Volcan Mountain Foundation

This event is for VMF's Sustaining Friends of Volcan Mountain. Click here to learn more and become a Sustaining Friend!

If you are already a Sustaining Friend, click here to register for the event by Monday, October 10th.

If you have questions, or would like us to assist you with registering, please phone us: 760-765-2300

The Volcan Mountain Foundation's annual Sustaining Friends Fall Visioning Day is Sunday, October 16th, 2016. This year, we'll be gathering at Spencer Valley School in nearby Wynola.

This year, we're excited to announce that USGS badger researchers, Cheryl Brehme and Devin Adsit-Morris, will presenting their research work, including recently capturing long-awaited images of badgers, and visually confirming their presence atop Volcan Mountain. Bill Carter of VMF's Wildlife Imaging Team will also share their research as informed by data collected through a network of remote camera traps.

We hope that you will be able to join us from 9:30am-1:00pm at Spencer Valley School in Wynola (see directions below). It is an important opportunity for Sustaining Friends members to help shape the future goals and activities of the Volcan Mountain Foundation.

Once again a delicious catered lunch will be provided courtesy of Sustaining Friends member Michel Malecot and The French Gourmet. In addition to the exciting new research presentations, Sustaining Friends will share in a visioning session to solicit ideas and suggestions that will be helpful when the VMF Board of Directors meets for their annual retreat in November.

Following lunch Sustaining Friends are invited to join us for an optional hike on Sky Island Trail. The approximately 1 1/4 mile round trip hike leads to a spectacular viewpoint looking out across the Santa Ysabel Valley, the San Diego and San Dieguito River watersheds, and to the coast. Though the view scope you can spot a variety of peaks from inland San Diego and down across into Mexico.

Date: Sunday, October 16th, 2016

Time: 9:30am-1:00pm, followed by optional Sky Island Trail hike (off mountain by approximately 3pm)

Location: Spencer Valley School in Wynola; 4414 Highway 78, Santa Ysabel, CA 92070

Directions: Google map link to Spencer Valley School Spencer Valley School is located 3 miles east of the town of Santa Ysabel and 3.5 miles west of the Julian town site on Highway 78.