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| Old Mt. Charlie (photo by Kurt Kuznicki) |
Showing posts with label Mt Charleston Wilderness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mt Charleston Wilderness. Show all posts
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
The Zappos Family and KEEN Footwear: Improving Mt. Charleston for Everyone!
All photos by Jose Witt.
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| One hundred volunteers arrive at Mt. Charleston ready to work! |
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| Crowning our Blue Helmet Volunteer, Elyse B.! |
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| Team Clean BBQ versus... |
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| Team Cleaner BBQ!! |
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| Team Paint represents! |
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| Show that grill who's boss! |
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| After a day a trail clean-up, the team at Sawmill Trailhead is tired but smiling! |
All photos by Jose Witt.
The Zappos Family and KEEN Footwear: More Smiles and Stewardship
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| Sharing a stewardship smile with Ray and Jerry! |
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| Loving some Dutch oven cake! |
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| Repainting the picnic furniture at Old Mill Picnic Area |
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| Temple mugs for the camera! |
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| "Look how dirty I am!" |
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| Smiling for the wild! |
All photos by Kurt Kuznicki
Thursday, June 21, 2012
The Zappos Family and Keen Footwear: Sunshine, Stewardship, and Smiles
Volunteers from the Zappos Family and KEEN Footwear headed up to Mt. Charleston to improve three popular public picnicking areas.
Check back for more pictures from the event in the coming days!
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| Our Zappos Family Blue Helmet winner, Elyse, represents! |
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| Ready to work! |
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| Scraping off the old before painting the new - volunteers painted over 20 tables and benches |
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| Repurposing outdated calendars into greeting cards and envelopes while enjoying the fresh air |
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| Dutch oven demonstration |
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| A bonding moment in neon for Southern Nevada Program Director Kurt Kuznicki and Stewardship Program Director Pat Bruce |
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| Smile! |
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| Keeping fueled! |
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| Sampling a Dutch oven delight, courtesy of Stewardship Program Director Pat Bruce |
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| Teamwork works best! |
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| Giving the public barbeque grills a fresh coat of paint! A dozen grills were cleaned out, scraped off, and re-painted. |
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| Everybody say wild! |
Check back for more pictures from the event in the coming days!
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
2011: Year of the Volunteer!
In 2011, volunteers worked on 135 projects, totalling over 10,500 hours, and donating a total of $225,000 of in-kind labor. If Nevada's wild lands could thank you, they would!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Griffith Peak Re-Route Project
Friends of Nevada Wilderness, the Student Conservation Association interns under the Southern Nevada Agency Partnership, and over 20 volunteers will be working over the next ten days to re-route the trail to the summit of Griffith Peak, the third highest mountain in the Spring Mountains.
Some will be camping out along the trail while others will come up to help for a day or bring up supplies.
A pack string will bring up water for the trail crew.
And they're off! Check back for regular updates on the team's progress!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Journey to the Center of the Wild: Kurt Kuznicki and the Las Vegas Mountaineers Club on the South Loop Trail
By Kurt Kuznicki
We partnered with the US Forest Service and another volunteer along with the Las Vegas Mountaineers Club to work on the South Loop Trail in the Mt. Charleston Wilderness. Five of us camped overnight before the trip in the Cathedral Rock area.
We hiked up the South Loop Trail with the intentions of restoring the big switchback cuts just below the ridge, but turned around because of slippery, snowy slopes.
We came back down to around 9700 ft and started repairing switchback cuts on the way down. It was pretty chilly and the trail was wet and muddy but we were rewarded with beautiful view of a cloudy valley and a very snowy Mt. Charleston. 
A great big "Wild Thank You" to the Las Vegas Mountaineers Club for coming out on a chilly damp day to make a difference by doing some trail work in the Mt. Charleston Wilderness!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Rain Tree Project
Some folks go to the Mt Charleston Wilderness for enlightenment, others go there to get a from it all, some to esacape the summer heat or enjoy the winter snow, and some folks go there to build things, like wind structures, they're everywhere, on top of peaks, in windy saddles ( am I missing something???) or at the foot of one of the oldest if not the most famous tree in the forest. Wind structures take away from the undeveloped character of the lands and cause damage to the resource. So fight that construction urge if you think you have to build stuff...go buy an erector set or some legos but please leave the Bristlecone alone. Even the stuff that looks dead as door nail it could be 1000's of years old and that old stump could still be alive. Some wonderful volunteers from Friends of Nevada Wilderness hiked up to the Rain Tree via trail Canyon and removed some of the downed Bristlecone from around the area where the Raintree holds court.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Spring Mountains NRA
Brrrr....waking up to a chilly, but beautiful sunrise near the Bonanza Trailhead in the Spring Mountains. See there are trees in southern Nevada.Monday, November 02, 2009
Bonanza Extravaganza 10/31/09
Happy Nevada Day!!!A fun group of Wild southern Nevada volunteers got together to celebrate Nevada Day by getting some trail work accomplished on the Bonanza Trail in the Mt Charleston Wilderness. The highlight of the day was when we got to break out the two person crosscut saw and remove a down tree that was across the trail. WooHoo...good folks, Nevada Day, crosscut saws, double headed axes it just doesn't get any better than that.
Special thanks to all of the volunteers that gave up their Saturday to help take care of their Public Lands.
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