Nov 4, 2016 | Trails
The Trails Program Manager took over 280 kids and 40 adults out to experience Dale Ball Trails over a three-week period in October. The outings included a dozen field trips for Fourth- and Fifth-Grade classes from El Camino Real Academy and Nina Otero Community...
Oct 24, 2016 | Trails
About forty cyclists joined the Trails Program Manager for the Tour de Mural, a bicycle tour of wall art in Santa Fe, on Sat., Oct. 8, 2016. Starting with the “Photo Fence” in the Railyard Park and finishing at the State Archives Building on Guadalupe...
Oct 24, 2016 | Trails
A dozen members of Capital High School’s Outdoors Club, along with two teachers, came out to the Wilderness Gate Trailhead on Oct. 14 to help out with trail maintenance in the South Section of Dale Ball Trails. The students focused on reducing erosion on a few...
Oct 13, 2016 | Trails
Numerous work days in September and October were dedicated to installing the long-awaited, new junction signs on Dale Ball Trails, as well as updating and adding to the supplemental arrow signs that help ensure users can find their way through the trails. ...
Sep 7, 2016 | Trails
The City Trail Volunteer Coordinator met with six volunteers at Cerro Gorod Trailhead Parking lot on the morning of Aug. 31 to head south from Upper Canyon Rd. between Junctions 29 and 30. This stretch of trail toward Picacho Peak is a City trail easement on land...
Sep 7, 2016 | Trails
Volunteers returned to La Tierra Trails for four work days in August 2016 to complete the re-route between Junctions 3 and 5 and perform maintenance work elsewhere in the western portion of the trails.
Aug 1, 2016 | Trails
Ten City Summer Campers and two Camp counselors joined the Trails Program Manager for a demonstration of trail construction near Cerro Gordo Trailhead and a hike up Picacho Peak on July 29. ...
Jul 12, 2016 | Trails
On July 12, eleven volunteers converged on the northwest corner of La Tierra Trails to start work on a long-discussed reroute of a braided section of trail north of Junction 5. The group included two brand new recruits as well as a third new recruit who stopped...
Jul 12, 2016 | Trails
A group of thirteen city summer campers, two counselors, one parent, and the SFCT Trails Program Manager scaled Atalaya Mountain on July 11, the first elementary-school age field trip to “bag” the peak. There were few complaints as we made our way up,...
Jun 29, 2016 | Trails
Work on the South Section of Dale Ball Trails took place as a transition from working on the Dale Ball Connector Trail on the other side of Cerro Gordo Trailhead. Over the course of several work days we added some directional signage, dispersed a fallen tree, blocked...