Giving Tuesday

How does supporting TAMBA help Tahoe trails?

In 2022 your TAMBA memberships and donations helped deliver:

100 miles of trail maintained across 30 individual trails
300+ down trees cleared
3 miles of new trail constructed
4,000 paid crew hours
6 bridges constructed
Almost 4,000 volunteer trail hours from 437 individual volunteers
172 assorted volunteer days
328 youth volunteer and stewardship hours
1,000 non-trail work volunteer hours from TAMBA Board of Directors and Leadership Team

Updates

Member and Volunteer Appreciation Party

Thank you to Heavenly Mountain Resort and staff for hosting our annual Fall Member and Volunteer Recognition Party. We had an amazing turnout from the local community and celebrated with the showing of an “Everest in Tahoe” and “Mountain State” with Josh Daiek. What an awesome way to celebrate a great summer season on our Tahoe trails and set the tone for an exciting winter on the local slopes!

Bijou Bike Park

2023 pump track project!

TAMBA has applied for and been awarded two grants for $18,000 toward paving the pump track at the Bike Park. The pump track is the most popular track in our local community for young riders to learn to ride a bike. On any day, you will see new riders on strider bikes and bike riders learning new skills on the track. We will continue fundraising toward our goal of $60,000 to pave the track so that it is accessible for year-round riding.

BMX Track Operator
South Lake Tahoe has an amazing BMX track that has hosted several very successful State Championship events along with a host of very fun weekly races. Our local BMX track has welcomed many new local riders and racers to bike riding and racing over the years. Our track is now without an operator for the coming season, so weekly races are unknown at this time. On behalf of all the upcoming new racers, riders, and local stalwarts, we would like to help spread the word that our track is looking for an operator for the coming season. You can email us at info@tamba.org, and we will do our best to answer questions or introduce you to the right folks.

Advocacy

Are you in the market for eBike or eMTB? Here are some riding tips and a buying guide with some helpful information about the different classes of e-bikes. TAMBA is looking forward to the Basin Wide Trails Analysis Project being released by the LTBMU in 2023. The current proposed action would change 87 miles of trail to allow class 1 e-bike access. We will update you on its progress as we learn more information from LTBMU.

2023 Trail Projects

We’re deep into planning our trail projects around the Tahoe Basin for next year. We’ll be continuing many of the projects we started this year as well as breaking ground on some exciting new trails. We’ll start publishing 2023 dig days in January, but if you’d like to plan a unique workday with your friends or coworkers let us know! Reach out to us at trails@tamba.org and we can put together a trail day for your company or organization. Find out more about all our current trail projects here and announcements of new projects.

Here are some of the projects on tap for 2023:

Bijou Bike Park – pave the pump track!
Caldor Repairs ongoing
Road 73 Bypass Trail
Kaspian Rim Trail
Lower Tyrolian Reroute
Meeks Ridge Trail
Stinger Advanced Lines
Lower Stinger Reroute
Lower Corral Upgrades
Corral Uphill Trail
Tunnel Creek Singletrack
Signage Improvements
General trail maintenance

Warehouse space wanted!
We have outgrown our current tool and equipment storage and are actively looking for a 600-1000 square foot warehouse. If you know of any available spaces in the South Lake Tahoe area, please let us know!