Backcountry Season is NOW! – Los Padres Forest
Spring has sprung or is springing across the Los Padres… The grass is green, the big mountains are covered in snow, the creeks and rivers are flowing strong and the mountains should be calling ~
Los Padres New Years Information, LPFA
A Big Sunset Across Little Pine, no Photoshop or filters needed…. Hello Friends ~ Happy Holidays! You’re likely getting inundated with year-end emails so we’ll keep this short but we needed to share a couple Los
LPFA Working Vacations: Hammers, Pulaskis and Friends!
Manzana Schoolhouse Re-Roofed The LPFA just wrapped up an incredibly successful 5-day Working Vacation based at the Manzana Schoolhouse. In addition to the usual top-notch trail work, our volunteers also replaced the decrepit roof on
Los Padres Backcountry Season is Here!!!
MANZANA SCHOOLHOUSE WORKING VACATION: Nov 1-6, 2023 Hello Friends, Lets get right to it! The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting cooler and we know what that means: BACKCOUNTRY SEASON IS HERE!
LPFA Working Vacation Season is Here!
Hello Friends, Heading into 2023, the LPFA Program of Work was going to feature large scale trail projects on quite a few of the more remote trails located deep within the Los Padres backcountry. We
Sespe Working Vacation & Exciting Santa Cruz Trail News!
Hello Friends – HAPPY THANKSGIVING! While there is much to be thankful for here in the Los Padres, we are most thankful for the 32 volunteers who helped out last week on our Sespe Working
Fire Restrictions, Trail work Updates & Volunteer Opportunities
Hello Friends, While the green of Spring certainly has felt short-lived this year, with 100% of the state of CA experiencing drought and 41 (out of 58) counties experiencing a drought emergency, we were glad to get
Trail work, Forest Updates & More!
Hello Friends, Since 2020 was pretty much a lost year for forest projects, we’ve been trying hard the past few months to catch up on some of the todo’s from last year while also moving
Hindsight is 2020
Hello Friends, As we near the end of 2020, the saying ‘Hindsight is 20/20’ has never been more applicable or felicitous. While 2020 will live in infamy for so many reasons (no LPFA Working Vacations – BOO), we
Los Padres Fire Restrictions & Lots of Good News
Hello Friends, The big forest news this past week was the Forest Service announcing that the Los Padres is going into Extreme Fire Danger restrictions until at least December 31, 2019. We’ve all seen the
