Arizona Trail a contender for $50,000 grant...again!

imported
#1

Just one click, once a day, can earn the Arizona Trail $50K!
Details at www.aztrail.org or

www.blazethetrail.com/greatoutdoors/

The Arizona Trail has again been selected to compete for the Redwood Creek Greater Outdoors Project grant. Yes, Arizona Trail supporters tried very hard last year but our project came in second. Happily, contest rules have changed, but it still comes down to the project with the most votes earns top honors and the $50K.

Do you know that:

– As one of nine finalists in the 2010 Redwood Creek Greater Outdoors Project, the ATA is automatically awarded a grant of $10,000

– The top vote-getting finalist will receive $50,000

– This year’s voting is ONLINE only (i.e. no more texting)

– The contest period is longer, April 1, 2010 to August 31, 2010. Voting can be done daily.

Your daily ONLINE vote will help to win $50,000 – please vote every day.

How To Vote Every Day – From April 1, 2010 through midnight on August 31, 2010, you can vote ONLINE every day at www.BlazeTheTrail.com/GreatOutdoors/   for the Arizona Trail project (and please ask your friends to vote, too). 

Twitterers: A pop-up appears after you vote that will take you to Twitter if you click it. Be sure to change “your favorite project” to “the Arizona Trail” in your tweet!

The Project – If the ATA wins the $50,000, the funds would help build an 11-mile reroute in the Sonoran Desert “Black Hills” passage plus help with needed trailheads and kiosks in Pima and Pinal Counties.  Those Arizona Trail enhancements would be a tremendous amenity for hikers, equestrians, mountain bicyclists and all Arizona trail users.

Sirena

#2

What? Potentially no more pipeline roadwalk in the Black Hills if the AZT wins? I’m so torn!

Actually, the GET would end up losing its excellent excuse for Putnam and lower Aravaipa wash trudging, ie per the guide, “where the two trails split, the AZT continues south likewise as a non-singletrack affair for quite a few miles.”

Dang it all.

blisterfree

#3

The Arizona Trail has lost it’s lead, but it’s not too late to turn things around! Please go to

www.BlazeTheTrail.com/GreatOutdoors/

and vote once a day- voting goes through the end of August.

Sirena

#4

Yay!!! The Arizona Trail won!! Thanks to all of you for your votes!! Trailwork will begin in November on the reroute of the trail off of the pipeline road and onto singletrack.

Sirena