Trail Stewardship
Seasonal crews repair tread, clear deadfall, and rebuild the small rock-and-timber work that keeps a wilderness path from washing into the meadow below.
Stewards of the Mokelumne Wilderness
A future for these granite peaks, glacial lakes, and high meadows begins with the people who walk and protect them.
Help us care for the trails, the meadows, and the people who love them.
We are an all-volunteer organization supporting the Mokelumne Wilderness and Carson Pass — restoring trails, sharing knowledge, and helping visitors meet the wild on its own terms.
Become a Volunteer
Bringing people back to the wild since 1964
From the granite spine of the Sierra Nevada to the headwaters of the Mokelumne, our work has always begun the same way — with a small group of neighbors, packs on their backs, walking the country and listening to what it needs.
Today the work looks different in the details — heavier tools, longer maps, more partners — but the shape is the same. Show up, learn the place, leave it better than you found it.
Our StoryThree quiet ways we look after this place
Wilderness Education
Engage with the public for Leave No Trace principals, map and compass help, weather reading, water purification, trail etiquette, and a host of other subjects -- passing on knowledge from lessons learned by those who share a love of the outdoors.
Place-Based Knowledge
Trip planning notes, trailhead conditions, and quiet guidance for the Carson Pass area and Mokelumne Wilderness backcountry -- no apps, no algorithms, just personal human notes.
120+
Miles of trail under our care
1,400
Volunteer hours each season
9
Trailheads stewarded across Carson Pass
50+
Years of grassroots wilderness work
The wild is kept by hands that know it.
Join a work weekend, sign up for a clinic, or send a note. There is no membership card and no minimum experience — just a willingness to learn the country and care for it.
