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Sorry for the late notice. We’ll be primping up the Muir’s Ascension Link (between McBride and Moon Doggie) on Monday, Sept. 18 at 9 am. Meet across from McBride Springs Campground along Everitt Memorial Hwy, about 3 miles above the GW Trailhead. The hike to the trail work is about 50 yards; we’ll have Sherpas to help if you can’t make it on your own. The goal is to rough up any deep tire tracks, smooth the tread, and open up any clogged drainages, much as we did recently on Strawberry Valley Trail. So, this is light to moderate rake/McLeod work. Come for an hour and hang with the crew.

Sixteen of us had a great morning together yesterday heading into the Gateway Trails to buff up the lower portion of the new Strawberry Valley Trail. Half of us trimmed out the encroaching brush that had nearly closed off the trail while the rest hiked up to clean up the tread and the drainages that had suffered a bit from the recent rains. The photos show that it was as much a social event as it was a successful work day. Many thanks to Renee Casterline, Davis Bowden, Kerry O’Brien, Neil Jacobs, Dave Pfurr, John Kelly, Mark Derby, Eric Blomberg, Steve Diaz, Neil Posson, Tony Mills, Mike Bradley, Chris Marrone, and Pat Titus, and Bryson Schreder.

Stay tuned; there will be many more trail days this fall as MSTA, BikeShasta, SORA, and the USFS get together to prep all the new trails for winter (and more importantly, spring!).

Remember that we’re meeting tomorrow morning at 9 at the Gateway Trailhead to do some trail maintenance/cleanup.

We recommend boots or sturdy shoes, long pants, long sleeve shirt, eye protection, gloves (although I have those if you need them), and water. I have the hardhats, which we have to wear on USFS property.

Hope to see you!

Please join MSTA on a trail work day this Thursday, Sept 7 at 9 am at the Gateway Trailhead on Everitt Memorial Hwy. We’ll enter the Gateway System through the green gate (hopefully in carpools) and drive to the North Gateway Crossing (about 6-8 minutes) where we’ll organize to trim back the brush and improve the tread on the lower part of the new Strawberry Valley Trail. This is light to moderate work with either a very short hike (for the brushers) and a slightly longer hike for those doing tread work. Stay only as long as you like. Bring water and a snack. We have all the tools.

This is a great chance to meet new trail crew members as well as Bryson Schreder, trail steward coordinator for the Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Alliance, who will be helping organize some trail work days in the future.

Thankfully, eight volunteers showed up to install the kiosk at Ten Gallon Trailhead, and we needed everybody. The posts are very heavy, the levelling is difficult once everything is connected, and there were 12 bags of cement to mix and pour. Thanks to Tony Mills, Rick Cory, Payton Birch, and Jim Wrona. A special thanks to Steve Diaz, David Court, and Mike Hlynsky who seemed to have additional construction knowledge and helped us avoid technical mistakes. Mike is an electrician who is newish to town and is the owner of Apollo Electric Co. (530-643-0217)—my “plug”, not his (and my pun).

Stay tuned; there are two more kiosks to install before Jan. 1.