Mount Shasta Trail Association
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I have a dozen volunteers for tomorrow morning, so we might have it covered. But if you just want to see what we’re doing, and maybe heckle the workers, we’ll be starting the post and sign installation between 9 and 9:30 am about ¼ mile below the McBride Trailhead on Everitt Mem Hwy (you’ll easily see the chaos). And, we can always use extra help.
Even though the weather looks a little iffy, our volunteer contractor apparently has the equipment we need and is ready to work.
We’re going to try driving in the posts, not digging them, so we don’t need quite so many people. What we do need is the traffic control crew of about 6 or7 (at least for the morning work on Everitt Mem Hwy), a small crew to handle the signs themselves, and a small crew to handle the posts. If we dig any holes with an augur, then perhaps we’ll need someone with a pickup to go get some gravel.
Let me know if you can help and I’ll divide up the work. Final announcement will go out tomorrow evening with times and locations. Thank you.
It has been an extraordinary year for the Trail Association as we expand the Gateway Trail system. We still need your help to get all 46 miles of new trail and 5 trailheads across the finish line!
Please consider donating to MSTA on Giving Tuesday this November 28th. As an all-volunteer organization, 98% of donations are invested in on-the-ground projects.
The Community Foundation of the North State will be awarding different non-profits monetary prizes throughout the day on Tuesday, so donations made between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM increase MSTA’s chances of getting an additional $1,000 or more!
Here’s the link for donations: click
Your support is what makes our work possible!
Black Bear Diner is teaming up with North State Giving Tuesday to award prizes to nonprofits. We won $5000 two years ago this way (although I’m not sure of the amount this time).
Go to North State Giving Tuesday and scroll down to “Shout Outs & A’Paws Contest,” and select “This Voting Link.” Then scroll down to Mount Shasta Trail Association (Sisk County nonprofits are listed second and MSTA is about ¾ of the way to the bottom of the list). Select MSTA as your favorite nonprofit. That’s all you have to do.
Thanks.
Giving Tuesday – the Trail Association’s only fund raising effort – is Tuesday November 28th. However, to beat the rush you can make your donation any time from now up through the 28th.
For more information on all the great work MSTA is doing and to make a donation, click here.
Farewell to MSTA board member Lynda Hardy
Lynda is taking a new trail and retiring from the MSTA board. She has been an active member of our board for several years. As our creative director, Lynda was the mastermind of our “community based” Trail Challenge. Her vision was to inspire trail users to challenge themselves and others to participate in healthy outdoor activities by hiking and biking the trails that surrounds us.
Giving Tuesday was a passion for “Team Captain” Lynda. She developed a variety of promotional materials to get the word out to donate to MSTA. Over the last 5 years many supporters have viewed members of the board participating in humorous Giving Tuesday videos. Those videos were Lynda’s inspiration.
At the urging of Lynda, MSTA now has a beautiful logo that represents both hikers and bikers. This eye-catching logo has had countless compliments from many of our supporters.
Although, the board won’t be seeing Lynda at our meetings, we will see her having fun on the trails biking, hiking and skiing. We send her good wishes on her new adventures.
The Mount Shasta Trail Association is pleased to announce that Rick Cory has joined its Board of Directors.
Rick grew up in Burlingame in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from San Jose State in 1989 with a degree in Fire Protection Engineering. He was backpacking across Europe when the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred and brought him home.
He worked for 30 years for the Fremont Fire Department, retiring in 2021 as a Division Chief. He worked extensively on wildland mutual aid as a Strike Team Leader and Safety Officer and responded several times to the Mount Shasta area. Rick is very proud of his work with FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 4 and especially their 3-week response to Hurricane Katrina with nearly 1000 rescues.
His first introduction to this incredible area was in 1998 when (girlfriend at the time) Luce and Rick took one of their first trips together visiting Mossbrae Falls. In 2010 they purchased a home across the street from his cousin in Dunsmuir. They taught all of their 4 children to ski at the Mt Shasta Ski Park and how to fish in the Sacramento River. One of his very favorite things to do is a long bike ride ending at the Dunsmuir brewpub.
Rick has watched with anticipation since 2015 as the new Gateway II trail network developed and has loved every minute working with the volunteer crews building trail. Rick is also proud to have completed every Mount Shasta Trail Challenge since its inception in 2018 and is excited to now help continue this great program.
Luce and Rick look forward to many years mountain biking, snow shoeing, skiing, and hiking with their dogs in this beautiful area.
Thirteen volunteers got together to put posts in concrete for the trailhead signs at McBride and Ten Gallon yesterday. We didn’t leave the big plastic signs in place because I didn’t have the exact right hardware. Thanks to Gail Domanski, Neil Posson, Steve Diaz, Bryson Adams, Mark Derby, Linda Cabitto, Dave Pfurr, Jim Wrona, Steve Eddy, Stace Jankowski, and our USFS colleagues, Colleen Greene and Taylor Forte.
We’ll reschedule the big sign install day when we have the post driver, so stay tuned.
I was somewhat unclear with my last post. We will be doing limited work tomorrow; installing 2 wooden posts at McBride with cement, and possibly 2 wooden posts at Ten Gallon if time allows. No heavy equipment, so no need for a traffic control crew. We’ll just need a handful of volunteers. If you show, please bring a few gallons of water for cement cleanup. Meet about 8:45-9:00 at the McBride Trailhead. You’ll see my truck parked there. Thanks.
This afternoon, I went up to the McBride Springs Trailhead and was able to dig two holes in a little over an hour. They will be adequate to install the sign you see below. Let’s at least get one big sign in on Monday.
Meet me between 8:30 and 9:00 at the McBride Trailhead (just below McBride Springs Campground) on Monday, Nov. 13. I’ll have concrete, posts, and the signs. If all goes quickly (which I expect), we’ll try to dig a couple holes up the road at Ten Gallon. I need to be done before noon, so this won’t be a long day. Thanks.
