*If you, your organization, or your company are interested in adopting a trail, or participating in Trail Daze, please contact: Wayne Hoffman
Some of the trails around here see far more traffic than others. Because of this, those trails need more work than others. The Adopt-A-Trail program is one way of ensuring that work gets done. The money and labor spent on a given trail adoption goes directly into the upkeep and restoration of That Specific Trail.
Trail adoption commitments:
a) 2 to 5 year contract with adopting organization, SBTS and US Forest Service, Downieville district.
b) Monetary Commitment. The commitment of funds is based upon the length of the adopted trail, composition and stability of the trailbed, and the number of trail users seen each year (these last two factors play a huge role in determining how much upkeep a given trail requires annually). The adopting organization’s financial contribution helps to hire the SBTS work crew to maintain, reconstruct, and in some cases, reroute the adopted trail.
c) The adopting organization must host one Trail Daze work day on their adopted trail each year. This involves employees or members of adopting organization attending and working, serving a trailside lunch, and buying the beer afterwards. SBTS can supply tools, transport, and extra manpower.
Trail adoption benefits:
1) Preservation of a historic trail, and in some cases, the construction of a new trail.
2) Trailhead sign posting. The adopting organization will receive trailhead signs, listing them as the trail supporter. These signs are official USFS, wood routed and hand painted.
3) Adopting organization will receive 20,000 + impressions from trailhead sign posting and 1,000,000 impressions through listing on www.sierratrails.org.
4) Corporate image pairing and the association with Downieville and the surrounding trail system.
6) Thousands of smiling and appreciative trail users.
Trails available for adoption in Tahoe National Forest, Downieville district:
(click on trail for topographic map)
| Butcher Ranch Trail WTB in Mill Valley, California has agreed to adopt Butcher Ranch trail for the 2005 and 2006 season. Work needing to be done: installation of rolling dips, grade reduction in certain areas, water diversions, and section reroutes. |
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| Pauley Creek Trail Santa Cruz Bicycles is working with us on Pauley Vreek trail. Work needing to be done: installation of rolling dips, grade reduction, water diversions, and section reroutes. Santa Cruz Bicycles in Santa Cruz, California has agreed to adopt Pauley Creek trail for the 2005 and 2006 season. |
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| First Divide Trail Sacramento Brewing Company has taken on the task of helping out with 1st Divide. Work needing to be done: installation of rolling dips and water diversions. |
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| Second Divide Trail Fox Racing Shox has agreed to adopt 2nd Divide trail for the 2006 season Work needing to be done: installation of rolling dips, grade reduction, strategic rock removal/rework, and water diversions. |
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| Third Divide Trail Our goal is to narrow the trail back to an 18" tread, and off-slope the trail. This will help to control speeds and protect against watershed contamintaion. TSD Engineering / Chris and Trista Schulze have agreed to help maintain 3rd Divide trail for the 2006 season. Work needing to be done: installation of rolling dips (critical), lessoning of grade, water diversions, and section reroutes. |
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| Bear Lakes Loop | Hangtown Electric
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| Halls Ranch / Fiddle Creek | ABI Industries |
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Rehabilitation project descriptions include: installation of rolling dips to prevent water damage, construction of switchback corners to lesson trail grades, rebuilding and rerouting sections of trail to acheive a 5% grade, new trail construction to tie-in with existing loop trails.Stay tuned to this site for details.
Butcher Ranch-4.0 miles
Big Boulder-3.2 miles
Downie River-3.5 miles
Lavezzola Creek-5.1 miles
Pauley Creek-3.5 miles
Fiddle Creek-6.0 miles
Halls Ranch-5.0 miles
Third Divide-2.8 miles
Second Divide-6.1 miles
First Divide-3.4 miles
Chimney Rock-4.8 miles
Empire Creek-2.5 miles
North Yuba-8.2 miles
Tamarack-.2 miles
Upper Salmon-2.0 miles
Slug Canyon-.8 miles
Sierra Buttes-3.3 miles
Sardine Lake Overlook-4.0 miles
Deer Lake-2.9 miles
TOTAL=71.3 miles
Thanks to Jada Beyer at Sierra Woods for producing the trailhead signs for the Adopt-a-Trail program.
Sierra Woods manufactures custom wood windows and doors for the residential market throughout northern California and Nevada. web site: www.sierrawoods.com
if you, your organization, or your company are interested in adopting a trail, or participating in Trail Daze, please contact: Wayne Hoffman