Announcements

2009 Oct 02

GHORBA 10th Year Anniversary Weekend at Double Lake Oct 10-11

All members, friends and corporate supporters of GHORBA are welcome!

Can you believe it? GHORBA is 10 years old this fall. We sure have come a long way from our formation in 1999 out of the joining of Houston Area Mountain Bike Riders (HAMBRA) and the Memorial Park riders groups and the epic fight to save access to the trails in Memorial Park.

The work to maintain and increase access continues: we’ve come a long way since we started and we probably have some of our most exciting opportunities on the horizon. We’re inviting our previous leaders – Chris Case is coming down – and our local bike shops and of course all of our members.

Saturday some of us are going to do the “Sam Houston Long March” – riding from Double Lake to Huntsville and back through the Sam Houston National Forest and Sunday we’ll take interested folks on a tour of where the new trails are laid out for the DL expansion. Lots more fun to be had ….

Saturday night is party night – some dinner and a coupla brews, and mountain bike movies of course.

Sunday, we’re going to take people out for a tour of where the new trails are going to be built to the east and SE of DL. There’ll be a few other activities, but the main thing is do some riding and have a few laughs over a couple of beers and celebrate what went before and what we have in the future – which is quite a lot.

Celebration starts Saturday at 6pm; rides start Friday Night!

  • Free dinner and adult malted beverages (Saturday) for all current members.
  • Free camping in group campsite for current members.
  • Limited Edition T-shirts Available for $10.00 (only 100 printed!)

Note: Except for Saturday night, meals and beverages are on your own. Park day/use, non-group camping fees are also on your own.

Schedule of Events

Friday

  • Camping and Night Ride

Saturday

  • Epic Ride from Double Lake to Huntsville State Park and back. We’re calling it: “The Sam Houston Long March.” SAG supported – 9 am
  • Group Ride – 10 am
  • 10th Anniversary Celebration – 6 pm: Fun Games and Events; Dinner; Awards; Movie; Night Ride

Sunday

  • Group Ride – 9 am
  • Tour of proposed 2010 multi-use trail addition – 9:30 am

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  1. I just updated the schedule and sent out an evite to gauge how many can come. If you’re a paying member, please let us know if you’re coming via the evite response.

    By: Veljko
    Oct 2

  2. It looks like we have a lot of old email addresses for paying members… so if you are a paying member but did not get the evite, please click on my name for the link to an invitation and RSVP!!!!!

    By: Veljko
    Oct 3

  3. I joined today, would like to camp out sat evening and join the ride sunday morning.

    By: john
    Oct 6

  4. I just posted a poll about the ride... so we can organize [i]one-way rides[/i] for those who think riding both ways is too much.

    That way someone can drop their car off at HSP, ride back to DL, and have some other rider who’s doing a one-way from DL to HSP drive their car back to DL….

    By: Veljko Roskar
    Oct 7