The Friends of the Sandia Mountains (FOSM) led a trail crew up to continue work on the Cienega/Armijo Trails Improvement Project (CATIP). The crew completed the connections of Reroute TC03 to Madera Locura and a new connection to Elk Track. This is a big milestone: the CATIP trail network now has sustainable trail connections to Faulty and Canoncito trails providing access to trail loops in CATIP. The CATIP creeps up to 72% complete.  

A crew of eleven volunteers showed up for the trail session: Jim Houle, Lorna Morrow, Sim Cook, Eric Russell, Byron Garner, Cleve Sharp, Mark Grazier, Pat and Mike Madden, and Betsy and Bob Galloway. The crew was supervised by Russell Berman, Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands Resource Assistant, Trails.

On the hike in, the crew continued the process of shuttling trail signs to the appropriate intersections for an upcoming sign planting project in September. 

The crew sat down for lunch before starting a shorter reroute further down the trail. But dark clouds started building up and when thunder became louder, the decision was made to quickly get off the mountain. We know the task for next week. 

All pics in the attachment by Betsy Galloway.

Bob Galloway 
FOSM Project Leader