Volunteers at the rim of Babyfoot Lake. September 2012. 17 January 2013 | Ashland, OR — The SMC kicked off the year right, with news we received a grant from the Carpenter Foundation. SMC director Gabe Howe submitted a grant […]
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12 December 2013 | Ashland, OR — Last spring, Keen Footwear offered SMC volunteers a 50% discount on boots to be used in the field on trail maintenance projects. I got my hands on a pair of 6-inch Portland PRs […]
Boater enjoying the Chetco River, photo courtesy Northwest Rafting Co. 7 January 2013 | Ashland, OR — In 2002 Allen Wilson’s outfitting business on the Chetco went up in smoke with the Biscuit Fire. His trail route into the Chetco […]
6 January 2012 | Ashland, OR — The Siskiyou Mtn Club is now operating out of an office in Ashland’s Hardwired Building, donated by generous funder John Fields, owner-operator of Golden-Fields Construction. Suite 112 As its programs grew, the Club […]
1 January 2013 | Ashland, OR — The Club has released its 2013 project dates, available at www.siskiyoumountainclub.org/volunteers. In the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area, early season crews will focus on recovering anterior sections of the Trans-Kalmiopsis Route that fill in every […]
The Chetco River’s “magic canyon” below Carter Creek 21 December 2012 | Ashland, OR — The Chetco River has everything a backcountry boater could want. It’s undeveloped and uncontrolled. And it’s upper reaches are remote, wild. Pristine. Boaters on their […]
by SMC coordinator Gabe Howe10 December 2012 | Soda Mountain Wilderness Area — Yesterday morning longtime volunteer Lisa Stutey and I left Ashland at 5am for the Soda Mountain Wilderness. Our goal was to remove the last remaining downed log […]
Bailey Mtn | 7 December 2012 — When you’re down there in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, make sure to be aware of the Kalmiopsis leprechauna, a dwarfed hominid species that evolved in the deep nooks and crannies of the Chetco and […]
SMC Founder and Director Gabe Howe, Soda Mtn Wilderness Area by Gabe Howe Ashland, OR | 4 December 2012 — Now is your chance to double the value of your year-end tax deductible gift to the SMC. I will take […]