The great Tasmanian blue gum and its management on Mt Sutro, By Jake Sigg The Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus, is surely one of the world’s great trees, but in recent decades it has become the center of controversy in California. This controversy—most of it uninformed—has unfortunately obscured the tree’s merits and its proper use. [...]
What’s going on? UCSF is seeking funding from FEMA to do a large maintenance project in the Mt. Sutro Open Space area. The UC wants to remove many Eucalyptus trees to make the grove and forest sustainable, by reducing risk of fire or trees toppling from earthquakes. (While generally a moist area, it does experience [...]
This past Sunday, October 4th, SFUR hosted Take A Kid Mountain biking Day in San Francisco’s McLaren Park. It was a great turnout, with 16 participants in age from 6 – 14 showing up to ride, and plenty of family members to share the fun. For many this was their first off road biking adventure [...]
For the edification of our viewership, I thought I might share a few things I learned upon a recent road trip adventure to the single speed mountain bike world championships. Pack Less: No matter how well you organize your goods, two weeks of four people living out of one car gets chaotic. Its better to [...]
IMBA’s International Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day celebrates the life of Jack Doub, an avid teenage mountain biker from North Carolina who had a true passion for the sport from an early age but passed away in 2002. You can read more about his story here Funding is provided by the Jack Doub Memorial [...]
Sure, you could go somewhere. You could sit in a metal box, around a bunch of other metal boxes on a large cement strip and bake in the heat. Or, you could come and (work) party with a three year old. That three year old is the Mt. Sutro Stewards trail and habitat restoration program. [...]
SF Urban Riders. More and more people know about us, but it still seems to be a relatively small group involved. If you ride in San Francisco, or anywhere else in the bay area, and like the concept of contributing to advocacy efforts, we’d love to hear from you. Currently, I’m just one guy doing [...]
Mt. Sutro. SF Urban Riders. SF Rec and Park. Mt. Sutro Stewards. Trails. People. Video. All wonderful things. Put them together, and you get:
Why do we think the way we do? As I read various texts, from the newspaper’s sensationalist journalism to my favorite surreal fictionalists, I get this sense that far too many people are far too confident that they know what makes the world go round. Personally, I’m more of the opinion that people are impressively [...]
Trails don’t happen by themselves. Yet trails are happening in our backyard, and SF Urban Riders is looking forward to supporting SF Rec and Park and Volunteers for outdoor California. We get to have a lot of fun with acronyms at SFUR as we support VOCAL and SFRPD in this trail building extravaganza. It’s coming [...]
