Author Archives: Skagit Trail Builders

Please join us at a City Council meeting Wednesday evening at 7:00pm at the Mount Vernon Police Department. Mount Vernon is extremely fortunate to be faced with a once in a lifetime opportunity. This Wednesday our City Council will hear a Skagit Land Trust and Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation proposal to increase the sizeContinue reading “Please help us support the expansion of Little Mountain Park”

Thanks to Windermere Realty for their volunteer group this past Friday and Saturday. For the two days they had a total of 90.1 volunteer hours. This is our new record for our featured groups. Windermere has a corporate Community Service Day and chose our group to help. We thank them for their support. Here isContinue reading “Thanks to Windermere Realty for a great work party weekend”

This week we break ground on the bridge, digging the bridge footings. Tomorrow we will start at 9:00 am and on Saturday at 10:00 am. Lunch is being provided by Windermere Real Estate Friday and on Saturday by the Estep family. We’re doing our best to keep great lunches coming. Thanks Josh and Leslie. AndContinue reading “Join us this Friday and Saturday, June 15/16”

We’d like to send out a special thank you to the major donors who have contributed money and resources to our Nature Trail project. Without their support we would not be on track to complete our Nature Trail and bridge projects this summer. Kiwanis Club of Mount Vernon $10,000 The City of Mount Vernon $10,000Continue reading “Thanking our major donors”

Our work resumes on the Nature Trail this weekend. On Friday we start at 9:00 am, on Saturday at 10:00 am. A special thanks to all of you that came out over the long weekend. We hit our average turnout numbers, which we never believed was possible. Thank you! This coming weekend will be ourContinue reading “Join us this Friday and Saturday”

We had 6 workers on Friday and 15 on Saturday. This was an excellent turnout for a holiday weekend. The lead crew removing the duff is at the point where the trail turns east. At that point, we are 175′ from the bridge site. The trail is completed about 75′ back from that point. SoContinue reading “Our May 25/26 sessions”

Our work continues on the Nature Trail this weekend. On Friday we start at 9:00 am, on Saturday we meet at 10:00 am. Unfortunately with the sessions falling on a long weekend we’ll be missing a few key people. So if you’re staying in town, and you’ve been thinking about coming out this would beContinue reading “Join us this Friday and/or Saturday”

Photo by Terry Afdem We continue our work on the Nature Trail. Like our last trail building weekend we work Friday (5/11), starting at 9:00 am – and Saturday (5/12), starting at 10:00 am. Since we’ve heard that weekends do not work for many of you we added Fridays. We hope that more of youContinue reading “Join us Friday and/or Saturday this week”

Little Mountain Park was selected as a location for a Bellingham Trail Running Series race. The event is this Sunday, May 6th. This event benefits Mount Vernon Trail Builders. So please help spread the word if you have friends or family that enjoy trail running events.

We are still having work sessions on the second and fourth Fridays and Saturdays of the month. This Friday a handful of trailbuilders turned out to help us continue the Nature Trail. On Saturday we had an even larger turn out. We have The Skagit Valley Food Co-Op to thank for an excellent lunch. WeContinue reading “Last weekend on the Nature Trail”