Reminder: We have a work day this coming Saturday, October 8, where you get to help 2 parks for the price of 1: Portola Redwoods State Park and Pescadero Creek County Park. Details here: http://www.trailcenter.org/…/saturday-october-8-2016-porto…/

Project: Portola Redwoods State Park (Upper Coyote Ridge Trail) Upper Coyote Ridge Trail Activities: We will continue work we began in August on the Upper Coyote Ridge Trail. We will start at Tarwa…
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Last weekend on September 10, the Trail Center worked in San Mateo County's Memorial Park with park staff to reopen a long closed section of the Mt. Ellen Nature trail and improve numerous portions of its remainder, including much tread widening, improving drainage, and cutting back overgrown vegetation. Thanks to all our volunteers, old and new! We look forward to returning to Memorial in 2017 to work on the Mt. Ellen Summit and Pomponio Trails. https://goo.gl/photos/7pWRNWv6RPvgpWV19

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Join us for work on the Saratoga Gap Trail. Don't delay, this will be a sellout, standing room only event.

Pitch In, Get Dirty, Build Trail and Make Friends! #RidgeTrailDay On November 5, hundreds of volunteers will join the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, REI, and our park and non-profit partners for the 9th annual Ridge Trail Day to celebrate and give back to the trail we love!  Volunteers will repair tr...
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We worked with Connor this summer and were part of this project in July.

The Sierra Buttes realignment project is anything but ordinary in comparison to your typical trail maintenance and construction project.

By Connor Swift, PCTA Trail Crew Technical Advisor It’s often difficult to describe our experiences on the Pacific Crest Trail, whether we’ve been hiking or volunteering to do trail maintenance. Some experiences can be summed up with just a word or two, such as exhausting, beautiful or worst day eve...
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From July 28th to July 31st, 2016, Trail Center members along with two crews from the American Conservation Experience (ACE) and two technical advisors from the PCTA were engaged in building steps and a retaining wall on a reroute of the PCT near Sierra Buttes. One rock at a time ...

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Cancellations have opened up some additional slots for our end-of-July Sierra Buttes weekend. We are looking for a few more volunteers for this trip where we will be constructing a new section of the world-class Pacific Crest Trail. Join us for this amazing event. E-mail volunteer@trailcenter.org

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How does it feel to cut an 18-inch log blocking the trail on National Trails Day? It feels great!

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Celebrate National Trails Day on Sat June 4 with a Trail Build under the Redwoods at Portola Redwoods State Park

http://nationaltrailsday.americanhiking.org/…/trail-repair…/

Loading Map.... Portola Redwoods State Park 9000 Portola State Park RdLa HondaCalifornia94020 37.2879264 -122.21289189999999 Location: Portola Redwoods State Park Address: 9000 Portola State Park Rd City, State, Zip: La Honda, California 94020 Detailed Directions to Event Location: From Highway 35 (...
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Next up: Portola Redwoods State Park on National Trails Day!

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Loading Map.... Portola Redwoods State Park 9000 Portola State Park RdLa HondaCalifornia94020 37.2879264 -122.21289189999999 Location: Portola Redwoods State Park Address: 9000 Portola State Park Rd City, State, Zip: La Honda, California 94020 Detailed Directions to Event Location: From Highway 35 (...
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On May 14, Trail Center volunteers completed rehab of first 3/4 mi. of the Dean Trail in #HuddartCountyPark #smcparks. See a sample of how one section's crew's did it:

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Excellent Earth Day volunteer trail build under the redwoods at #sammcdonaldcountypark #smcparks https://goo.gl/photos/5K7ZANSTfiqbiTEbA

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Outstanding Volunteer Trail Build at Huddart County Park @friendsofhuddar Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks San Mateo County Parks Foundation #smcparks

Join the Trail Center and San Mateo County Parks for a volunteer trail build at Huddart County Park this Sat. Details at http://www.trailcenter.org/

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The Trail Center supports the Bay Area Ridge Trail on which this mini-documentary is based.

One trail has many stories. We're paying tribute to trails by telling the stories of people connected to three: Appalachian, Arizona, and Bay Area Ridge. Like Errol “The Rocket” Jones, a 65-year-old ultrarunnner. Watch his story of pain, perseverance and self-discovery on the Bay Area Ridge Trail.
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The Trail Center was well represented at the San Mateo County Parks volunteer recognition party with Dave Taylor, Henry S. Magnuski, Woody Collins, Alex Jose and others in attendance. The TC along with about 15 other groups are all working together to expand the resources of SMCP and make the parks a better place to be.

Come Join us this Saturday as work at Huddart Park in San Mateo! http://www.trailcenter.org/…/2…/huddart2015/huddart2015.html

The Trail Center is a non-profit volunteer organization promoting quality non-motorized trail opportunities for all people in the San Francisco South Bay and SF Peninsula.
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Congratulations to Justin Knowles on his unanimous re-election to the Trail Center Board at our Annual Meeting on 11/21.

Trail Center added 8 new photos from November 2015 to the album: 1511 Tool Party — in Palo Alto, California.
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Clean tools, sharp edges, warm pizza and cold beer. What else could you want on a beautiful Saturday afternoon?

Join the Trail Center for its annual meeting & tool party on Sat Nov 21 - sharp tools, good food, & good company included http://www.trailcenter.org/…/toolparty20…/toolparty2015.html

The Trail Center is a non-profit volunteer organization promoting quality non-motorized trail opportunities for all people in the San Francisco South Bay and SF Peninsula.
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Thanks to all the volunteers at last weekend's Bay Area Ridge Trail Day event on the San Mateo County Parks Skyline Trail. Here's a link to some photos (with a few samples on this post):
https://picasaweb.google.com/102…/1511SkylineBARTServiceDay…

One interesting thing you can do is walk the trail in its "before" state using Google Streetview because they've captured it using the "Trekker" backpack camera:

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This link puts you down at the Molder junction, facing roughly southbound:
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Here are links showing two views the stump the Madrone crew removed:

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and here's the big mess of logs Aaron's crew cleaned up:

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'Bern Smith of the @[48507774606:274:Bay Area Ridge Trail] welcomes volunteers at the staging area on Skyline Boulevard.'
'A good view of some of the "before" conditions on a section of trail.'
'...and after some TLC from the TC'
'The "Bay Laurel" crew works another section'