Greetings!

Summertime is often the best season on the Tamarancho Trails when the cool mornings and warm afternoons help maintain dry and compact surfaces, and the vegetation fully leafed-out. If you neglected to renew earlier this year, don't hesitate to renew your pass membership NOW at DISCOUNT PRICING before heading back out along Fairfax Ridge, among the most scenic places in Marin to escape to the beautiful outdoors on your mountain bike!

As a concerned member of the mountain-biking community, read through this e-newsletter to find out how you can be a better recreation steward or get involved as a volunteer to have more fun out on the trails! Special thanks to those riders who have reported trail hazards and other conditions needing attention; you can always find regular updates on the Scouts' Tamarancho webpage or at the local Tamarancho Report!

Camp Tamarancho Bathrooms/Water Access

In addition to the water-filling system at the Camp front gate kiosk by the J-8 intersection of Broken Dam & Goldman Trails, remember that there are two easy locations on the Tamarancho Trail Loop for your convenience where riders are allowed near the regular camp facilities to access the new flushing(!) toilets and adjacent hand-wash/water-filling stations on the Scout Camp property. Please help us maintain these bathrooms and keep them clean and in good working order for all users!

The Southern access is located at the J-2 intersection of Goldman and Serpentine Trails (shown in photo at left) leading north a quarter-mile along the fire road through rolling meadows to the Twin Cities Group Campground.

The Northern access is located at the J-7 intersection on Broken Dam Trail not far from the Dan Hennessey memorial bench. The trail leads uphill on a fire road 100+ yards through the forest to a chain gate at the Ghilotti Family Camping area.

Tamarancho Trails Pass Patrol Volunteers

All mountain-bike riders at Camp Tamarancho must have a current One-Day pass, or an ANNUAL or GOLD membership pass with them. Some riders have day pass stickers from a bike store, some have the plastic membership tags attached to their bikes or packs, and others have a pass receipt saved on their cell phone. Expect to see volunteer Tamarancho Pass Patrol members in bright safety vests checking passes on the trails. These volunteers will also be available to give directions, answer questions, and handout information about the membership program.

Support the "Friends of Tamarancho". Make sure you and your friends are all riding with a current pass! Overall compliance has been fairly good this year, but there are still a number of riders "poaching" on the private property of the Marin Council, Scouting America. This is a youth recreation facility, and by law it is considered to be the same as school grounds regarding youth protection from strangers and unknown adult trespassers in the vicinity. Get a Friends of Tamarancho Pass NOW and Ride Legally!

Remember: "Friends don't let Friends Poach on Tamarancho!"

History of the Tamarancho Trails Network

When you are visiting Fairfax village to ride the Tamarancho loop, don't forget to stop downtown at the Marin Museum of Bicycling and the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame to check out the amazing history of this outdoor recreation activity home-grown right here in Marin County! Also, enjoy this updated recording of the very popular June 2018 Museum Speakers Series presentation:

Video link on YouTube: The Bicycle Trails of Tamarancho!

You'll hear the amazing story of how the Tamarancho mountain bike trail network was built directly from the people who built them! Featuring local legends of the Forest Knolls Freewheelers including Jim Jacobson, Danny Forer and Vernon Huffman!

www.boyscouts-marin.org | Kiosk on Iron Springs Road, Fairfax, California