202510 Oct Newsletter
2025 October Monthly Newsletter
Next trail maintenance day is Oct 26
We always need volunteers for the trail maintenance days and highly encourage riders to come out and help. Trail days are typically the last Sunday of each month. We meet in the staging area around 9:30, organize into groups and then head out for around 10am. We rarely ride in to do trail work – we typically drive and hike in. Many locations will require a truck to get to. If you don’t have a 4×4/truck, you can always leave the car in staging and hop in with somebody else. Come prepared with proper clothing and footwear, bring a snack and water – the club will provide all the tools necessary.
2026 club memberships on sale in the online store
2026 Memberships are on sale in the online store (https://bluemountainmotorcycleclub.com/store).
On or around January 1st, the gate code will change. 2026 members will receive an email with the new gate code, if you don’t get this email, check your junk mail folder, if it’s not there, then email: [email protected]
CMA Nomination
The Blue Mountain Motorcycle Club has been informed that it has been nominated for the Canadian Motorcycle Association’s Environment award. Results of the voting are to be released in January.
Traction e-Rag/BCORMA interview
Ryan Thom, club President will be interviewed by Traction e-Rag on behalf of BCORMA this month. We’ll post the resulting article when it’s published.
Future woodlot harvesting
The club received a response to our questions re the referral for more logging at Blue Mountain. We continue to work with Chartwell Resource Group to preserve trails and minimize impact on the trail system as much as possible. There are some very old logging roads that will likely be re-established – the club is working on something of an ‘exchange’ program where trails exist on select old logging roads that will be re-established, to allow us to create new singletrack trails that somewhat parallel the old logging road, thus giving us more singletrack mileage. The club will continue to have on-site meetings with the loggers in upcoming cut-blocks to establish set backs and overall preservation of the trails.
Maple Ridge 256 North industrial lands
Ryan Thom and Rick Green (Pres and VP, respectively) attended a Phase 2 meeting of the Maple Ridge 256 North Industrial lands use program. At this point, it doesn’t appear that there will be any impact on any of the trails that are situation on Municipal lands.
Winter trail closures
In the upcoming weeks a number of trails will get closed for the winter, as they do not survive well with the winter/wet season riding. They will be closed with a sign and typically with orange snow fence. Please do not go around the closure and ride the closed trails. They will re-open again in the spring once the weather improves. We don’t like (temporarily) closing any trails, but past experience has shown that a number of trails are particularly at risk of severe damage if ridden in the winter months.
World Supercross ticket giveaway
World Supercross is in Vancouver on Nov 15th. Go to this post on Facebook, like it and tag a friend to be entered into a draw for 2 WSX tickets – to be drawn Oct 31st:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/105638262837982/permalink/24528105993497869
More info: https://worldsupercrosschampionship.com/events/vancouver-2025/
Wet Weather riding guide
Now that the wet/winter weather is upon us, please refer to the wet weather riding guide on the main page of the club’s website. It’s important to use riding practices that preserve the trails as much as possible during the wet winter months.
AGM in December
The Annual General Meeting will be held in December. Exact date TBD. It’s where the executives get elected/re-elected, and other club business is discussed. The club provides appies (free food!). If you want to know more about the club and/or are interested in getting involved, come on out! We’ll be appointing members of the Trail Committee at the meeting – if you’re interested in becoming part of the trail committee, this is your opportunity!
Thank you to our volunteers and paid members
Next trail day will be Oct 26th – the club takes some time off from scheduled trail days for the summer – mostly needing a break after all the time and work put into prepping for the ROAE. The club has logged over 1400 volunteer hours so far in 2025. Come on out and help build the legacy that is Blue Mountain. If you do volunteer trail work (outside of regular Trail Maintenance days as time is tracked by the crew leaders), please log your time at: BMMC.ca/time
Also, check out the club’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BlueMountainMotorcycleClub