Trail-Building & The PACA Library

John and I spent a couple of days in Kelowna recently, attending an IMBA / MTBco sponsored trail-building class and on-site course. We brought home yet another excellent publication from IMBA: Managing Mountain Biking – IMBA's Guide to Providing Great Riding.

It joins numerous other printed publications and DVDs that we have in our Bike Club library - freely available to all of our membership to be signed out for up to 30 days at a time.

If anyone is interested, please feel free to contact us at your convenience and we'll arrange to get you what you need.

The list of excellent resources available to you includes:


Printed Publications

Natural Surface Trails by Design
Managing Mountain Biking – IMBA's Guide to Providing Great Riding
Trail Solutions – IMBA’s Guide to Building Sweet Singletrack
NOLS Wilderness First Aid – Third Edition
NOLS Wilderness Navigation
NOLS Wilderness Guide
Bear Attacks – Their Cause & Avoidance
Backroad Mapbook – Vol III Okanagan
Best Hikes & Walks of Southwest BC
Okanagan Backroads – Vol 1 South Central Okanagan
Okanagan Trips & Trails
USDA – Trail Construction & Maintenance Notebook
USDA – Wetland trail Design & Construction
USDA – Goesynthetics for Trails in Wet Areas
Forest Industry Suppliers – Cat 60 2009 (Like a Lee Valley catalog, but for trail-builders)
Okanagan Roots – A Historical Look at the South Okanagan & Similkameen
Planning Trails With Wildlife in Mind - A Handbook for Trail Planners

DVDs

United States Dept. of Forest Service Documentation for everything published to date (!)
United States Dept. of Forest Service – Building Mountain Bike Trails
United States Dept. of Forest Service – Trail Training DVD Series

Mapping

We also host what is arguably the most comprehensive collection of NGO digital mapping data in the South-Central Okanagan, including digital topographical mapping, full-color 3D flyovers, hundreds of GPS files and more.

All of this is yours for the asking – because you hold a PACA or SOTA Membership!

Andrew D.


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Just added 'Natural Surface Trails by Design' to the collection. Excellent publication, read up on it here:

http://www.natureshape.com/pubs/nstbd.html

Free for PACA & SOTA members to sign out.

Andrew