{"id":47,"date":"2024-05-18T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T18:13:08","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaVESTA is a non-profit trail association (<a href=\"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/501-3c-recognition-letter\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"377\">501.3c registered<\/a>) in Baja California Sur, Mexico dedicated to the trails in La Ventana and El Sargento.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaVESTA was created in early 2023 for the purpose of coordinating efforts to maintain existing trails, create new ones, and most importantly to preserve  access for years to come. LaVESTA&#8217;s mission is to protect these trails for everyone in the community and encourage all to be involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaVESTA is run by volunteers. Trail work is done by volunteers and supported by a small local crew of trail workers sponsored 100% by donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaVESTA is headed by a board of directors, composed of Mexican&#8217;s, American&#8217;s and Canadian&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ermanno Strepparola &#8211; President<br>Peter Aschwanden <br>Mary Brookman <br>Brandon Huber <br>MaryAnn Leyen <br>Erik Rubie\/Richard Spenard &#8211; North Trails Maintenance<br>Greg Clarance\/Jamie Napier\/Tom Turner &#8211; South Trail Leads<br>Fernanda Rabanal&nbsp;<br>Hiram Gastelum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This list doesn&#8217;t include the tireless work of MANY others in our community, some of which also often come to our meetings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaVESTA values transparency and collaboration. You can reach LaVESTA at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:LaVESTA.bcs@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LaVESTA.bcs@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a> or for finance\/donation questions <strong><a href=\"mailto:lavestafinance@gmail.com\">lavestafinance@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/board-meeting-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/board-meeting-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/board-meeting-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/board-meeting-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/board-meeting-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/board-meeting-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typical board meeting from 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaVESTA is a non-profit trail association (501.3c registered) in Baja California Sur, Mexico dedicated to the trails in La Ventana and El Sargento.\u00a0 LaVESTA was created in early 2023 for the purpose of coordinating efforts to maintain existing trails, create new ones, and most importantly to preserve access for years to come. LaVESTA&#8217;s mission is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}