Originally Posted by Beverly

I was out in this bone-chilling weather....getting groceries, not riding

I've been a member of the Five Rivers MetroParks volunteer bike patrol group for six years. In addition to patrolling the trails we help with other area bike events such as kid's bike rodeos and the annual bike-to-work event. We have a few younger people in the group but the majority are retired.

We have a Saturday morning bike program called "Bike for the Health of It". It's held from April through October and we often have as many as 70 people participate. We try to teach riders trail etiquette, safe riding and simple bike maintenance.

We work with the park rangers and maintenance crews to report suspicious activity and anything on the trail that needs repaired. We carry radios to contact the rangers and go through yearly first aid/CPR training. We've had to use the training a few times, too.

In addition to the bike patrol Five Rivers also has hike, horse and mountain bike volunteers to help with other areas in the parks. We don't have a separate website for the patrols but here's the link to Five Rivers. The outdoors section might have some information on it.
www.metroparks.org

If you want additional info, just ask....