Adopt-A-Trail

Join us and help keep your public lands open.

Welcome to our adopt-a-trail reports section for Holcomb Creek Trail in the San Bernardino National Forest, just outside of Fawnskin, California. On average, many in our group of now 60+ head out once a month during the spring, summer and fall to patrol, clean up and check for maintenance needs. What do we need from you? It's easy and fun for the whole family. Join us on cleanup runs - there's a job for anyone of any age. Find out more and sign up here on the forums.

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Holcomb Water Crossing Work

5 Hardworking Adopt-A-Trail volunteers; Chuck, Alycia, Doug, Cathy, and Ryan, worked an eleven hour work day on the Holcomb Creek trail moving rocks, mud, and even bigger rocks.

  • 08 / 2009

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August Holcomb Creek Workday

By Ryan – Our Trail Maintenance day on the Holcomb Creek trail began with our safety meeting at the Valero gas station.

  • 08 / 2009

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Holcomb Creek Rock Garden Work

On the way we were pleased to see that the west end fence was still in place. At the end of 2N06X we ran into Greg and some FJ’s taking their lunch break.

  • 07 / 2009

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Holcomb Rock Garden

By Chuck (Dirtman) – Small group this time out but hard workers none the less. We entered the trail via 3N06X per Greg’s request.

  • 06 / 2009

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Holcomb Creek Workday

By Ryan – Eleven hardworking AAT members met at the Fawnskin Fire Station at 9:00am to continue the dedicated effort to repair the Holcomb Creek trail.

  • 05 / 2009

Holcomb Workday

By Ryan – Our AAT maintenance day began with our safety meeting/sign-in at the Union 76 gas station on HWY 18 at 0830 hrs. Once gathered up, we proceed to the west entrance to Holcomb Creek. Upon arrival to the west entrance we found the wire fence intact. After traveling through the west end rock graden, […]

  • 04 / 2009

Tree Planting and Survey of 3N93

Report from Nick and Kurt: Saturday started off really nice with a full morning of planting trees with over 100 volunteers showing up, and according to Tree People, approx. 1200 trees were put into the ground. Quality work too!

  • 04 / 2009

2N84 Trail Patrol

Report from Chuck and Nick – After the tree planting Nick, Kurt, Ryan, Cathy, Alycia, and I headed over to 2N84 to check out the conditions.

  • 03 / 2009

3N93 Trail Maintenance

After the way the day started I though for sure we wouldn’t get much done. Randy and Carmen’s Jeep broke early on and had to be towed to town for repairs. Jim towed them so they both left for the day. Thanks guys for coming and we hope you got home safely. During the hubbub […]

  • 11 / 2008

3N93 Workday Report

Thanks to Art, Chuck, Nick, and Tom for their hard work lifting and moving rocks. In total we moved approximatley 7,000-10,000 lbs for rocks to fill 5 gabion baskets.

  • 11 / 2008

3N93 Workday: October 18

WOW! Another great workday in the books. Thanks to everyone who came out to help – you guys rock! We all met at the gate around 9am, then Doug and Nick led the safety briefing and plan for the day.

  • 10 / 2008

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3N93 Pre-run Redux

On Friday, October 10th, Nick and Barb (USMC0369) and myself (RAT) did a prerun inspection of 3N93 in preparation for the October 18th run, which is building up to be the biggest yet.

  • 10 / 2008