Tsalteshi open house

Tsalteshi open house

Events, Maintenance/grooming, TTA Board of Directors
Tsalteshi Trails Association has an open house for its new maintenance building from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 12 behind the pool entrance at Skyview Middle School. It's free and open to the public, with food, music, tours of the building and information about what's new with Tsalteshi Trails. For more information, email info@tsalteshi.org or call 907-394-6397.
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New weather station

New weather station

Maintenance/grooming
Thanks to grant support from the Rasmuson Foundation, Tsalteshi now has weather reports from the trails! Scroll to the bottom of www.tsalteshi.org and you'll see real-time conditions from the Skyview Trailhead. As we move into winter, we'll use these readings for the temperature cutoff for our youth ski program. No more calling the time and temperature number! No more trying to translate weather readings from the airport! Find out exactly what's happening on the trails.
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Help stop bike trails modifications

Help stop bike trails modifications

Maintenance/grooming, Safety
We need your help! We’re seeing a steep increase in unauthorized trail modifications lately — people putting in shortcuts, jumps and extra features — primarily off our singletrack trails. We get that our trails might seem a little bland for riders looking for a spicier experience. But this is not the way to get more challenging features at Tsalteshi. All trail construction has to go through a design process that includes safety, layout with other trails, sustainability (erosion control and ongoing maintenance) and approval by our board, insurance underwriters and our landlord, the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Renegade trail mods have been a problem throughout the history of the trails but it’s getting really out of hand lately — people doing dirt work, using saws, building structures, etc. We remove them…
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Survey says…

Survey says…

Documents, Events, General, Maintenance/grooming, Tsalteshi Ski Trails, TTA Board of Directors
TTA survey spring 2023 Thank you to everyone who completed our trail user survey this spring. You gave our Board of Directors a lot to discuss. The survey provides important information about our users, what you value about the trails, areas we could do better and what you’d like to see in the years ahead. We are factoring your responses into our current operations, programming, priorities and areas of growth in the future. In reviewing survey results, several themes emerged: Projects  We’re with you — we would love to do ALL THE THINGS!!! As a nonprofit organization, Tsalteshi must seek grants and raise our own funds for any developments we pursue. And we have to balance long-term sustainability with desired improvements. The last thing we want is to spend too…
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Maintenance building

Maintenance building

Maintenance/grooming
What’s going on above the tennis courts?!? Tsalteshi is breaking ground on a long-time dream come true — a maintenance building that can hold all our equipment! If you’ve ever seen the groomers have to precision park the snowmachines to fit them in the existing shed or watched them move two just to get to one in the middle, you know why this is so needed. Thanks to a Recreational Trails Program grant through Alaska State Parks and local support, we’re constructing a 36-by-60-foot building that will provide secure, weatherized storage for all our machinery. No more having to leave equipment outside! No more having to tow off machines for minor repairs! No more having to juggle equipment between a shed, a Connex and a lean-to! The project will include…
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