Friends of the Eagles Nest Wilderness: Volunteer Opportunities

Trail Crew Leaders Wanted!

Trail Projects for 2008

If you enjoy hiking or horseback riding in the Eagles Nest or Ptarmigan Peak Wildernesses, please consider giving back just one day of your time to keep the trails in good condition.

For all Trail Projects:
Please RSVP if you plan to come to a trail project. Signing up will help us to better plan trail projects and teams. If you have questions about physical requirements, the project and/or to sign up, call the person or email for each project.

Meet at 8 am at the Dillon Ranger District Office in Silverthorne (just north of 6th St. on Hwy 9). We will serve a light breakfast of coffee, bagels and juice and end the day with refreshments and a tailgate party. Volunteers should come prepared for a day on the trails with your hiking boots, water, lunch, raingear, long pants and gloves.

Acorn Creek (National Trails Day) - June 7, Sat.
rsvp@fenw.org.

Gateways: Mesa Cortina - June 28, Sat.
rsvp@fenw.org.

Mesa Cortina Turnpike Demolition - August 23, Sat.
rsvp@fenw.org.

Work to dismantle and disperse existing turnpike sections which are in disrepair. Reconstruct sections. Perform other trail reconstruction, as required. Picture on the right shows the disintegrating turnpike just south of South Willow Creek. Contact Currie at 970-453-9056 or currie@fenw.org.

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Wilderness Volunteer Program

FENW and the U.S. Forest Service are partners in this program.

Opportunities are available for people to volunteer for visitor education (talking with and helping visitors in the Eagles Nest Wilderness, Holy Cross, and Ptarmigan Peak Wildernesses), noxious weed inventory, and campsite inventory and restoration.

Volunteers will commit to at least 4 days of stewardship from the day after training in either May or June through September plus at least 1 training day.

For more details and an application form, click here.

If you are interested in this program please email summitwv@fenw.org or call Cyndi at 970-468-6699

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