During the week of March 25, 2019, 12 students from the University of Missouri — or Mizzou, as they like to be called — along with their chaparones, journeyed to Santa Fe to complete a service work project during their spring break. Over five days, these hardy and fun-loving students tackled some of the most pressing maintenance projects at the Galisteo Basin Preserve, including building rock check dams, shoring up arroyo headcuts that were undercutting trails, and fixing erosion issues on several GBP hike/bike and multi-use trails, such as the Eliza’s Ridge Trail, Shepard’s Trail, Sophie’s Spur, South Wagon Trail and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty. They were expertly led by Peter Prince — who coordinated their service project at GBP — as well as other highly experienced crew leaders from the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society: Dean Fry, Henry Lanman, Pat Brown and Tim Fowler. Incredibly over the five-day period, they completed 792 volunteer hours at the Preserve! When their volunteer hours are added to the hours put in by their crew leaders from SFFTS, over 1000 hours of volunteer maintenance work was completed at the GBP. This is the second highest level of volunteer work ever completed on a Santa Fe area trail — just behind the Hustle and Flow trail at La Tierra Trails that was built over a 3 week period. The SFFTS has designated all the students honorary club members to celebrate their extraordinary efforts at GBP!
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Oct2Mon12:00 pm Trails Alliance of Santa Fe mont...Trails Alliance of Santa Fe mont...Oct 2 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pmVolunteers discuss up coming trail work and issues with city, county and USFS folks. Open to everybody.Oct3Tue5:30 pm Vamonos Take a Walk on the South... @ Southside LibraryVamonos Take a Walk on the South... @ Southside LibraryOct 3 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pmTake a Walk on the South Side Southside Library to Arroyo Chamiso Trail Meet at 6599 Jaguar DrOct7Sat10:00 am Vamonos Hike – Pecos Nat’l Monument @ Pecos National Historical ParkVamonos Hike – Pecos Nat’l Monument @ Pecos National Historical ParkOct 7 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pmVámonos Hike – Pecos Nat’l Monument South Pasture Loop trail (3.8 miles) Registration required to info@sfct.org for free bus transportation to trailhead To Report Trail Damage
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- Santa Fe Conservation Trust
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- Santa Fe Fat Tire Society
- Santa Fe County Hikes
Big thanks to A-1 Self Storage (at the corner of Pacheco and West San Mateo) for providing a place to store our tools.