Tim at Acme Bikes in rapid has this posted on his site.

USFS Trail Access Meeting:
We have come to a decision on the date for a meeting with Rick Hudson of the USFS: Thursday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. at the Mystic USFS office (on Soo San by West Middle School). Rick is spear-heading the travel-usage monster for the Black Hills and will be presenting a PowerPoint on what we (mountain bikers) can do to help our cause. He will also be fielding any questions that we may have. This is a very critical meeting to attend (was that too subtle?) for any mountain biker interested in keeping single-track trail opportunities alive in the Black Hills. Please do everything that you can to attend...and drag a few family members with you too. We will want to show that we are a large user group whose needs the forest service must address. Please mark your calendars with this important date. I hope everyone can attend! Cheers, Phil

Make it to the meeting if you are able to. I know I'll try to be there.

There is a possibility of the addition of a few more categories to the trail database for the public to submit trails.

Currently the database allows submission in the categories of hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, and horseback riding.

These categories were chosen because the majority of NFS maintained trails are limited to one or a few of these uses.

Recognizing the fact that not all forest use must be carried out on NFS sanctioned trails, BHTrails.com is looking to expand our list of categories to include more outdoor activities. Some of the planned additions are: Backcountry Powder Runs (downhill skiing & snowboarding), 4x4 & Rock crawler trails, ATV trails, Snowmobile trails, and publicly accessable firetowers and lookouts. The addition of these categories is an easy process, it's getting the categories populated that will be hard work.

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BHTrails.com will now exclusively be using this blog for news related posts.

This blog has an RSS feed (rich site subscription) that will allow users of BHTrails.com to get automatic updates either by email or in the news aggregator of their choice. I will create a post later that includes instructions on how you can subscribe to the feed and link to it on the side bar of this blog.

Until then, happy trails.

I haven't had a chance to read much of the article yet, but the Rapid City Journal has a front page article advocating single tracks in the hills.

Here's the link

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The way that Google works is by tracking links, so for example the link New York Yankees, while sending the user to yankees.com makes searches for "New York Yankees" most likely to send users to yankees.com.

In order to up BHTrails on the search engines (google) we need to make common search terms relevant to what BHTrails.com is about related to the URL http://www.BHTrails.com. So, for example, Using terms like Black Hills Hiking, South Dakota Hiking, Black Hills Hiking Trails, Black Hills Mountain Biking, etc... while directing the links to BHTrails.com will help raise BHTrails on the results list, hence sending more people to the site, hence growing the database, hence uncovering more trails for the rest of us.

I realize that most of the visitors of BHTrails.com will not be ultra web savvy, not have their own website and the like to post these above mentioned links. However if you do have a favorite forum or someplace that allows HTML links on them I encourage you to help grow BHTrails.com by placing these links.

Below I have placed a few links and the correlating HTML code used to create the link.

• Black Hills Hiking
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">Black Hills Hiking</a>
• South Dakota Hiking
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">South Dakota Hiking</a>
• Black Hills Hiking trails
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">Black Hills Hiking Trails</a>
• South Dakota Hiking trails
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">South Dakota Hiking Trails</a>
• Black Hills Horseback Riding
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">Black Hills Horseback Riding</a>
• South Dakota Horseback Riding
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">South Dakota Horseback Riding</a>
• Black Hills skiing
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">Black Hills Skiing</a>
• South Dakota skiing
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">South Dakota Skiing</a>
• Black Hills Cross-Country
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">Black Hills Cross-Country</a>
• South Dakota Cross-Country
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">South Dakota Cross-Country</a>
• Black Hills X-Country
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">Black Hills X-Country</a>
• South Dakota X-Country
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">South Dakota X-Country</a>
• Black Hills Backpacking
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">Black Hills Backpacking</a>
• South Dakota Backpacking
• <a href="http://www.bhtrails.com">South Dakota Backpacking</a>

If you want to post any of these links just copy the code from above and paste it wherever you are posting the link. This is undoubtedly the most efficient way to spread the word about BHTrails.com, other than word of mouth of course.

If you have any questions at all, just post them in the comments section below.

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This blog will be used to keep BHTrails community members informed of current events affecting their use of the Hills, and any other news that's fit to post.