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Details TBD - Razorback Ridge Trail

Staging/Directions:
TBD

Additional Information:
Volunteers need to bring: sunscreen, water, snacks and lunch, sturdy shoes (hiking boots recommended), precautions against poison oak exposure (long sleeved shirts and long pants), your own gloves. (Trail Center can also provide gloves). The Trail Center will provide tools and crew leaders to direct your work, and refreshments at the end of the day.

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We will perform primarily tread and drainage work on the Redwood Nature Trail in San Mateo County’s Huddart Park in Woodside. We will formalize a use trail that connects to the loop from the parking lot. We may also do some minor brushing, improve a culvert crossing, and re-install interpretive signs. As usual we will meet at 8:30 and work until 2:30 or 3.

Staging/Directions:
We will meet in the Oak Picnic area’s parking lot, in the southeast corner of Huddart Park. Restrooms are available there.

The main entrance to Huddart is at:
1100 Kings Mountain Rd.
Woodside, CA 94062

When you approach the entrance kiosk, let the attendant know you are there for the trail project to avoid paying the entrance fee. Shortly after passing the kiosk, watch for directional signs to the Oak Picnic Area, which will be right turn. Continue 0.7mi on the park road past the Sequoia and Redwood areas and then turn right into the large Oak Picnic Area parking lot. Use this link as the destination for turn-by-turn directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7MK6MV3GvnqyzHg2A

Additional Information:
Volunteers need to bring: sunscreen, water, snacks and lunch, sturdy shoes (hiking boots recommended), precautions against poison oak exposure (long sleeved shirts and long pants), your own gloves. (Trail Center can also provide gloves). The Trail Center will provide tools and crew leaders to direct your work, and refreshments at the end of the day.

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Big Basin - Sequoia Trail

Burn Debris Cleanup

Activities: Work on the Sequoia Trail near park headquarters to remove dead and live vegetation along trail corridor and construct burn piles at specified locations.

Directions: Volunteer cars will meet in the Jay Trail Camp parking lot, which is off Big Basin Way, 0.3mi south of N. Escape Rd, and just north of the intersection with Hinh Hammond Rd.

GPS Coordinates: 37.168708, -122.221746

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Skyline Trail

Molder Junction to Alambique Trail

Directions: Directions to El Corte de Madera Open Space Preserve parking lot, 16040 Skyline Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94062:
The parking lot is on the west side of Highway 35 (Skyline Boulevard), 9.7 miles south of Hwy 92, about one mile south of the Caltrans Skeggs Point parking area and 2.7 miles north of the intersection of Highway 35 and Highway 84.

Volunteer

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Project (click for directions):Annual Tool Party

Hidden Villa

Activities:Tool & Trailer Maintenance

Bring: work gloves, rags, electric drills with brush attachments (if you have them), good spirits, stories and friends.

Tool party location: Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills.

Directions to Hidden Villa 26870 Moody Rd, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022:
From San Francisco and the Peninsula: Take I-280 South to exit 16 towards Moody Rd. Bear left to stay on El Monte Rd for .5 mile until the intersection with Elena Rd. Turn left onto Moody Rd and continue 1.7 mile until the entrance of Hidden Villa on the left. Turn left to take the driveway, let the person at the gatehouse know you are with the Trail Center, continue about .2 mile and turn into the main parking lot on your right. From the parking lot, walk up the road to the staging area where the trailer is parked.

From San Jose and the Valley: Take I-280 North to exit 16 for El Monte Rd. Keep left at the fork for El Monte Rd west, follow signs for Moody Rd/Foothill College and merge onto El Monte Rd. Continue about .7 mile until the intersection with Elena Rd. Turn left onto Moody Rd and continue 1.7 mile until the entrance of Hidden Villa on the left. Turn left to take the driveway, let the person at the gatehouse know you are with the Trail Center, continue about .2 mile and turn into the main parking lot on your right. From the parking lot, walk up the road to the staging area where the trailer is parked.

Volunteer

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We will be hosted by the Tahoe Rim Trail Association over the weekend of July 21-23, and help them with a reroute of the Horse Meadows Trail. The work will be at about 8500 feet, and camping at the Horse Meadows Trailhead, in an unimproved campsite with a porta-potty.

We will work full days Friday and Saturday, and half day Sunday, returning home Sunday afternoon. All meals except Thursday dinner will be provided. Volunteers will rotate kitchen duty.

Volunteers need to bring: personal camping gear, hat, gloves, water bottles/bladders (plan 3 liters/day), sunscreen, sturdy boots, long sleeved shirts, long pants, and rain gear. All volunteers are advised to be fully vaccinated.

Volunteers should arrive before nightfall Thursday July 20. We encourage and will help arrange carpooling.

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Project: Coal Mine Ridge Nature Preserve

Toyon Trail

Activities: Selectively restore tread width, brush encroaching vegetation, and perform general maintenance on a portion of the Toyon Trail, which is part of the Coal Mine Ridge Nature Preserve and the Town of Portola Valley trails system. Install two small retaining wall sections to replace deteriorated ones.

Directions: Map Link