What a most excellent ShinDig! This past Saturday, we had about 30 volunteers come out for a joint SMT/CCMR ShinDig on the Rainbow and Columbine trails. Over the course of the morning, we reworked an extensive portion of highly-eroded trail on the Bear Creek section of the Rainbow Trail, and installed numerous drainage points. This […]
Thanks to everyone who came out to our recent July ShinDig! We had 14 volunteers that worked to re-bench on the lower Lost Trail, to improve sustainability and flow. We also performed extensive work to address the three drainage flows that cross the trail at lower Lost, intending to decrease soil erosion on the mountain […]
ShinDig Volunteer Day Saturday, July 9, 2015, 8:45am Our goal for the upcoming July ShinDig is to rework lower Lost Trail, rebenching a section of trail that is damaged. Please meet at the Burmac parking lot at 8:45am, to leave for the work site by 9. After the trail work, a free lunch will be […]
Our goal for the upcoming June ShinDig is to finish the work that we began in May. Last month, we successfully roughed-in the first–and steepest–half of the connector trail that will lead to the City’s soon-to-be-built labyrinth. Building this trail is one small way to say “thank you” to the City of Salida for purchasing and […]
Since our April ShinDig was canceled, the goal for our May ShinDig will be to rough out a connecting trail from the end of the Sweet Dreams trail to the location where the new Labyrinth, situated on city property, will begin. Please meet at the F-street Bridge parking lot at 8:45am, to leave for the […]
Unfortunately, the ShinDig that was scheduled for this coming Saturday, April 16th, has been CANCELED due to incoming bad weather. We’ll undertake work on the Labyrinth trail during our May ShinDig. For now, be sure to check out these other ways that you can get involved with SMT: Additional Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities April 29, 7pm: […]
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the ShinDig has been CANCELED due to weather. We’ll undertake work on the Labyrinth during our May ShinDig. Saturday, April 16, 2016, 8:45am The goal for our monthly ShinDig will be to rough out a connecting trail from the end of the Sweet Dreams trail to the location where the new Labyrinth, situated […]
The new Burn Pile is finally complete! The crew at Tony Boone Trails finished the final segment from Lil Rattler to Spiral Drive late Monday. The final trail measures about 7/8th of a mile in length and drops close to 250ft in elevation. There are two ways to access the trail: one is by riding […]
Burn Pile is a trail that has always been under-utilized, mostly because of the poor design and build quality. Frontside, on the other hand, was never designed to handle the volume of traffic it currently sees–much less what it will experience in the future. In an effort to direct descending mountain bikers off of Frontside […]
This weekend Salida Mountain Trails installed brand-new signage in the Arkansas Hills Trail System to make navigating our excellent trails as easy as possible! Totaling 38 new trail name and map signs, this project was a lengthy undertaking many months in the making. The installation required 15 volunteers putting in some 160 volunteer hours, as […]
