Speak up for the wild | The Trek's vlogger | Enhanced gpx file | Parking wins

This is the mission statement for the thru-hike:

1. Raise awareness that the thru-hike exists – that people can hike from Santa Plaza to Taos Plaza.

2. Get people excited enough about the thru-hike to consider doing it themselves, and to give them confidence that they can do it.

3. Give them enough information, resources, and a well-enough maintained trail to have a great time on the thru-hike.

4. Give people a positive experience of the wild so they will care enough about it to take ongoing, meaningful action to preserve it.

In the spirit of #4, please leave a public comment about your opposition to rolling back the roadless rule. NMWild has a nice page about what’s at stake and how to leave a great comment. It is also entirely focused on New Mexico’s lands, so it might make this a little closer to home (literally) for all of us.

✨ Thank you.✨

Lauren Roerick begins her Santa Fe to Taos Thru-Hike soon

Follow along at her Instagram account or at The Trek’s Instagram account.

The Enhanced GPX file exists

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I know - just when you had all given up that I would ever get around to this, here it comes. Am I doing this because I am slightly freaked out by the visibility Lauren doing the thru-hike is likely to create? Yes - yes I am.

A draft of the file will be available to SF2T members first, then to everyone else a bit later. You - you excellent newsletter subscriber - will have access to it a few days before the general public. ‘Cause you’re special.

I am testing the enhanced gpx file in OnX, AllTrails, and CalTopo. I’m editing it in Gaia. Here’s what it looks like in CalTopo:

Parking wins in progress

I have a spoken agreement for three spaces near Santa Fe Plaza that will be available for free for “longterm” parking (two weeks or so) to SF2T members. This is an even better deal than what the Hilton said they would do then backed out of, as this particular parking lot is significantly more secure than the Hilton’s. More soon.

Another win, related to parking at the Santa Fe Ski Basin. That’s all I’ll say for now… don’t want to jinx it.

I will be “tabling” at the NM Outdoor Economics Conference in Gallup this week

From Monday through to Wednesday afternoon. Stop by, should you be there.

That’s it for now. Thanks for reading to the end.

Pam

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