SFCT Trail Events in 2017

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...

City trail volunteers focused on maintenance needs on the far west side of La Tierra Trails on four work days in November.                             A group of six volunteers joined Tim Rogers to...

A dozen volunteers worked on the Atalaya Trail before heading up to "Shirley's Knob" to celebrate National Trails Day as well as the development of a "Grand Unified Trails System" for Santa Fe.  While working their way up, the crew ran into Alan Karp, long-time...