Check out our projects from past years

Join us for a weekend of camping and trailwork in the beautiful redwoods of San Mateo County. We will be working on rehabilitating the Big Trees Trail and building another staircase!

V-O-Cal volunteers are, along with key partners, the magic ingredient that has made it possible for the East Bay Hills Trails Benefit to raise over $470,000 over the past 23 years to support trail building and volunteer trail work programs like V-O-Cal, the Bay Area Ridge Trail and more. We are hoping that you will be able to join us for a single shift or more to help make the 2025 East Bay Hills Trails Benefit Ride and Hike the best ever! Please use the sign up button to sign up now! As usual, if you want to sign up for consecutive days, you can camp with us and your meals will be included. Come for 2 days or more, and you probably will be able to join one of the hikes!

This project combines trail work with the chance to explore the rich cultural and natural history of China Camp State Park, a scenic gem along the shores of San Pablo Bay. Once home to a thriving Chinese shrimp-fishing village in the 1880s, China Camp housed nearly 500 Cantonese immigrants. Today, the site is preserved and maintained entirely by volunteers, thanks to the efforts of Friends of China Camp (FOCC), who saved it from closure. In addition to its cultural significance, China Camp is rich in natural beauty, with inter-tidal salt marshes, meadows, and oak woodlands. It’s home to a variety of wildlife including deer, foxes, coyotes, and birds – as well as endangered species like the California clapper rail and the salt marsh harvest mouse.

We're headed to the beautiful Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve to improve the Eagle View Trail. The work will involve widening the tread, improving the existing switchback, and dealing with some substandard retaining structures.

The first V-O-Cal project of 2025 will be at Stevens Creek County Park near Cupertino. This is a beautiful park in Santa Clara County that runs along the Stevens Creek reservoir. We will be working on a much-needed rehabilitation of the Tony Look / Stevens Creek trail. We’ll be working on slide areas, resolving some much needed slippery sections, fixing fences and addressing water issues. The work should be fun and rewarding! A park guide is linked below.

It's time, yet again, to prepare for the 2025 VOCal Season! Woop woop! If you've ever asked yourself "how many tools DOES VOCal have?", "how do I repair this dang tool?", "what SHOULD go in all those green kitchen boxes, anyway?" etc - now is the time to come down and see for yourself! It takes a fair amount of effort to make sure that all those tools are in good shape to last through the project season, and the annual O'Tool Day is all about sharpening, cleaning, and repairing everything we need for a successful season. Please join us for our 2025 O'Tool Day to enjoy some St Patty's Day goodies while we do all we can to get ready for the upcoming season.

Party With V-O-Cal! Join your V-O-Cal friends for a get together to celebrate getting started with a brand new project season.

Join us for a weekend of camping and trailwork in the beautiful redwoods of San Mateo County. Part of this project will be to de-construct a damaged staircase on the Homestead Trail (damaged in the 2020 fires and subsequent winter storms) and build an entirely new set of steps. The other part of the project will be to repair and redefine the Pomponio Canyon, Mt. Ellen Summit and Trillium Nature trails.

V-O-Cal volunteers are, with some others, the magic ingredient that makes it possible each year for the East Bay Hills Trails Benefit to raise sizable funds for both V-O-Cal and the Ridge Trail, and more. Because volunteers like you have helped provide a quality experience for our riders and hikers, we have been able to raise over $440,000 over the past 22 years to support trail building and volunteer trail work programs like V-O-Cal. We are hoping that you will be able to join us for a single shift or more to help make the 2024 East Bay Hills Trails Benefit Ride and Hike the best ever! Please click on the link below to sign up now —and help Morris keep his sanity intact knowing that once again you all will come through! As usual, if you want to sign up for several days, you can camp with us and your meals will be included. Come for than 2 days or more, and you probably will be able to join one of the hikes!