Category: Trail Projects

Eight hikers, supported by 7 Backcountry Horsemen riders, backpacked into Lilley Park in the Gila to lop brush and work on tread for 4 days, on a joint NMVFO and BCH-Gila project. Our site was without water, so riders had made several trips before we arrived to haul in water, and the riders camped at a different site to do sawing.

We did have snow flurries during the first two days, even during working, but little or no wind. A hot tent was really welcome in the morning before the sun came up.

Seven volunteers from Socorro NM met up to install new metal trail signs on local BLM trails: Blue Canyon, Black Canyon, Descansos, Gramont, Dirt Wall, and one more.

For some signs we pounded in t-posts, and for others used existing t-posts.

Near the end of the project we enjoyed “burrito o’clock“, a tradition with Socorro volunteers.

A big thanks goes to the BLM Socorro Field Office, and all the volunteers.