Category: Past Events

We will continue our work on the Montara Mountain Trail, or work on a nearby trail McNee Ranch. As usual we will start at 8:30 and work until about 3. We expect the hike to our worksite to be about half a mile at most.

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). The Trail Center will provide gloves, 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.

Plan an early start for your drive as this is a popular area.
Directions/parking: Carpooling highly recommended! Drive to pull-out on east side of Highway 1 with sign “Montara State Beach - McNee Ranch” https://maps.app.goo.gl/7UTa1acGMBCVwSdX9. 8.1 mi north of the junction of Hwy 92 and Hwy 1, or about 10 mi south of the junction of Hwy 35 and Hwy 1.
Proceed through the yellow gate, go about 0.2 mi to ranger house and look for directions on parking near the house. We will be shuttled to the trailhead on North Peak Access Road, so plan to stay for the day.

We will continue brushing, drain work, and tread improvements on the Montara Mountain Trail, a State Park priority due to community complaints about trail conditions. As usual we will start at 8:30 and work until about 3. We expect the hike to our worksite to be about half a mile at most.

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). The Trail Center will provide gloves, 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.

Plan an early start for your drive as this is a popular area.
Directions/parking: Carpooling highly recommended! Drive to pull-out on east side of Highway 1 with sign “Montara State Beach - McNee Ranch” https://maps.app.goo.gl/7UTa1acGMBCVwSdX9. 8.1 mi north of the junction of Hwy 92 and Hwy 1, or about 10 mi south of the junction of Hwy 35 and Hwy 1.
Proceed through the yellow gate, go about 0.2 mi to ranger house and look for directions on parking near the house. We will be shuttled to the trailhead on North Peak Access Road, so plan to stay for the day.

Details - Razorback Ridge Trail

It's back to Windy Hill Razorback Ridge trail! Trail Center will work with Midpen on this trail. This work day has an early start: 8 am. Please note that the work includes a hike down the trail and back up, so it is a rigorous day.

Staging/Directions:
Meet at the Corte Madera School at 4575 Alpine Rd. Portola Valley, CA 94028. For the exact meeting location, copy and paste this Google Plus Code in to a new browser: 9Q9Q+5C Portola Valley, California

Participants will be shuttled in MidPen and Trail Center vehicles to the bottom of Razorback Ridge Trail. Participants will hike up to 0.5 mile up the trail to start, and work on the trail as they hike down towards the trailhead and shuttled back to their vehicles at the end of the day.

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.

Project: Edgewood

Sylvan Trail

Activities: For our next work day we will return to Edgewood Park in Redwood City, continuing our work from last May to widen the Sylvan Trail. This time we will start at the very beginning of the trail, and will need to be careful of some endangered flowering plants; they will be pin-flagged.

As usual we will start at 8:30 and work until about 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). The Trail Center will provide gloves, 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.

Directions: 10 Old Stagecoach Rd
From 280 take exit to Edgewood Rd, turn left onto Edgewood from 280 southbound/right from 280 northbound; after 1.2 miles turn right into the park. Because many visitors are expected at the park, please do not park in either public parking lot, but follow Trail Center signs to park up the side road out of the lot.

Details TBD

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.

Details TBD - McNee Ranch State Park

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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