El Camino Bike Shop supports trail building at La Costa Hills with Richard Julien

If you do not know Richard, anyone that walks/rides trails in San Diego should support Richard’s efforts. He is creating and maintaining trails and open spaces across the county. Come out Sat and do a little work.

ECBS will be providing Swag for the event.
Where: Near my house – Corte Romero & Camino Junipero, Carlsbad, CA
When: 8am Saturday Jan 10th
Details below:
From: richard julien
Date: December 21, 2008 9:28:43 AM PST
Subject: La Costa Trail Day
Dear Trail Volunteers
Jan. 10th we are meeting at 8:00 am for four hours of much needed trail maintenance on the very heavily used Switchbacks.
Our job will be to
1) Eliminate as many of the social trails as we can. The idea is show the mountain as small a footprint as possible.
We will attempt to replant native cacti, repair fence and other methods to discourage social (trail cutting) trails.
2) Fill in brake ruts that have broken trail tread encourage erosion and fill with water.
3) Create water bars , grade dips,& nicks. The trail was built long ago with very little water management incorporated.
Today the lack of water management is the trails worst enemy.
4) Repair the many in slope turns ( berms ) due to water damage. See above.
5) Repair sections of the trail that have been blown out and the trail has severely widened.
Work crews will be created so you will be with someone that has an idea of what strategy is best suited for the job.