This was a joint project with the Sierra Club Santa Monica Mountains Task Force and students from USC. We met at the Malibu Springs trailhead, had a safety talk and distributed the tools before proceeding up the trail. This trail gets little use and was overgrown with tall grasses and brush. Two brush cutters led the way, with crews behind them raking the cuttings and also lopping any branches that either hung low on the trail or were growing onto the trail. This is a hiker/equestrian trail, and care was taken to cut low hanging branches in order to get the 10 clearance required for equestrians. Before the students arrived, Jerry Mitcham led a couple of people to cut and treat several Spanish broom plants. Trails Council and USC volunteers worked on the lower part of the trail, covering 0.6 miles. Sierra Club Task Force began their work 1.9 miles up the trail and covered 0.2 miles. At 1:30 we stopped cutting and finished cleaning up the trail At 2:30 everyone departed. Number of volunteers: Trails Council: 9 USC: 9 Sierra Club: 7 Number of volunteer hours: 102 including the Sierra Club: 150 Feet of trail: TC/USC: 3,168; SC: 1056 Total: 4224