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Yo, I was just on the Lehigh Valley Mountain Biker's site, www.bikevmb.com, and they have a map section under their picture section, which has maps to their local rides, which were from a GPS & google maps. 

We should do this!?!?  It looks cool!

Oh, does anyone want to ride at Salibury in Bethlemham, PA at 4:00 today?

Paul,

I've actually already proposed doing this, actually creating an interactive google map for the park which would mark all the parking areas as well.  We could create a maps section with ease, just need the maps!

Chris

didn't some people say that they had some in the thread that was discussing using the
GPS system in the Wiss?

http://www.phillymtb.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,33/topic,234.0

Hey - I'd be willing to help pull together the maps.  I have pretty decent GPS tracks from the RiV planning, which we can easily lay onto a Google Earth image.  I also took a bunch of pictures along the trails, geotagged their locations in the EXIF headers and created a KMZ file that shows the pictures on a GE image at the locations where they were taken. 

There are some pretty cool ideas at Crankfire (http://www.crankfire.com/trails/trail.php?trailid=60) and MTBGuru (http://www.mtbguru.com/) that we might try to emulate if we can, such as downloadable GPS tracks and trailhead locators.  I don't know how much is possible thru the website, but we can certainly gather the data.

Jon

I like the mtbguru site the best and how it's laid out with attached pictures. The comments on each picture of the CT site was too much. We've got the forum for that! When can we have a section on the site with this?

Yooooooo a few of us are goin up to ride the sweet loop at Salisbury SUNDAY 8/3 around 10 or 11am. THis place is real fun and it's all trails on the side of the pretty sweet Lehigh Valley formations. THey have real nicely kept trails on real rocky terrain. They built some sweet berms (banked turns) from stone and dirt and you can rail them real nice. Let me know if you wanna go and we can zero in on meeting place. Medium pace were not out racin but we will ride swiftly. No crashing allowed.  ;)

If it means 10am ride time, I'm down.  I've never been but it's been on my radar for a while. 

Karl

going to hit wiss instead

Yo Karl, you sure you wanna hit Wiss? We are gonna meet at the Wawa at the Quakertown exit of PA TPK at 11am. Not sure if that's too late for you, let me know...

Yo.... awesome time today. Good trails, good guys, good beers, good times.

yea those trails are awesome! hardcore. That club is awesome. They obtained permission from the township to build all those trails, and they are really nicely laid out. We can build stuff like that in the Wiss I am sure. Good times!

Was riding with some guys I haven't seen in a while - crowded as hell though.  Now I remember why I don't go there on weekends unless there's an event.

YEa the Wiss is like the Schuylkill Expressway on nice weekends. Definitely try to avoid weekends, at least in prime hours. We saw like 5 people at most in Bethlehem. And those guys decided to be our guides and show us all the good trails!