Goal Reached!! – Help Build the Access Trail into the Glorieta Camps

November 2017

We need your help to raise $2,500 for the “Glorieta Access Trail”!

BACKGROUND: Glorieta Camps world-class trail system has played host to many important Mt. Bike events over the last few years, including the Big Mountain Enduro, and the USA Cycling State Championships.  Currently, however, access to all the Camps trails is ONLY by permission only, usually  during organized events and races.  The Santa Fe Fat Tire Society (SFFTS) worked with Glorieta Camps to design an access trail that avoids the main campus area and connects with all of those cool trails surrounding the perimeter.

The “Glorieta Access Trail” will be hand built by volunteers under the direction of SFFTS Crew Leaders, but this project NEEDS FUNDING. Your contribution will cover the costs of every aspect of this trail build, including paying for supplies and equipment, providing food and drinks to the volunteers, trail signage, access gates, fencing removal, as well as printing and distribution of trail material.

This project is part of the International Mountain Biking Association’s (IMBA) “Dig-In” Campaign! Some of your donation will also support IMBA’s continued efforts at protecting our trails and increasing our national mountain bike network.  “Dig-In” is  68 different projects in 31 US states and the Glorieta access trail is the only project in the New Mexico state.

This is IMPORTANT Because: The “Glorieta Access Trail” will be open to the public for hiking and biking, providing on-demand access to Glorieta Camps’ extensive trail network…opening the Camps trails to all of us!

Please go to https://win.imba.com/digin and make a contribution to the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society Project.
http://www.santafefattiresociety.org/

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Trail Etiquette

Peter Olson received a link to an article on “Hiking Etiquette 101: The 12 Trail Rules You Should Know” from the folks in England that make the green wellies (green rubber boots). The Trails Alliance has a “rule” of not providing links to commercial organizations on our web site but it got us to thinking that we needed a link to something about trail etiquette on our site. So we hunted around on the web and found a good trail etiquette graphic on the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance web page and they graciosly gave us to the OK to put it on our site. You’ll find a Trail Etiquette link on the right hand margin of our page. (Boulder Mountainbike Alliance, bouldermountainbike.org)

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Letter from our friends in The Santa Fe Fat Tire Society and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance:

Standing and riding together for national monuments
By Mark Allison and Brent Bonwell Jul 22, 2017

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5931 volunteer hours during 2016

Wow that’s a lot of hours! The hours were divided between hours spent on trails for the City 2426hr, County 1560 hours, USFS 1555.25 hours and the Gallisteo Basin Preserve 345 hours. With volunteers organizations from the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society leading the way with 1180 hours, the BMX/Freeride/moto-x volunteers at 824 hours followed by the Trails Alliance’s 670 hours.

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Wondering about current trail conditions?

There is something new on the left sidebar of our web pages called “Trail Conditions”. The Santa Fe Fat Tire Society created this twitter feed several years ago so that people could easily report the condition of the trail they just rode on. We decided to give it a try on our site. You can comment on anything to do with trails in our area, if there is mud or you want people to know that the wild flowers are blooming. The process of “feeding” the tweet is easy and the details can be found here: How to Post Trail conditions

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New Signs on Dale Ball Trails

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Thirty-four new junction signs have been installed on the Santa Fe City-side of the Dale Ball Trails, and soon another ten will be installed on the County sections, as well as on the La Piedra and Little Tesuque trails! The Trust and volunteers from the Trails Alliance of Santa Fe have been hard at work installing them, so your wayfinding will be easier on these eastern foothill trails.
Thanks to the City of Santa Fe Parks and Recreation Division for funding them. The old ones had been up there for over ten years, and definitely needed a facelift.

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Santa Fe National Forest Management Plan Revision –

Please click on the links below to see information regarding the Santa Fe National Forest Fall 2016 Field Trips and Wilderness Evaluation Meetings relating to the forest plan revision.
Forest Revision Plan Field Trips
Public Meetings on Santa Fe Forest Plan Revision

 

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News Flash

Santa Fe County has great new resource on trails in the county. We will add it to our Local Trials list and you can check it out here.

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Trails Alliance of Santa Fe 2015 Wrap-up

It seems impossible, but once again volunteer time spent working on trails in 2015 broke a record: over 5000 hours. The volunteer organization that has evolved under the Trails Alliance of Santa Fe guidance is an over-the-top success.

The Santa Fe Conservation Trust provides the administrative support that keeps the Alliance working smoothly through the Trails Program Manager.  This position is possible through a professional services agreement with the City of Santa Fe for “City Trail Volunteer Coordinator” services, an arrangement that was promoted by BTAC (the City’s Bike and Trails Advocacy Committee) and funded by City Council.  With this support, the Trust hired Tim Rogers as its Trails Program Manager to keep the city-side of trails hopping (see www.sfct.org/trails/sfct-trail-events-in-2015).

On the county-side, Carol Branch of the Santa Fe County Community Services organizes trail maintenance and community events. We also provide the Forest Service with volunteers, coordinated by Jennifer Sublett.

This year the Trust found a home for a key asset: our large accumulation of specialized tools.  Many thanks to Murray Brott of A-1 Self Storage for donating storage space without which we couldn’t accomplish dozens of work days on the trails.

A key partner in trail projects is the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society. Many of our volunteers come to us through the SFFTS. Working with mountain bike riders, two new trail initiatives blossomed in 2015: a new flow trail and the Grand Unified Trail System initiative. The flow trail is a one-way, one mile trail in La Tierra which attracts mountain bike riders, both local and tourist. The Grand Unified Trail System is an initiative to link trail networks all around Santa Fe. The Grand Unified Trail System will require coordination among many state, county, city, private, and federal organizations. The Trust received a private grant to coordinate this initiative.

In the County, The Masters Program, a charter high school at the Santa Fe Community College, has built a trails maintenance community service project, training teenagers in best practices. The County has also instituted a Teen Court Program to work on trails.

The City, County and Keep Santa Fe Beautiful (KSFB) are providing support to replace trail-head and faded Dale Ball junction signs; the Trust and County installed an interpretive sign on the La Piedra Trail which has become an important destination for hikers; and the County installed new signs on Talaya Hill Open Space. Trails Alliance volunteers worked with County and City staff to get the signs planted.

The key to the successes of the Trails Alliance of Santa Fe is the way it gathers public and private land managers with volunteers to work together to improve trails. The Santa Fe Conservation Trust’s professional services agreement with the City of Santa Fe provides invaluable assistance to our success.

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Thanks to all who helped Galisteo Basin meet their challenge grant!!

If you love trails, here’s a great way to help them.
The Galisteo Basin Preserve (www.galisteobasinpreserve.com) allows hikers, bikers, and equestrians to use their trails. This is a non-profit organization which needs help to maintain its wonderful trail network.

If you donate by the end of the year your donation will be matched by a challenge grant from an anonymous donor so even if you can only donate a little it will help a lot!

Your donation helps maintain trails which become eroded by wash-outs or over-use. Signs, parking lots, maps, and roads all require funding. Without your help, the trails will suffer. Please be generous and show the Galesteo Basin Preserve how much we appreciate its trails

In case you were wondering about liability while on a trail…
by Margaret Alexander

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