SFCT Trail Events in 2017

City Summer Camp hikes started on the afternoon of June 9 with a group of nine campers and two counselors from the Genoveva Chavez Community Center.  We were joined at Cerro Gordo Trailhead by Bob Findling of The Nature Conservancy, who provided an orientation to the...

After a few scoping and preparation visits with members of the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society, the Trails Program Manager worked with ten volunteers to put in a new footbridge at the east end of Camino de las Animas. SFFTS President Brent Bonwell and Henry Lanman...

In May 2016, the Trails Program Manager took 250 hikers on twelve field trips to the Dale Ball Trails, thanks to generous support from the Lineberry Foundation to cover transportation costs and some staff time.  The total included 223 children and 27 teachers or...

SFCT partnered with Santa Fe Community College and BTI to celebrate "Bike to School Day" at SFCC's Witter Fitness Center on May 4, 2016.  Three convoys made their way to SFCC by bicycle, including one from the Rail Trail at Rabbit Rd., one from the Arroyo Chamiso...

Roughly 22 people on bikes joined this year's "CommUnity Cruise," a group ride from Second Street Brewery to the plaza, where the City was holding its "CommUnity Day" event. The ride was billed as a "kick-off event" for Bike-to-Work Week and featured many of the...

The Magical History Cruise was a bike ride through time and space organized by SFCT through the Outside / Bike and Brew event.  Twenty riders participated in the ride on the morning of May 21, including visitors from Albuquerque and Durango, but primarily consisting...

After the City of Santa Fe completed the removal of the old Filter Plant building, the Trails Program Manager and volunteers began work on this long-awaited Dale Ball connector on the morning of April 26, with help from project partner Bob Findling of The Nature...

City and County volunteer coordinators teamed up with students and faculty from The Masters Program and a few more trail volunteers to hammer out most of the Spur Trail connector on SFCC campus on April 15. After several scoping visits in March and April, the route...

Volunteers met with the Trails Program Manager at Cerro Gordo Trailhead to work on sections of Dale Ball Trails above the Arroyo Polai on Mar. 24 and 31.  A lot of effort went into "de-berming" the stretch of gullied, switch-backing trail up to the Dorothy Stewart...

Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day is a national event promoted by the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) that was organized locally by Michael Cahill of the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society (SFFTS). Over a dozen kids showed up at La Tierra Trails' La Cuchara...