Mount Shasta Trail Association
Inspire • Create • Conserve
Thank you, to our Mount Shasta Trail Association community, and all those that included us in your Giving Tuesday plans. We are eternally grateful for your generous show of support.
The results are in and you were incredibly generous — we met our $30,000 goal! We saw 144 donors participate in Giving Tuesday. We will invest these funds in on-the-ground multi-use trail projects. Thank you again and may you have a wonderful holiday season!
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.
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.
Join us on Thursday September 28th at the Weed Community Center for our annual meeting. Do you see yourself in the photo below? That’s a blast from the past from our 2018 meeting. Doors open at 5:00 PM and we promise to be done by 8:00. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments to be served!
For those of you that shop online at the Amazon website, here’s a way to make a portion of your purchase a donation to the Mount Shasta Trail Association. What a deal!
Instead of logging on the the regular Amazon website, log on to the smile.amazon.com site and register the Mount Shasta Trail Association as your chosen charity and bookmark the smile page. Then as you shop, 0.5% of your purchases will go towards trails in the Mount Shasta area.
Fine print: this is not an endorsement of Amazon by MSTA, but simply an opportunity worth sharing.
Giving Tuesday is TODAY November 29th 6:00 am to 8:00 pm
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Click here for more information on the Gateway Trail. And in case you missed it, here’s this years’ promotional video: “The Trail Crew gets a Call”
What a great time of the year to gather with friends and family, as the holiday season begins with Thanksgiving.
The Trail Association wants to remind you of accomplishments — past, present and future as we conduct our only fundraiser of the year. Looking back, the list is long and includes the Cabin Creek Trail, Lake Siskiyou Trail, and the Springhill Trail. Currently, we are focused on expanding the Gateway Trail network by 46 miles! And looking forward, we think we’ll partner with the Forest Service on trail opportunities in the South Sacramento River watershed.
To help us continue this work, please consider making a donation this Giving Tuesday, November 29th; although early donations have already opened up. Here’s the link: click
Otherwise, below are some photos to remind us of the work we do.
Just in case you were wondering what is happening, or not happening, with the Trail Association’s efforts to provide safe and legal access to these internationally renown falls, SFGate just published an article on the trials and tribulations of that effort. Check it out here:
Drum roll please . . . Congratulations to the Trail Challenge 2022 Treasure Hunt Grand Prize winner….Donna Larson!!
Trail Challenge Treasures Revealed
Treasure #1 The Madrone Tree on the Foundation Trail
Treasure #2 The car bodies on the Box Canyon Trail
Treasure #3 The small wooden bridge on the Lake Siskiyou Trail
Treasure #4 The old mining Flume on Flume Creek Trail
Treasure #5 The large anthracite rock on the Gateway Trail
Treasure #6 The heather at Panther Meadow Trail
Treasure #7 Upper Gumboot Lake Gumboot Trail
Treasure #8 The rock causeway on the Sisson Callahan Trail
Thanks to all that played and thanks for supporting the MSTA
Here’s an opportunity to give back to the land we love. On Saturday September 24th, the Forest Service is hosting a work event on the McCloud River loop. The 24th is National Public Lands Day, and the work will focus on sign installation and trail brushing. For more information, see the poster below.
