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Join the Trail Crew

Are you a motivated volunteer who wants to work on the trails?  Come help us! Just follow these steps:

Step 1

Sign the volunteer waiver form. You need to sign a new waiver once every year, prior to working on the trails.

Step 2

Email the STA Trail Manager to explain your proposed volunteering effort.  The STA Trail Manager needs to approve your trail work before it occurs. They’ll let you know of other work parties you can join too.

Kincaid Trail Manager
Andy Petroni
stakincaid@gmail.com

Hillside Trail Manager
Cody Gauer
stahillside@gmail.com

Step 3

After you have STA approval, start working on the trails. Make sure to follow these rules:

  1. Trail Maintenance is repairing the trail back to original design conditions.

  2. You cannot change the character of the trail. 

    1. No changing jumps, or jump lip angles, or jump landings

    2. No changing berms or technical trail features

    3. No adding reroutes or new lines

    4. You can only repair trail back to original design conditions.

  3. Only complete trail work that is within your skill level. 

  4. Use proper safety protocols when working on the trail. Where your bike helmet, gloves, hard toe shoes, etc. Make sure other users can see you easily on the trail.

  5. Standard Tasks (These can be performed by any volunteer)

    1. Repairing ruts

    2. Fixing trail tread

    3. Fixing drainage

    4. Cutting out punji sticks with hand saws or loppers

  6. Skilled Tasks (These can only be performed by skilled volunteers with oversight of the Trail Manager)

    1. Repairing berms

    2. Repairing jump lips and landings

    3. Repairing technical trail features

  7. Report your volunteer hours to the STA Trail Manager.

Why all these rules?  STA is allowed to maintain our trails through an agreement with the Municipality of Anchorage, who is the landowner.  These rules are set up so that we follow the maintenance agreement with the Municipality. If you have ideas on how to make the trails better please contact your STA Trail Manager. Thanks for your help!