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Events that have already occurred, kept for reference purposes.

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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

 

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Project: Windy Hill Open Space Preserve

National Trail Day

Activities:Razorback Ridge Trail

Activities: The Trail Center in conjunction with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) will be providing much needed repairs to the Razorback Ridge Trail in the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve. Windy Hill is one of the most scenic spaces on the San Francisco Peninsula with incredible views of the entire Bay Area. No trail maintenance experience is required and all tools and instruction will

The work day will be coordinated by Midpen for registration, waivers and a shuttle, and will be limited to 30 volunteers total. Registration is open!

Use this link to register:  https://volunteer.openspace.org/need/detail/?need_id=751690

be provided.

Directions: tbd

 

 

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Project: San Mateo Memorial Park

Homestead Trail

Activities: Complete our long-term project to allow the Homestead Trail in San Mateo County’s Memorial Park to reopen by installing the remaining portions of a heavy-duty retaining wall. This will be a smaller-scale workday due to the tight quarters, but we can accommodate a mix of skill levels. We’d love to have some folks who’ve worked there before as well as enthusiastic newcomers.

Directions: tbd

 

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For our October 22 work day we will follow through with the project we had to cancel in September: classic Trail Center trail maintenance: brushing, clearing duff, repairing tread, on the Skyline Trail south of Huddart Park. Much of the day will be under shady canopy, and most of the trail has a gentle grade. Volunteers will hike with tools south on the trail from Kings Mountain Road, after being shuttled from the Kings Mountain Archers lot. The farthest hiking will be 2.2 miles. Some areas of the trail have poison oak to remove, so volunteers will self-identify their ability to work in those areas.
As usual we will meet at 8:30 and work until 2:30 or 3.

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.

Trail Center strongly recommends that all volunteers be fully vaccinated.

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Project: Big Basin

Burn Debris Cleanup

Activities: Volunteers will break into 3-4 crews and work the Sunset Trail off of Dool Trail.
Conditions: Wildfire burn area with woody debris needing to be cleared from trail corridor and moved to burn piles over the length of this 0.5 mile trail.

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
Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/4fQUR1W7i1kRcdjg7

We will queue up in the Jay Trail Camp parking lot until everyone’s arrived, then state parks staff lead the caravan to Gazos Day Use Area, which is where we staged last time. Volunteers must arrive no later than 9:00 a.m. because we will caravan as a group through the locked N. Escape Rd gate, anyone who hasn’t arrived by this time will not be able to get to the final parking area.

 

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Project: Windy Hill Open Space Preserve

National Trail Day

Activities:Razorback Ridge Trail

Activities: The Trail Center in conjunction with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) will be providing much needed repairs to the Razorback Ridge Trail in the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve. Windy Hill is one of the most scenic spaces on the San Francisco Peninsula with incredible views of the entire Bay Area. No trail maintenance experience is required and all tools and instruction will be provided.

Directions: tbd

 

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Project (click for directions):Tool Party and Trail Work

Tool Maintenance and Trail Work

Activities:Combined trail work and tool party

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.

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