Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Hoppenings

Volunteer to help do trail work on the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail – Hampton Station / West Washington Street –  October 13th – Come help spruce up the GHS SRT at the West Washington St. and Hampton Avenue area by clearing out intersection sightlines, landscaping, and maybe even working on a new trail corridor. Avison Young is sponsoring the event with FREE lunch for volunteers! It is a weekday, but Greenville County Schools are on holiday, so consider this an opportunity to instill some local outdoor stewardship in the kids, or just a good day to play hooky. Register to volunteer here.

 

Cyclo-cross racing at the Travelers Rest Farmers Market – Bring your cowbells and shopping bags to Trailblazer Park on September 10^th for the first CX race of the season. Put on by our friends at SmartStartEvents be a spectator or a racer. Kids race free. And if you see Brian Hill from SmartStartEvents thank him for nearly single-handedly building the trails you’ll enjoy before buying local honey and okra. Details and registration here.

 

Voice your opinion about traffic – Don’t complain, explain. Put the effort in to help make a change. Show up at the Long-range Transportation Plan (LRTP) input meeting. This plan covers the three county area (Greenville, Pickens & Anderson) so many voices are needed to steer (pun intended) this process. And of course transportation includes the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail and future trail expansion networks. 30,000 trips to work are logged each year on the GHS Swamp Rabbit already, wouldn’t it be great to know that because you showed onSeptember 7, 2016 from 6pm-8pm to the TD Convention Center and gave your two cents that the new LRTP includes your request for a trail connection to Marietta, to Mauldin, to Simpsonville, to Greer… So show up or shut-up about traffic. We are even serving food and if you register you could win free stuff. Can’t make it physically?

 

Need your help with trail photos – Neal needs our help as he works to update the SC Trails website. Send him a pic of any of these Greenville County Trails if you have them:

Poinsett Reservoir Passage of the Palmetto Trail, Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve, JFA, Leroy Smith, Sassy’s Pass, Mill Creek, Hospital Rock (#30),       Falls Creek Falls , Cleveland Connector (#32), Jones Gap Falls, Rim of the Gap (#6), John Sloan (#21),6 and 20 Connector Trail, Wildcat Nature, Coldspring Connector (#7), Pinnacle Pass (#20), Eva Russell Chandler, Coldspring Branch (#3), Frank Coggins (#15), Bill Kimball (#5), Tom Miller (#2), Rainbow Falls, Asbury Hills United Methodist Youth Camp, Moonshine Falls, Naturaland Trust (#14), Gum Gap (#13), Dismal (#12), Raven Cliff Falls, Kanuga, Brissy Ridge, Firetower, Sulphur Springs, Mountain Creek, Turtle, Lake Placid, Timmons Park Mountain Bike, Reedy River Falls, Fernwood Nature, Conestee Nature Park, Mauldin Park, GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail, Fountain Inn Recreational Greenway,  Gateway Park, Falls Park/Pedrick’s Garden.

Yeah that was a long list. Isn’t it great to have that many trails in one county! So help a brother out and send Neal your photos or let him know if he missed one. If you want to know more about these and other trails across the state give Neal a little bit of time and then check the new and improved SCtrails.net website.

 

It’s still hot out there, help your dog chill out – After we kick the kids out of our waterparks they go to the dogs. Waggin at the Waterpark at Discovery Island September 10^th and at Otter Creek September 24^th . Sign up before it sells out!

 

Poe Mill Skatepark – Help us pick which experienced skatepark building company should take Poe Mill from a DIY park to a 40,000 square foot professionally designed destination park. Send your choice of company name(s) for us to consider by September 7^th.  Send names to [email protected]. Then in 90 days or less we will let you know when to  come meet with the design firm to give input as they develop a feasibility study and concept rendering based on your thoughts. And if you want join fellow skaters and live right next to the park knock on the door of the old office and ask Teresa if she has an apartments available. Also, thank you to all our partners bringing the fill dirt we need. We still need more so give me a call if you have some.

 

Swamp Rabbit Music Fest – September 10^th 12pm – 10pm at Swamp Rabbit Lodge – so after you race at the CX and buy a watermelon at the Farmers Market pedal down towards Furman, find a cozy spot on the lawn at Swamp Rabbit Lodge and enjoy 11 bands, food and fun. It’s not free but if you buy tickets now, it’s less than a buck a band!

 

Dogs rejoice the Cheese-Grater Bridge is going away – and while they are replacing it with a people and pet friendly bridge over the Reedy River at Cancer Survivors Park there will be various not-as-good-as-being-on-the-trail detours to live with. Works starts Tuesday and is scheduled to wrap up in mid-March. Then there will be no more high stepping dogs and morning run wipeouts.

 

Get Out Greenville – You can use that cowbell again because there will be more CX racing to enjoy at our annual Get Out Greenville Festival October 1^st. There are also running events, a climbing wall, SUP and Kayak demo pools, a pumptrack and much more. Mark the calendar now and get all the details here.

 

Like be use a bike when in another city for work or pleasure?  – Check out Megan Ramey’s Bikabout Travel site. A great planning tool. You can also tell your out of town friends about it because Megan did a great write-up about Greenville when she came through with her family.

 

Fall color ride on the Virginia Creeper Trail – Ride both ways downhill (ya we can do that) as you bask in a cascade of falling leaves. Sign up for the Oct 20^th trip

 

Have you been pushing the button to get an 5 second headstart? – Remember to push the crosswalk button when on the GHS Swamp Rabbit Trail where it crosses Main St. in TR. Even if you are just crossing over to Sunrift or Tandem, push the botton and you’ll a 5 second head start before cars can start turning right. Thank you Bike Walk Greenville, Sprague and Sprague Engineering, City of TR and SC DOT.

 

Use a bell or announce when you pass from behind – If you need a rhyme to help you remember…. “Don’t be an ______, announce when you pass”