Annual meeting (The Meltdown)

February 21, 20091:00 pmto3:00 pmCITA’s annual meeting is set for Saturday, February 21 at the Vaudeville Mews in Downtown Des Moines. Please join us in celebrating singletrack and powering up for the year ahead. We’re trying to keep this a casual, social affair — something helps us all shrug off winter. So, we’ll be having a *short* meeting on 2009 projects, electing a...

January meeting summary

In an effort to be a bit more open and informational, we here at CITA are going to try to do a better job of posting our meeting minutes (and I, personally, will try to take better notes during meetings to disseminate information). Thanks to all who did attend Tuesday night. We had around twenty dirt-loving, cabin-fever-heads crammed into the small meeting room at Caribou on Ingersoll and we had...

January meeting

Here’s a quick update on some events coming up this week that you may want to be tuned in on: Jester Park Master Plan Public meeting, Thursday, January 22, 7.00pm at the Jester Park Lodge: this is the first step in PCCB’s plans for Jester, which should include singletrack trail & more specifically, mountain bikes, please come along & show your support (the horseback gang...

Call to action

Three requests: 1. Take this survey now. Add ‘sustainable singletrack open to mountain bikes’ to question 3 and use questions 4-6 to tell them about what you want in detail. 2. Attend this meeting next Thursday. Help us reinforce that mountain biking is responsible recreation and that CITA, as an IMBA affiliate with a decade of experience, is the best(!) resource for creating...

January meeting

January 19, 20096:00 pmto8:00 pmDes Moines-area singletrack fans have unprecendented opportunities in 2009. Please join us as we begin to plan for the year ahead… Monday, Jan. 19, 2009 Caribou Coffee on Ingersoll 6 p.m. Our agenda will focus on assigning people to help the board with important work including: 1. development of about 50 miles of new trails, including a skills project at...