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There are thousands of acres of open space in Santa Cruz County on the table including the Nisene Marks State Park, Henry Cowell, Wilder/Gray Whale, UCSC, DeLaveaga and the Coast Dairies property. MBOSC is your strongest voice for more multi-use trails in these areas and to make that voice stronger, we need to work together to build MBOSC's membership and fight against those who don't want multi-use trails in your parks.

Please join MBOSC and get involved with our efforts. Consider volunteering some of their time to fill these needed positions. These jobs don't take much of your time and can be fun and extremely rewarding.

• Soquel/Aptos Trailwork Coordinator/Advocates: Do you ride often in Nisene Marks SP or the Soquel State Demonstration Forest? MBOSC needs to expand our trailwork and advocacy efforts to develop new multi-use trails in these areas in the future. Individuals are needed to attend trail policy meetings and work with land managers to plan trail work events.
• Schwag Coordinator/Bike Shop Liaison(s): Do you spend a lot of time in bike shops each month? We need an interested individual or individuals who could periodically visit area bike shops to inform them of MBOSC's trailwork events and request swag for volunteers.
• Club Ride/Trip Coordinator: There are many fantastic trails throughout SC County and California to ride on! In addition to our Saturday rides in Wilder Ranch, we need someone interested in leading rides and coordinating trips.
• Trail Information Station Coordinator and Volunteers: Meeting other riders on the trails is a great way to tell others about trail access issues and give out information about upcoming trail closures and trail policy meetings. This is a very easy task, just hang out and talk to trail users about access issues.
• Writers: Do you like to write about fun biking trips or races? Do you have useful tips about mountain biking for other riders? We can always use content for the web site.
• Graphic Artists: Are you creative? Do you like to create cool graphics? MBOSC can always use people for designing graphics for posters, jerseys and membership swag.

Please contact Mark at if you want to be more involved in MBOSC and help with any of our ongoing projects.

Becoming a member of MBOSC helps us to pay our hard expenses like web hosting, office suplies, insurance, IMBA membership dues and event costs.

Mountain bikers are members of the public and we have the right to enjoy the public lands in the manner that we wish to recreate. Representing a greater number of mountain bikers increases our leverage in negotiations with elected officials and land managers. Please consider joining MBOSC so that our collective voices can be heard.

MBOSC Membership Form

Please download and print the following form (Adobe Acrobat PDF), and then send it with a check or money order to:

Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We will write you a donation reciept if requested.

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The MBOSC mailing list is a forum of discussion and a source of news about issues which affect mountain bikers who enjoy the lands of Santa Cruz County.

The list discusses land access issues, trailwork status and recruitment. Plus the usual fun stuff like current rides and trips and what it means to be a mountain biker in Santa Cruz.

To join the list, send a message to . Messages sent to will be sent to all the members of the list.

The traffic is pretty light so it won't overwhelm your inbox. The list gets *no* spam, because it is both subscription-moderated (no one can join unless a human approves it) and membership-semi-moderated (only list-members' messages are sent out to the whole list automatically; other messages are seen and must be approved by a human).

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