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Welcome! |
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Eastern Oregon All Terrain Vehicle Association, Inc P.O. Box 571 La Grande, Oregon 97850
Email: mbarber@eoni.com Message Phone: 541-805-0172 |
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EOATVA OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS
President– Chris Hedden 963-4300 Vice President– Larry Cribbs 963-4521 Sec/Treas– Mark Barber 963-8147 mbarber@eoni.com Ray Clements 963-9837 Art Chase 963-2585 Don Proffit 963-3297 George Aldrich |
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Next meeting: To be announced, 7 P.M., Island City, City Hall |
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Announcements: UPDATES I will be updating the website less often through the winter. I will post updates to facebook when I need to. When the Travel Management Plan comes out, I will update things here also, and we may try to have a meeting to discuss how we want to respond. Check back here on occasion, just in case I have changed something. YOUTH MOTORCYCLE TRAINING April 22, 2012 there will be a youth hands-on motorcycle training held at the Union County Fairgrounds. This course, as well as the on-line Safety Education Course will be required for all motorcycle riders between the ages of 7 and 15, starting in 2012. Oregon Motorcycle Riders Association (OMRA) is the coordinating organization for this course, but it the responsibility of the local clubs to provide the actual training. OMRA will be working with EOATVA, as well as individuals in Wallowa and Baker Counties to provide this training on an ongoing basis. This first training session will also be to train evaluators for future training sessions. We would like to see several evaluators trained, so that we would have more flexibility in scheduling training. I will post more information in the near future. For now you can go to http://www.omraoffroad.com/training.htm for information on the course, and for on-line Safety Training go to http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/ATV/safety.shtml
MERA The new ATV trail (#11) is signed and is OK to ride, from the parking lot up to road 13. This looks like it will be a fun trail, once it has been ridden a little to get it broke in. They have installed new vaulted toilets at the Fox Hill parking lot. They aren’t quite finished with them yet, but they will be a big improvement over the port-a-potties. We have had trouble getting new trail approved to be built, due to the need for a “cultural study” in most of the areas we are ready to start building trail, or as in one case have already built a trail. The County is applying for a grant to fund a study of all the high probability areas on MERA. If they get the funding and have the study done, we won’t have to wait around for a study to be completed on each piece of trail. That will really speed the trail approval process up. Even if they get the grant, I don’t see where they can have the study done and the paper work completed before late next summer or fall. So, we (EOATVA) are pursuing having a study done for the area where we have already laid out a motorcycle trail. If everything works out, and the study is completed when we hope, we will be able to open this new section of trail next spring. It would also allow us to extend the ATV trail from Rd 13, across to Rd 3 next spring. We have been playing games with getting approval for building trails for too long now. I don’t want to have to wait another year to get more trail opened up to ride.
EOATVA is now on facebook. If you are already on facebook please “like” our page. It just makes it easy to stay in contact with other club members. You can then find out if someone is going on a ride, or let others know that you are going. You can also share photos of your ride. I’m trying to post trail updates the day I find out about them. That is sooner than my weekly update here. We have 32“LIKES”. Can we get more? I have put together a photo album of all the trail work we have done on MERA on MERA over the last three years and posted it on facebook. There a some big gaps in what I have photos of, as I didn’t always take my camera, but it gives you an idea of how much work we have done and redone over that time. There are a few new pictures posted in various places on the site. You’ll just have to look for them. Hint, some of them are at the bottom of the “Links” page. |
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Last update, 12/10/11 |




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New ATV trail |
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Just above Rd 12 |
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Further up the hill |
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This little STEEP section still needs cut into the hill. |
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This is after they finished cutting the bank. |
