The Era of Megafires – Hood River, White Salmon, Stevenson

Posted on May 11, 2017 by 44trails

The Era of Megaﬁres is a 60-minute, multi-media presentation hosted by Dr. Paul Hessburg, who has conducted ﬁre and landscape ecology research for more than 27 years. The presented material comes in the form of fast-moving, short, topic-based talks interspersed with compelling video vignettes and features the work of wildﬁre photographer, John Marshall. Think Ted X mixed with snappy documentary shorts and compelling photography. The videos are produced by award-winning documentary ﬁlm company, North 40 Productions, of Wenatchee, WA.

The presentation is designed to educate audiences across the West so that they may better participate in the conversation and solutions surrounding the Megaﬁre issue.

May 22 – Stevenson, WA – 7pm Stevenson High School

May 23 – Underwood, WA – 7pm Underwood Community Center

May 24 – Hood River, OR – 7pm Hood River Middle School

Summer 2017 Trail Work Schedule

Posted on March 27, 2017 by 44trails

February 2017 in Hood River

It’s been quite a winter in the Hood River Valley and on Mt Hood National Forest. Record low elevation snowfall has kept us off our bikes longer than normal this year and, barring some drastic shift to warm and sunny weather, access to the 44 Trails mountain bike trails is going to be later than many of us are used to seeing.

Snow at the FR 44 / HWY 35 junction as of March 24

Nonetheless, we have some great projects lined up for the summer and want your help to make them productive! So here’s our tentative work schedule to add to your calendar and summer planning:

May TBA – Fund Raising Event in Hood River – more info to follow

July 22 trail work – location tba – likely new Surveyor’s Ridge connector trail

Aug 12 trail work – location tba – likely new Surveyor’s Ridge connector trail

Sept 23 trail work – location tba

October 7 trail work – location tba

Charley’s Trail Work Party

Posted on October 21, 2016 by 44trails

Help us do some general maintenance on Charley’s Trail in Post Canyon!

Who is Charley? Charley LaVenture – mountain biker, surfer, father, husband, potter and much more – lived in Hood River from 1975-2009 following his passion life. He and his wife Sally touched many lives in HR and, sadly, Charley died in 2009 of a rare form of Leukemia. Charley inspired many of us with his love for life and family. Charley’s Trail is one small way we like to honor his memory. Read his obituary from the HR News

Trail Work Day September 24 – Handbuilt Singletrack Mt Hood

Posted on September 6, 2016 by 44trails

Trail Work Day – Cooks Meadow Singletrack Mt Hood

The 44 Trails zone just got its first significant rainfall in many weeks. This bodes well for trail conditions on the biggest network of handbuilt singletrack Mt Hood has to offer and for the 44 Trails Association trail work day on September 24.

We’ve had two great trail days to build out the new Cooks Meadow extension trail and we will focus our efforts on Saturday September 24 to finalize the new singletrack trail.

Hardhats (bike helmets ok), long pants, work gloves and work boots REQUIRED!

WHEN:
Saturday Sept 24, 2016 @ 9am – 2pm
Meet 9am @ Little John SnoPark on Highway 35
We’ll have coffee thanks to Dog River Coffee in HR and sign-in at the SnoPark and then move up to the work site as a group. Lunch will be provided by NY City Subs in Hood River.

PROJECT:
Handbuilt singletrack on Cooks Meadow Extension trail.

We will be putting in the final connection and will need FLAT SHOVELS, METAL RAKES and McLEODS.

Want to know more about the trail? check out the map