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Please join us at the annual Cobb Mountain Blackberry Cobbler Festival this coming Saturday August 24 at the Belmont Pines Golf Club in Cobb, formerly Mountain Meadow, from 11:00 am until 5:00 pm. The highlight is a blackberry cobbler competition as well as local arts and crafts, great food and beverages, a kids play area and more. Friends of Boggs Mountain will have a booth selling T-shirts, limited edition 75th anniversary Boggs Mountain Maps and raffle tickets for a $100 REI gift card and multiple gift cards for Hardester’s Market. All proceeds go to restoring the trails in Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest.

We will be located at booth number 86 so please come by to say hi!

More information can be found here.

It has recently been reported that unauthorized trail construction is taking place in the forest. Most recently a new trail alignment was discovered off of Thinner trail near the fork with Gail’s Trail. Please understand that all trail construction must be approved by Cal Fire. FOBM goes through a painstaking process of professional design and development prior to a shovel hitting the ground taking into consideration grade, soils, water runoff and erosion. Most importantly we want to build trails that are fun to hike or ride. Trails randomly constructed actually delay our goal of restoring the trails since we must deconstruct unapproved trails requiring volunteer hours and cost. 

We all want to expedite trail construction with the goal of fully restoring all the trails destroyed in the Valley Fire. If you want to help us please join one of our volunteer trail days. Trail days are posted in advance on our website and Facebook page. Better yet, become a member and receive an email invitation for all trail work and other activities. A membership application can be found here.

July 20, 2024

Work has begun on Nate’s Cutoff trail

Eagle Scout candidate Ivo Nuti has chosen the rebuilding of Nate’s Cutoff trail as his Eagle Project. The Eagle Scout project is a major service project required to achieve the Eagle Scout rank and must benefit the community or a religious organization. Ivo has worked with FOBM on several trail work days in preparation for the start and on Saturday July 20 the work began. Nate’s Cutoff is a trail connecting Gail’s trail to Boggs Peak trail enabling users to avoid having to hike on road 540 between the two trails. This will be one more trail restored at Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest. Many thanks to Ivo and FOBM for this important work!

Friends of Boggs Mountain this year participated in Middletown High School’s “Reach a
Dream” scholarship program. The program is community funded and was founded to
provide scholarships for graduating Middletown High School seniors who are moving on
to higher education, trade schools or entering the Armed Forces. Each applicant goes
through a rigorous application and interview process. The Friends of Boggs Mountain
scholarship was established to provide financial assistant to students aspiring to enter
careers in the outdoors. The awards ceremony was held on May 30, 2024 at
Middletown High School. In its inaugural year The Friends of Boggs Mountain
scholarship was proudly awarded to three deserving students: Isabella Barriga, Jacob
Brown and Dominick Clark. These students all excelled academically, were active in
athletics, school activities, and provided hundreds of hours of service to their
community. Congratulations to these outstanding students on a job well done.

Nearly 100 people gathered at Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest on Saturday to celebrate the 75^th anniversary of BMDSF. The event sponsored by Friends of Boggs Mountain was a treat for everyone including live music, a delicious lunch, and raffle. Norm Benson, the Forest Manager from 2000 – 2004 and one of the founders of Friends of Boggs Mountain, spoke on the history of Boggs Mountain and current goals for the Forest. The highlight of the event was the presentation of a $15,000 dollar check from Calpine Corp. to FOBM to be used for reconstruction of hiking trails destroyed by the Valley Fire. Thank you to all who made it happen and to all who participated!