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Stile Ranch Trail BART Work Day, Santa Teresa Park, 11/6/21 by Ronald Horii
The Bay Area Ridge Trail (BART, http://www.ridgetrail.org/) is nearly 400 miles long and circles the Bay Area. Part of the trail runs through Santa Teresa County Park:
https://ridgetrail.org/santa-teresa-county-park-and-los-alamitos-calero-creek-trail/
November 6, 2021 was Ridge Trail Day: https://ridgetrail.org/rtd2021/
#RidgeTrailDay
There were service projects on the Ridge Trail all over the Bay Area. One of those projects was on the Stile Ranch Trail in Santa Teresa Park. It was a partnership between the Santa Clara County Parks (http://www.parkhere.org/), the Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship (SCMTS, https://santacruztrails.org/), and the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council. The County Parks Trail Crew spent several days preparing the trail. They put base rock on the lower half of the switchbacks and marked off the work areas. Here's the description of the job for the trail day volunteers: "We plan to prevent erosion on the trails by creating long lasting drainage points using rock to armor eroded sections of the trail, as well as block off a shortcut trail, and remove introduced species in the area." These are the pictures of the trail day.
This is what the trail looked like after the work day: https://tinyurl.com/nauyasxh
Here's more information and maps on Santa Teresa County Park:
https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/santa-teresa-county-park
Here are my pictures of Santa Teresa County Park: http://www.rhorii.com/#santateresa
Here are pictures of a previous Ridge Trail work day on the Stile Ranch Trail on November 5, 2016: http://www.stpfriends.org/Stile_11-05-16/TrailDay.html
That day was mostly dirt work, and the groups were spread out farther along the trail. Today's project involved a lot of heavy rock work and was only on the front switchbacks.
The Bay Area Ridge Trail (BART, http://www.ridgetrail.org/) is nearly 400 miles long and circles the Bay Area. Part of the trail runs through Santa Teresa County Park:
https://ridgetrail.org/santa-teresa-county-park-and-los-alamitos-calero-creek-trail/
November 6, 2021 was Ridge Trail Day: https://ridgetrail.org/rtd2021/
#RidgeTrailDay
There were service projects on the Ridge Trail all over the Bay Area. One of those projects was on the Stile Ranch Trail in Santa Teresa Park. It was a partnership between the Santa Clara County Parks (http://www.parkhere.org/), the Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship (SCMTS, https://santacruztrails.org/), and the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council. The County Parks Trail Crew spent several days preparing the trail. They put base rock on the lower half of the switchbacks and marked off the work areas. Here's the description of the job for the trail day volunteers: "We plan to prevent erosion on the trails by creating long lasting drainage points using rock to armor eroded sections of the trail, as well as block off a shortcut trail, and remove introduced species in the area." These are the pictures of the trail day.
This is what the trail looked like after the work day: https://tinyurl.com/nauyasxh
Here's more information and maps on Santa Teresa County Park:
https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/santa-teresa-county-park
Here are my pictures of Santa Teresa County Park: http://www.rhorii.com/#santateresa
Here are pictures of a previous Ridge Trail work day on the Stile Ranch Trail on November 5, 2016: http://www.stpfriends.org/Stile_11-05-16/TrailDay.html
That day was mostly dirt work, and the groups were spread out farther along the trail. Today's project involved a lot of heavy rock work and was only on the front switchbacks.
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