Your are a trail ambassador anytime you are hiking on national forest or wilderness trails. Members should wear their Volunteer GCWG Shirt and, if you have one, your forest service volunteer Badge.

In an effort to be more supportive of hikers, being an ambassador is encouraged on weekends and holidays when the hiker numbers are highest. It offers, to weekend hikers the availability of a knowledgeable, helpful trail volunteer. Bring along your trail book to answer any questions.
Always hike with a friend.

Being a trail ambassador is one of the easiest ways to meet your volunteer hours quota.

Ambassador Duties include:

• Being a cheerful presence on the trail
• Answering questions about the trails,
• Sharing information about regulations, since many times that is all that is needed. Examples are: The Indian Peak's Wilderness leash law or camping 100 ft. from water (40 good strides equals Approximately 100 ft). Remember we are not law enforcement.
• Doing trail assessment, and reporting back on the trail conditions.
  To report trail conditions you will need to use the Headwaters trail alliance volunteer reporting form.
  Goto headwaterstrails.org/trail-volunteer-forms
  • Fill in your name and personal info.
  • Fill date and trail info.
  • Check Trail Assestment.
  • For Hours Worked on Trail, put the Number of hours that you hiked.
  • For Type of Maintenance, select Other and enter Trail Ambassador
  • For Number of Trees and Drains cleared enter 0.
  • Next is the Trail Assessment, Fill out any thing that needs work.
  • You can enter no work needed, if nothing was found.
  • Submit the Report.
• Report shortages of sign in sheets in the trailhead boxes to the person responsible for that box. Go to Registration Boxes to find the person(s) responsible.

Trail Assessment Hikes are being added this year, To see a list of these hikes and to signup for them go to assessment hikes. Below is a list trails that GCWG supports for trail assessment along with the trailhead and registration box.

Click here to order your volunteer badge

Each individual needs to record their time for trail hosting. Hours are sent to the member tallying our volunteer hours for the Forest Service. The Forest Service uses these hours are used in grant applications and reports. Hours for being a trail ambassador are from portal to portal. (when you leave and return to your house or "portal").

Trailhead	Trail
Kinney Creek	Kinney Creek
	Keyser Ridge
Vasquez	Vasquez Creek
	Vasquez Pass (GCWG Adopted Trail)
Baker Trail	Parika Lake
	Parika Peak
	Baker Gulch
	Baker Pass
Junco Lake	Columbine Lake (GCWG Adopted Trail)
	Caribou Pass
	Lake Dorthory
	Mount Neva
	High Lonesome (CDT)
Roaring Fork	Watanga Lake
	Mount Irving Hale
	Knight Ridge (CDT)
	Stone and Upper Lakes
	East Shore Trail (CDT)
Bowen Trail	Blue Lake
	Bowen Gulch (CDT)
	Baker Gulch)
	Bowen Gulch Connector (CDT)
Lake Evelyn	Lake Evelyn
	Byers Peak
	Horseshoe Lake
	Bills Peak
	Bottle Pass
	B & B
	Bottle Peak
	Ptarmigan Peak
St. Louis	St. louis Lake
	St. Louis Divide
	St. Louis Pass
	St. Louis Lake Connector
Monarch Lake	Cascade Creek
	Arapaho Pass (CDT)
	Arapaho Pass Spur Trail
	Buchanan Pass
	Gourd Lake