COPMOBA’s 2023 Annual Report

COPMOBA’s 2023 Annual Report is here!

On behalf of the Board of Directors of COPMOBA, thank you to our business sponsors, individual members, donors, volunteers and others for your support of COPMOBA in 2023! We are a volunteer organization consisting of four chapters (Grand Valley Canyons, Delta Area Mountain Bikers, Montrose Uncompahgre Trails and Ridgway Area Trails) governed by a Board of Directors with one part-time administrator. Your donations of time, money and support make our organization work.

Also, thanks to our amazing community partners – federal agencies, state agencies, counties, municipalities and local businesses and organizations. Planning and building trails has become an intensely complicated, expensive and time-consuming process. We can only make trails happen through ongoing collaboration.

Building on momentum from 2022, this was a year of foundation building for COPMOBA. We are proud to have navigated the organization through a brand and website refresh, added 26 newly trained Crew Leaders across our chapters, and hosted one of the most successful RAT Races yet. We also hosted multiple Stoke Nights and social events across our four chapters.

In the field, we hosted 51 Dig Day events, contributed 3500+ volunteer hours, and facilitated 8 miles of new, purpose-built singletrack. This resulted in better trail experiences across the Western Slope and completing the Electric Hills trail project, something that has been in the works for nearly 10 years. We also helped support trail expansion efforts at 18 Road and Kokopelli and have approval to construct five more miles at the RAT trails in Ridgway. We are incredibly proud and grateful of these accomplishments.

As we look ahead to 2024, we are excited to have four new Board members joining the organization and will be improving our CRM database and membership software so that we can support existing and new memberships more effectively. We hope these changes improve your experience and position the organization to support our near- and long-term growth ambitions.

Additionally, we are eager to extend our partnerships with business partners and public land managers in 2024. We look forward to continued collaboration on maintaining our existing trails and advancing our pipeline of exciting trail projects across each of our community-driven chapters – i.e., Cerro Summit (MUT), RAT (RAT), Smith Mountain (DAMB), 18 Road (GVC), and planning for Kokopelli Trails expansion (GVC).

With your help, we look forward to supporting these opportunities in 2024 and if you would like to meet and talk about COPMOBA in 2024, please get in touch with me or one of our passionate board members. We would be happy to connect and discuss how we can do more to positively impact the trails and mountain bike community of western Colorado.

Thank you again for your support and we’re looking forward to an exciting year ahead!

 – John Howe, President, COPMOBA Board of Directors

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