From our friends at the Land Trust – Watch for TDLT/DPMR Trail Work Days on the calendar coming soon. It’s shaping up to be another full summer of trail work for the Truckee Donner Land Trust (TDLT)! Last year we saw the completion of four new miles of Donner Lake Rim Trail connecting from the […]
Trail Stewardship
2020 Volunteer Opportunities with DPMR
Are you interested in giving back to the community and/or the trail network that we all use and love? Help is always needed at aid stations and on trail work days. We are also looking for group run leaders! Here’s what is going on in 2020: Help at DPMR Aid Stations DPMR will be hosting […]
2019 Trail Work Schedule
Trail Stewardship has always been a core value dear to our DPMR hearts – and the relentless winters of 2017 and 2019 have proven to be especially taxing on the trails we cherish. Join us for some upcoming trail work days – we promise, as always, it’ll be GOOD, DIRTY FUN! Our first DPMR 2019 […]
DPMR Trail work – Friday, June 8, 2018
Our second DPMR – TDLT (Truckee Donner Land Trust) Trail Work Day is coming up on Friday, June 8, 2018! Location TBD – please sign up on this link if you’re available, and when Kevin from the Land Trust finalizes the details he will email you with meeting place, time, and instructions. Trail work days […]
Trail Stewardship with the Chainsaw Lady
“Make it better.” Three memorable words written on a note from Matt Brownlee, Trails Manager for the USFS. These three words describe the unrelenting hunger to nurture the Western States Trail, and have become my mantra for running the trail stewardship program since 2014. Beginning in the early 1990’s, trail stewardship for the Western States […]
Trail Work Parties
Post written by Kevin Starr, Truckee Donner Land Trust* Winter 2016/17 was one for the record books that made for fantastic ski conditions, but the multiple atmospheric river events combined with above-average snowpack runoff have also contributed to excessive erosion on many of our area trails. With its steep nature and tender soils, one of the […]
Good Dirty Fun!
Come get dirty with us and give your local trails a little loving! Donner Party Mountain Runners have trail work days scheduled for Thursday, May 19, 2016 and Saturday, June 11, 2016, in the Truckee area. Trail work starts at 8:30am and we are generally done by 3:30pm. These will be in the Truckee / Donner […]
Give a little to get a lot! Trail work opportunities on WS Trail
Every precious step we take on any trail that leads us on our fantastic journeys through the mountains, canyons, forests, ridge lines and beyond, is made possible through the work of those who build and maintain that network of trails. These trails provide us the opportunity to pursue our passion for trail running. Think just […]
Trail Building at Royal Gorge
On Sunday, October 11th, sixteen volunteers led by Betsy Nye and Kevin Starr (Truckee Donner Land Trust), joined forces to build a beautiful new section of trail, as part of the new Royal Gorge Rim Trail. Click here for more information about the Royal Gorge area and a trail map. We parked near the Ice Lakes Lodge […]
Kicking off the Trail Work Season
The first day of our trail work season kicked off on a beautiful Thursday morning in April. Thirteen hard-working runners gathered at the Glacier Way trail head in Tahoe Donner to do trail work on the Donner Lake Rim Trail. We were led by Kevin from the Truckee Donner Land Trust. Once everyone had […]
