{"id":6746,"date":"2016-11-02T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2016-11-02T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:19:51","slug":"corba-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/corba-board\/","title":{"rendered":"CORBA Welcomes Two New Board Members"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scott Mabbutt<\/p><\/div>\n

With Mark Langton leaving CORBA’s Board of Directors<\/a>, we put out a\u00a0call for Board nominees. We’re happy to announce that we have welcomed two new board members, Scott Mabbutt and Joyce Deprest.<\/p>\n

Scott is a respected filmmaker, storyteller and self-declared cat whisperer. \u00a0When asked how he came into mountain biking, his is an unusual story: \u201cMy first bike was a portable folding bicycle that I bought because I heard that Talking Heads artist David Byrne rode one around New York City.\u201d \u00a0That quickly led to a full-blown love of bicycles, and especially mountain bikes.<\/p>\n

Scott is a member of the Mountain Bike Unit (MBU)<\/a>, a group of mountain bike volunteer patrollers that work closely with the National Park Service, California State Parks and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA) patrolling the Santa Monica Mountains to assist and educate visitors on the trail.\u00a0 Scott can be found somewhere in the Santa Monica mountains every weekend.<\/p>\n

He has attended several CORBA board meetings over the past few years, just to keep abreast of what’s happening in the area. Now he’ll be attending as a CORBA board member, helping keep CORBA on mission. We’re delighted to have him aboard.<\/p>\n

Also joining the CORBA board is Joyce Deprest. Joyce is an MBU member and patroller, with her favorite place to ride or patrol being Point Mugu State Park. Joyce has been instrumental in re-introducing MBU members to do trailwork.<\/p>\n

Joyce Deprest is a native San Fernando \u201cValley Girl.\u201d Her professional life began working in Non-Profit Organizations, including event planning, office management and as the Director of a Synagogue in the San Fernando Valley. During the past 6 years Joyce has rediscovered her love of the mountains, canyons and oceans.<\/p>\n

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Joyce Deprest<\/p><\/div>\n

The re-experience started with an impromptu hike up a narrow trail in Serranio Park, meeting up at Dirt Mulholland and then up what appeared to be an impossibly steep hill to climb. \u00a0The adventure was so exciting the next day she did it again. \u00a0She was hooked. \u00a0Joyce soon discovered that not only did she enjoy the hiking and being in mountains, and embracing the awesome canyons and ocean views, she loved meeting people on the trails. \u00a0She found that without an effort, people talked with her and asked her for directions. \u00a0Joyce started talking to Mountain Bikers and learned that by mountain bike riding she could go further, see more and grow her experience with the Santa Monica Mountains. \u00a0After her first ride on her 10 year old hybrid bike, in Sycamore Canyon\/Point Mugu, she realized that a mountain bike with suspension was necessary. \u00a0The knowledge grew and with that knowledge and a few crashes she realized she needed some MTB riding lessons. \u00a0One day online she discovered Mark Langton. \u00a0For the next 4 \u00a0months she and Mark met in Los Robles for weekly training sessions. \u00a0In addition to hiking and riding, Joyce was also interested in learning about the trails and trails maintenance. \u00a0By the end of that year Joyce had completed a one week Trails Maintenance class with COSCA and had participated in many hours of trail maintenance with CORBA.<\/p>\n

Joyce continued to hike, ride and work on trails. \u00a0She joined Girlz Gone Riding and in January 2015 Joyce joined the Mountain Bike Unit with the goal of supporting the parks, advising and assisting visitors. Shortly after graduating from the MBU Joyce took on the role of Fundraising Coordinator with the Mountain Bike Unit. Her commitment and sense of stewardship of our public lands is inspiring.<\/p>\n

We’re excited to have two new board members who also serve with the MBU. The MBU was a CORBA program, arguably the first organized volunteer patrol in the country. The MBU program grew beyond what CORBA could manage, and is now an independant program of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, administered by the National Park Service. IMBA’s National Mountain Bike Patrol<\/a> is largely based on CORBA’s early work in establishing the MBU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While our Board of Directors now stands at five members, we are still interested in\u00a0expanding the Board, and will continue to accept nominations.<\/p>\n

We invite everyone to meet the CORBA board of directors at one of our Board meetings, or the upcoming Ride and Mingle event on November 27.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Mark Langton leaving CORBA’s Board of Directors, we put out a\u00a0call for Board nominees. We’re happy to announce that we have welcomed two new board members, Scott Mabbutt and Joyce Deprest. Scott is a respected filmmaker, storyteller and self-declared cat whisperer. \u00a0When asked how he came into mountain biking, his is an unusual story: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6790,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}