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Mark Your Calendar! ATA Annual Meeting Saturday, February 5, 2000 Vol. 5, No. 4 News and Information on the State’s border-to-border Arizona Trail project Winter 1999-2000 The Vision… Annual Meeting to Feature The Opportunity National Keynote Speaker The Vision…A continuous, 750-mile non-motorized trail across Arizona Join us Saturday, National Trails System from Mexico to Utah, linking deserts, February 5, 10:00 a.m. Programming since mountains canyons, communities to 2:00 p.m. for the 1989. He has worked and people. year 2000 ATA Annual on dozens of trail The Opportunity…The Arizona Trail Meeting. Arizona Trail planning and design invites hikers, equestrians, mountain Association members projects nationwide, bicyclists, cross-country skiers and from across the state and has expressed a other outdoor enthusiasts to are expected to attend great deal of interest in experience Arizona. what may be ATA’s the Arizona Trail. Every day work is being done to largest membership Joining Steve complete the Arizona Trail.The goal is meeting. ATA Elkinton for the to complete the trail border-to-border members, agency Recognition Luncheon by the end of year 2000. partners, and trail will be Pam Gluck, Most of the Arizona Trail will be volunteers are Executive Director of located on public lands. An Arizona encouraged to invite American Trails, and Trail Management Guide assists family members and (invited) guests Bob public agencies, the Arizona Trail friends. Searns, Director of the Association,organizations, and The Arizona Trail Grand Canyon citizens in planning, development, management and maintenance of has been gaining Greenway and U.S. the Arizona Trail. national attention as Senator Jon Kyl and one of America's most Steve Elkinton, Program Leader for the National U.S. Congressman Jim Trail Stewards – individuals and Trails System, National Park Service groups – work to ensure the Trail is diverse and scenic long- Kolbe. well-managed and properly distance trails. To put our vision into a The Annual Meeting will debut our new maintained for continued recreational national perspective, ATA has invited Steve 15-minute Arizona Trail video, produced by and educational use. Elkinton to speak at this years Annual the Bureau of Land Management National The Arizona Trail Association was Meeting. Steve Elkinton is the Program Training Center's Media Production Division. created to facilitate the completion of Leader for the National Trails System, Attendees will be treated to this video preview the Arizona Trail in accordance with administered by the National Park Service in before it is aired on PBS (Channel 8 KAET’s the vision of the project’s founder, the Washington, D.C. “Wild Arizona”). guidelines of the Arizona Trail Elkinton has been with the National Park Attend the Annual Meeting and learn the Partners and wishes of recreational Service since 1978 and has directed the continued on page 12 trail users. The Association helps promote the Contents Arizona Trail as a unique and outstanding recreational and Annual Meeting . 1 Reports From The Field . 6 educational resource within the state Message From The Executive Director . 2 Arizona Trail Calendar . 7 of Arizona, and provides New ATA Tool Trailer . 3 Reports From The Field . 7 opportunities for citizens to become Getting To Know You . 3 Learning to Leave No Trace . 8 involved in the development, ATA News Gets a New Editor . 4 Trailcraft–the McLeod . 8 maintenance, use and enjoyment of ATA’s Strategic Planning . 4 ATA’s Newest Board Member . 8 the Arizona Trail. Countdown to National Trails Day 2000! . 4 Walnut Canyon Passage Map . 9 Fund A Foot Campaign . 5 Membership/Merchandise . 11 1 MANY MORE MILES TO BUILD… Message From The Executive Director Our other major source of income, memberships, also needs our attention. We have grown to the 500-member level but need to continue to add new members. Active members and membership growth is the very heart of the future success of the Arizona Trail Association. Please consider participating in our current New Member Campaign. Recruit a new member and you will receive a special collector’s pin that can only be received by those who recruit a new member. Everyone should be able to recruit at least one new member. I gave gift memberships to my four sons Larry Snead at Christmas and will proudly wear my new pin. More details Executive Director Arizona about this program are in this newsletter. Trail Association Be sure to put June 3rd, National Trails Day 2000 on your calendar. All members will want to participate in one of the I am so very pleased to report to you that we have exceeded our many events that ATA will be sponsoring statewide during this 1999 Fund A Foot campaign goal. Our goal was $15,000 and to once in a century celebration. Details to come in this and future date we have received $15,280 from 135 supporters. When you newsletters as plans develop. add that to the six grants we received in 1999, we have And, in closing, hope to see you on February 5th at our increased our available funds for trail construction and Annual Meeting. It is going to be an event that you will not maintenance by nearly $30,000. Thanks to those who made this want to miss. benchmark achievement possible. ANNUAL MEETING & RECOGNITION LUNCHEON Saturday, February 5, 2000 South Mountain Park, Environmental Education Center 10409 South Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 51 Luncheon $12.00 per person 17 Luncheon Program Will Feature National & CENTRAL AVE. Regional Trail Leaders PEAK PARKWAY SQUAW 10 202 Keynote Speakers: 10 Steve Elkinton, Program Director for National Trails System Planning, 143 Washington, D.C. 17 HOHOKAM Pam Gluck, Executive Director, American Trails EXPRESSWAY Denise Meridith, Arizona State Director, Bureau of Land Management 60 And Other National, Regional, and State Leaders including (invited) 10 U.S. Congressmen Jon Kyl and Jim Kolbe CENTRAL AVE. BASELINE ROAD Free drawings for door prizes of outdoor books and merchandise entrance booth 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. SOUTH environmental MOUNTAIN education center Annual Meeting, Board Election and PARK Trail Progress Reports by Regional Stewards 11:15 a.m. - 12 noon 12 noon - 1:45 p.m. Directions: Social Gathering Luncheon Program Go south on Central Avenue in Phoenix, which ends at South Mountain Park 1 mile south of Members and any interested individuals are invited to the meetings and luncheon. Baseline Road. Just after the Park Ranger booth Members may cast one vote per membership in the Board elections. turn left to the newly completed Environmental Volunteers, Agencies and others will be recognized at the luncheon. Education Center. Park in large parking areas Following the Luncheon Program three Special Events will depart at 2:00 north and east of the Center. p.m. for anyone who would like to participate. Call 602-252-4794 to reserve a space for the hike or ride of your choice. See back page for events. 2 …MANY MORE MILES TO BUILD Getting To Know You Chuck Horner and we have noticed the Arizona heat Trail Volunteer doesn’t seem to hold him back. Besides the work events, Chuck has Chuck Horner joined the ATA in July been working with Merle Parmer in 1998, and has since been a dependable Pinal County. They have been volunteer in trail construction and design. traversing the hills of the Tortilla He has attended work events from Oracle Mountains and Black Hills passages of to Blue Ridge to the Utah border. Chuck the Arizona Trail, flagging the route in is married and has two full grown boys. preparation for trail construction. He has been in Arizona since 1966 and Chuck and Merle make it possible for most of his hiking has been backpacking volunteer trail crews to know exactly in the Grand Canyon. Chuck is retired where to construct new trail across this from US West Communications and lives remote desert terrain. Chuck says he at Ventana Lakes in Northwest Peoria. loves working on the Arizona Trail, and Chuck loves to hike, day or backpacking considers it a “chance of a lifetime.” Kelly Tighe guide. Unfortunately for those Co-author of “On the Arizona expecting a revision, there are simply Trail” too many changes taking place, that publishing an updated version of the Lifetime Member of the ATA, Kelly guidebook is not feasible. Tighe’s love for the Arizona outback Kelly continues to work both as a began with the NAU Hiking Club in nurse and writer. Her outdoor stories 1966. She is co-author of the Arizona have appeared in Arizona Highways, Trail’s first guidebook, On the Arizona Trailblazer, GORP.com and several Trail. Kelly first heard of the Arizona newspapers. She has recently Trail in 1988 when Dale Shewalter completed a Hike of The Month feature spoke at an Audubon Society meeting in for Arizona Highways on the Cody Sierra Vista. Five years later Kelly and Trail segment of the Arizona Trail near co-author Susan Moran decided to write Oracle, and is working on another the guidebook. What began on a small feature on the Trail from Sunnyside scale became a five-year passion, as she Canyon to Parker Canyon Lake. juggled riding, hiking, and writing about Kelly lives with her husband Slim, the trail with her job as an RN. their horses and assorted pets, in If you have used the guidebook, please let her know of any Bisbee. They are avid equestrians and hikers who enjoy changes or updates. Kelly would especially like to hear from exploring the beautiful mountains, canyons and deserts of those who have GPS’d sections of the trail in order to obtain Arizona.