Free test rides after Demo trailwork on Sunday with Specialized

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Trail work supporters!

We've been offered a nice treat to help boost recruitment for this Sunday's work in Soquel Forest -- Specialized will join us, and they are bringing bikes!

Specialized will be hosting the coffee and yummy snax during the morning sign-in from 8:30 to 9:00, and will hang around while we are doing trailwork, taking donations for "Free the Trail" T shirts in the parking lot, and then will open up their trailer in the afternoon to offer free test rides for the day's volunteers on the new 2005 Specialized mountain bikes (first volunteer sign-ups get first choice of bike). I think they are bringing the new S-works Enduros, Stumpjumper 120's and a couple of Epics. To reserve your spot in line, volunteer now at Trailworkers.com

We could really use more volunteers. Four days to go and we have 1(one) person signed up. Come ON people! Time for cross training! Get your upper body workout in and feel good doing it! We have a lot of work to do and the rain is pounding the forest as I write. We need to complete finish work on the re-route around the wall at the end of Ridge, then move on to our mega-important drainage maintenance on SawPit

The weather should offer a break later this week. Hopefully it will be nice for Sunday. In the meantime, we need to do our work to prevent erosion! If not, maybe we will have a wet T-shirt contest and mud wrestling party... so either way, you'll be glad you volunteered! and are on your way to winning the Trailworkers.com grand prize!

Patty Ciesla
Stewards of Soquel Forest


Here's the weather info I got today:

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:56:02 -0500
From: Weather Underground Email Service <emailer@email.wunderground.com>
Subject: Flood Watch for Soquel, CA

Flood Watch
155 am PST Wed Dec 8 2004

...Urban and small stream flood advisory has been issued until 600 am
for Sonoma...Marin...San Francisco...San Mateo and Santa Cruz
counties...

Moderate rain has been falling across the coastal counties the past
several hours...with pockets of heavier rainfall accumulating at the
quarter to half inch per hour rate. Satellite and radar data indicate
moderate to heavy rain will continue to generate offshore and move
into these areas during the remainder of the overnight hours.
Standing water on roadways and in urban areas will be the major
concern...but the continued rainfall could also create mudslides...
especially along Highway 17 through the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Couple of interesting rain gauge links around SDSF -- your tax dollars at work:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryID?s=1848 (Burrell Fire Station on Summit Road)
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryID?s=7799 (Mt. Umunhum to the north)
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryID?s=10149 (Olive Springs Quarry on southwest edge of SDSF)
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/plotReal?staid=COR (Corralitos to the southeast - all sensors plotted)
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryLonger?2043 (Soquel Creek in old town Soquel, by the coast to the south of SDSF)

This email was sent to Charles Jalgunas' list of volunteer trailworkers in the Santa Cruz Mountains

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