soon as the parade has passed.
We’ll have smokies on the BBQ in the Seaton School parking lot after the parade.
