SFCT Trail Events in 2017

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...

Thanks to moderate temperatures, we were able to continue volunteer trail work into December.  On Dec. 8, we focused on the wide trail between Frijoles and Calabasas Trailheads that is considered a "Regional Multi-Use Trail" under the La Tierra Trails Master Plan. We...

Thanks to new grant support from the Line-Berry Foundation, SFCT was able to offer field trips to a second south-side school, Nina Otero Community School.  Fourth-graders received backpacks, hiking accessories, and "Passports to Santa Fe's Foothill Trails" provided...

                  Field Trips to La Tierra Trails continued in October and November with Fifth-Graders from El Camino Real Academy. On Oct. 27 we hosted Miss Young's class, on Nov. 10, Miss Castillo's class, and on Nov. 24,...

On Oct. 23, a small group of volunteers reached higher up the Atalaya Trail than we have got in the past, above where the "Easier" and Steeper" sections re-unite.  After a little de-berming on the "Steeper" route, the group found plenty of locations above the junction...