Benefits

1. Your membership dues help create more quality trails for you to use. This means you'll find new trails to explore.
2. Meet new people who love trails in the woods through the online Forum or at STAB events.
3. Having a strong local trail advocacy organization gives us a greater voice in issues important to trail users that will help with land access and landowner relations.
4. Learn how to properly build and maintain trails.
5. Improve your bike handling skills.

Dues Pay for:

1. Trail construction and maintenance. This is where the vast majority of the $$ goes. We've now purchased a few $100 worth of trail tools, lumber and materials, and trail markers to post in STAB Mountainside.  We also spend about $15-20 each trail work day on food and drink for volunteers. All of this comes together to make more miles of sweet, legal trails in the area.
2. IMBA and VMBA chapter dues, including our contribution to the VMBA Landowner Support Fund. These organizations support mountain biking on a broad scale, including interaction with the State and Feds to lobby for MTB-friendly policies. These two combined are about $150/yr.
3. This STAB website, becoming the central source for information about local trails.
4. Little miscellaneous stuff (postage, paper, ink, etc.)

1. Ride, Hike, Ski Open Trails Only
2. Leave No Trace
3. Control Your Bicycle, Self and Pets
4. Always Yield the Trail
5. Never Scare the Animals
6. Plan Ahead

The purpose of STAB (Sport Trails of Ascutney Basin) is to advocate for continued accessibility of low-impact, local trails, used for multiple non-motorized sports, in West Windsor, Hartland, Reading, and Windsor, through mutual cooperation with landowners, other local organizations, state and local officials and conservation groups.

To educate all parties involved with respect to environmentally sound methods of responsible trail usage, building, and maintenance.

We seek permissions from private and public landowners to create and maintain sport trails.