image_67233537.JPG (copy) JAMAICA — A skills park is being built on land around Jamaica Village School to introduce more people to mountain biking and build community.
Karen Ameden of Jamaica Area Mountain Bike Alliance said her group has a land use agreement with the West River Education District to create the park.
"We have started breaking ground with a professional trail building team and we’ve started fundraising," she said at a recent WRED Board meeting. "It seems to all be working out very well."
Ameden and Heidi Pancake started JAMBA in 2019. Ameden told the Reformer the group has "made good progress and are really in the middle of working to make connections to different corners of Jamaica and into our surrounding town, trying to make these connections and trails with our neighbors."
"We are excited about this mountain biking skills loop that is going in," she said.
About of years ago, JAMBA President Jason Rickles moved from Woodstock to Jamaica. He had been part of another Vermont Mountain Bike Association chapter.
Getting involved in Jamaica was "really exciting because there’s this very nascent chapter down here," Rickles said. He wants to promote mountain bike culture in the community. ‘Celebratory laps’: Jamaica Area Mountain Bike Alliance to open first trail ‘Celebratory laps’: Jamaica Area Mountain Bike Alliance to open first trail JAMAICA — Jamaica Area Mountain Bike Alliance’s first trail is about to open at Ball Mountai…When Rickles joined JAMBA, the group had just secured a land access deal with the federal government to […]
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