Nittany Mountain Biking Association

🚵‍♂️🌲 BUILDING SAFER TRAILS. BUILDING A STRONGER COMMUNITY. 🌲🚵‍♀️

The Nittany Mountain Biking Association (NMBA) is committed to more than building, maintaining, and advocating for great trails. We’re committed to making sure our riders, volunteers, and trail users have a safer experience every time they head into Rothrock State Forest.

That’s why we want to give a HUGE THANK YOU to Clearwater Conservancy and Olivia Stas for their generous support in funding Red Cross CPR/AED and First Aid for Severe Trauma (FAST) training for NMBA leadership.

💙 Your support makes a difference.

Because of Clearwater Conservancy’s investment in NMBA, the following officers and board members are now trained and certified to respond and provide care in the event of a crash, injury, or other emergency:

🩹 Willard Jackson - President
🩹 Dominic Daniels - Vice President
🩹 Rob Brawley - Treasurer
🩹 Jeff Molek - Trail Maintenance Director
🩹 Mary Angle - Webmaster
🩹 Jonathan Mayer - Board Member

This training was led by Kealy Daye, CPRP, Education Manager at the Pennsylvania Recreation & Parks Society (PRPS). We greatly appreciate Kealy and PRPS for providing our team with the knowledge, hands-on skills, and confidence to act when seconds count.

🌲 Trail safety is a shared responsibility.

Whether we're building trails, clearing hazards, leading rides, supporting events, or simply enjoying the outdoors, emergencies can happen. Having trained people in our organization who are prepared to respond can make a critical difference.

Clearwater Conservancy’s support is helping NMBA take an important step toward creating a safer, more prepared trail community. We are incredibly grateful for their partnership and commitment to supporting outdoor recreation and the people who make it possible.

🙌 Thank you, Clearwater Conservancy and Olivia Stas, for investing in NMBA and helping us make trail safety a priority!

And thank you to Kealy Daye and PRPS for helping prepare our team to respond when our community needs us most.

🚵 Take care of the trails. Take care of each other. Ride prepared. Ride safe.

A HUGE thank you to the Centre County Crows for coming out with 27 volunteers this past Saturday to work on the trails at Harvest Fields!

You did an amazing job building up berms and raking out debris on Bomb Voyage and Ascension!

And thank you to Calvary Church for providing a tasty lunch for all of the hard working volunteers!

Join the Centre County Crows for a morning of Trail Work @ Harvest Fields this Saturday.

We've got all the tools and gear! Just show up with some comfortable clothes/shoes and a water bottle. 😎

Meet at the white barn parking lot at 9 AM. Lunch will be provided at 11:30 AM.

RSVP on the NMBA website so we have a headcount for lunch.

A huge thank you to Calvary Youth Group who came out last night to help with trail work at the Hamer Bike Park @ Harvest Fields. They did an amazing job on the beginner loop - building up the berm and re-defining rollers. They also did tons of weeding at the park entrance and pulled invasive ragweed from the newly planted wild flower beds.

Sunsets and expansive flower field views topped off a great evening!

Our work event scheduled for Sunday has been postponed a week to Sunday 8/23. Hopefully drier weather will allow us to handle some overgrown vegetation then!

Join NMBA and Calvary Youth Group for some Trail Work at Hamer Bike Park @ Harvest Fields

Tuesday, August 18
5:30-8PM

RSVP by Saturday (8/15) on the NMBA website

We'll be cutting back overgrown trails next Sunday, 8/16 on Dylan's Path, Tussey Mountain Trail, and other popular mountain bike trails. Meet us at Tussey Ski Area at 10am to join us! We'll plan to work until 2pm and then enjoy a free lunch on NMBA.

NMBA sends a huge thank you to Penelec Linemen from Lewistown, who trimmed back Greenshoot this July!

NMBA volunteers participated in a free chainsaw training provided by DCNR last Friday in Rothrock. DCNR is offering the same class this upcoming Friday 6/19, and there are a few spots left!
- At New Alan Seeger Picnic Area from 8 AM - 12 PM
- No prior experience with chainsaws is required
- If you participate in the class and get your certificate, NMBA would be happy to give you access to chainsaws for work in Rothrock!

RSVP via the DCNR volunteer opportunity link is required in advance—see our page or recent member email for the link.

NMBA will also be holding our next Trail Love event on Sunday 6/28 at Tussey Ski Area in coordination with The Bicycle Shop — mark your calendars!
- It’ll be from 10am - 2pm, and we’ll brush cut Tussey Mountain Trail and Lonberger.

NMBA volunteers participated in a free chainsaw training provided by DCNR last Friday in Rothrock. DCNR is offering the same class this upcoming Friday 6/19, and there are a few spots left!
- At New Alan Seeger Picnic Area from 8 AM - 12 PM
- No prior experience with chainsaws is required
- If you participate in the class and get your certificate, NMBA would be happy to give you access to chainsaws for work in Rothrock!

RSVP via this link is required in advance:
https://dcnrvolunteers.pa.gov/need/detail/?need_id=1268275

NMBA will also be holding our next Trail Love event on Sunday 6/28 at Tussey Ski Area in coordination with The Bicycle Shop -- mark your calendars!
- It'll be from 10am - 2pm, and we'll brush cut Tussey Mountain Trail and Lonberger.

This week at Harvest Fields brought both incredible stoke and some frustration.

The stoke:
Over 25 elementary school kids have been ripping around the trails through Happy Valley Women’s Cycling youth camps—building skills, confidence, and friendships.

The frustration:
This week, e-moto bikes caused thousands of dollars of damage to the bike park. Riding in the wet is already against our guidelines, and only human-powered bikes and Class 1 pedal-assisted e-mountain bikes are allowed even on dry days. If you see anything, report activity to the State College Police at 814‑234‑7150 and reference case . We know the people doing this are probably kids, so try to be educational rather than confrontational, and remind them that they’d look way cooler on mountain bikes.