Join CRAGS – the Sacramento & Highway 50 Climbers’ Coalition - and the Access Fund Conservation Team West for the 2024 trail work season at Lover’s Leap. With help from the Tahoe and Bay Area Climbers’ Coalitions (TCC and BACC), REI and other organizations, we have volunteer opportunities available and we need your help!
As part of our ongoing multi-year project to stabilize and improve the trail infrastructure at the three principal climbing areas in the Highway 50 corridor – Sugarloaf, Phantom Spires and Lover’s Leap – CRAGS is working with the Access Fund over several weeks this summer at Lover’s Leap, starting at the base of Lower Buttress, completing work on the landing platforms and staircases below Surrealistic Pillar and surrounding climbs.
Dates - We are looking for volunteers to join us for several volunteer days this season:
Saturday, July 27 @9am with BACC
Thursday, August 1 @5pm “afterwork” with TCC
Saturday, August 3 @9am with BACC
Wednesday, August 7 time TBD with REI employees*
Saturday, August 10 @9am with TCC → Party to follow!
Details:
Please use the Event Form to share which days you are available.
Meet at 9am at Strawberry Station General Store on Highway 50 (see map link).
Please bring closed toe shoes, work clothes, food and water!
Trail work involves heavy lifting, hard manual labor and dirt/dust.
Gloves and safety glasses are available but please bring gloves, masks and safety glasses if you have your own.
Helmets are welcome and recommended.
Alternate jobs not requiring heavy lifting are available for other volunteers.
Minors must be accompanied by a parent/legal guardian.
Please leave ALL dogs at home.
All volunteers must sign CRAGS (digital - click on the link to sign) + AF waivers (digital - click on the link to sign) + Forest Service waivers.
Reserved campsite available for volunteers on Friday/Saturday night. Space limited. First come, first served, but we’ll do our best to fit you in if we can!
Saturday August 10 at 6pm for Lover’s Fest Annual Fundraiser!
Join us for the 2nd annual summer season “Lover’s Fest” party at Strawberry Station General Store, hosted by Lover’s Leap Guides and your local climbers’ coalition and trailwork sponsor CRAGS.
There will be food - WE'RE ROASTING A WHOLE PIG - plus burgers and dogs and non-meat options. We’ll have cold non-alcoholic drinks sponsored by Adidas Terrex 5.10 and cold “Love the Leap” West Coast IPA beer brewed special for all of you from sponsor Touchstone Brewing Company!
We have an awesome raffle with prizes from many of our sponsors (see poster below), plus we’ll have music and other festivities.
Includes LIVE music starting around 7pm from
Pardon the Interruption: https://www.ptimusic.com/the-band
Opening act Kalhiko goes on at 6pm
First food and tickets are FREE for registered trailwork volunteers
$10 general admission for food and one raffle ticket
Donate more = eat more + get more raffle tickets
Additional tickets $5/ticket or 5 tickets for $20
Prizes from sponsors include hotel stays from Desolation Hotel, ropes from Sterling, GriGri/Neox belay devices, gift certificates, tons of shirts, hats, chalkstuffs, packs, harnesses, and more!
All donations go to CRAGS stewardship work at Lover's Leap and the local Strawberry community
Sunday August 11
Climber coffee at 9am at Strawberry Station General Store
FREE clinics with Lover’s Leap Guides 10am-3pm
FREE clinics (and regular trailwork) with Access Fund Conservation Team 10am-3pm
More details on clinics Saturday night at the party
Meet for clinics Sunday morning at Climber Coffee
Five Ten Adidas Terrex demo shoes from 10am - 3pm
A big thanks to ALL of the awesome partners who are supporting to send this project: Climbing Resource Advocates for Greater Sacramento (CRAGS), Lover’s Leap Guides, Strawberry Station, Tahoe Climbing Coalition, Bay Area Climbers Coalition and the Eldorado National Forest.
Thank you to all the volunteers for your hard work this summer, we can’t do it without you.
Help us build trails and come party with us on August 10 —> sign up now!
Thanks and see you out there,
CRAGS & Lover’s Leap Guides
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