Achievements of Gold Country Trails  Council  As the Gold Country Trails Council prepares for the beginning of a new year (having banked record proceeds from the annual fundraiser and raised membership dues for the first time in club history), we want to fully communicate the financial  position of the club.  All funds raised through dues, donations, and fundraisers are utilized to support the internal functions of the group and to finance expenditures for materials that are used  in the Tahoe National Forest to build and maintain camps as well as non-motorized trails.  We have always  operated in the black and plan to continue to do so.  We are understandably proud of the  accomplishments of the club and want to list some of them here: Investments in the Tahoe National Forest (TNF): 1. Gravel to complete surface  on the access road to Washington Overlook Trailhead parking area: $800.  TNF furnished the truck to haul and spread  the rock. 2. Tool Investment for Pioneer Trail/side trails: 12 McClouds/4 Pulaski’s:  $500 3.  Startup costs to build Little Lazier Meadows Horse Camp, i.e. site drafts, D-8 bulldozer, gravel/hauling, 4-space corral, hitching posts.  TNF put in well, toilets, fire rings, tables.  GCTC built access trail to Pacific Crest  Trail Total costs estimated at $8,000. 4.  Renovation costs to  remodel Skillman Campground into equestrian group camp including $5,800 for  materials to build 8 pipe corrals, 8 horse fence corrals, 1 water trough, PVC pipe, hitching posts, rental of ditch witch to lay pipe. 5.  Donation of thousands of tractor hours over 20 years, which includes transportation costs and tractor  fuel. 6.  Original maps of Hwy. 20 Trail System develop./printed by GCTC.  Est. costs $1,000. 7.  Original trail markers,  posts, 50 lbs. aluminum nails paid by GCTC.  Estimated costs $1,500. 8. Development of a Trail  Manners booklet, distributed with maps to new members. 9. Thousands of volunteer  hours spent working in TNF building, maintaining campgrounds, trails, and most notably, completion over 20 years of Pioneer Trail from Nevada City to Grouse  Ridge Area.  On May 15, 2004, the club logged 200 volunteers hours on spring clean-up of Skillman Camp and brushing connecting trails.