Greetings, Here are some trail updates for Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017: High School Racing at Galena Lodge – Friday and Saturday, Sept. 15 & 16 This weekend Galena Lodge is hosting the Galena Gallop mountain bike race. Its the Idaho Interscholastic League‘s third race of the 2017 Idaho High School mountain bike race series. The…
Author: Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator
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Trail Update Friday, Sept 8 2017
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
Here are a few trail updates: Few Comments Being Made Regarding Travel Planning The BLM Shoshone Field Office is conducting travel planning in the Wood River Valley, and they have asked for public comments about the options on the table. The result of the travel planning process will be a trail and road access/development…
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Trail Project Progress Aug. 23, 2017
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
Area land managers are making progress on trail construction and trail maintenance projects around the valley. Lift-served mountain biking is expanding this summer with two new trails on Bald Mountain. The trails will connect the existing Lupine and Saddle Up trails above the Roundhouse Gondola to the base of River Run. Once the trails are…
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Trail Update Friday, Aug 18
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
Upper Oregon Maintenance and +/-800-foot Reroute The Ketchum Ranger District (KRD) is leading an Idaho Conservation Corp (ICC) youth crew on a heavy-maintenance detail on the upper half of the Oregon Gulch Trail. They are cleaning out and improving existing drains and installing new drains. In their work they are being careful to protect the…
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Trail Updates Friday, Aug. 11 2017
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
Here are some trail updates from yours truly, Chris Leman, BCRD Wood River Valley Trail Coordinator, on Friday, August 11: Local volunteers have been hard at it; cutting out trees and performing other maintenance on area trails. Last weekend two groups of motorcyclist vols. made another pass along a number of area trails. They cutout Greenhorn…
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BLM Travel Planning Restarted
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
The BLM has restarted its travel planning process for the Wood River Valley. The BLM began this round of travel planning in 2005, but for various reasons the effort was put on hold in 2010. A few years ago, the BLM Shoshone Field Office began working on the travel planning effort again, and they unveiled…
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Oregon-Fox Connector Reroute
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
The Ketchum Ranger District (KRD) is rerouting a section of the Oregon-Fox Connector Trail #311. The area of the reroute is on the southeast side of the trail, in a spot where the trail goes straight up the bottom of the drainage. This section can not be drained, so water flows right down the trail causing…
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Fox Creek Re-route
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
Flooding took out several footbridges along the Fox Creek Trail this spring, and a reroute was built on Saturday to avoid two of the problematic crossings. Originally, consideration was given to replacing the bridges, to help preserve the stream-side character of the impacted section of trail. But the original trail alignment was too low and…
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Brushing-back Greenhorn
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
Last winter’s snows crushed trees and left the trails in the valley crisscrossed with timber. Some of that wood is big, and requires chainsaws to remove, but a lot of the trees are little and green. Snow-loads often bend such saplings into trail travel-ways. Removing these smaller trees requires lighter tools, but it still takes quite…
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Oregon Gulch and Greenhorn Maintenance
by Chris Leman, B.C.R.D. Wood R. Valley Tr. Coordinator •
Volunteers with Far Back Outdoors performed maintenance on their adopted trail, Oregon Gulch Trail, on Sunday, June 11. Far Back Outdoors is a group of friends who are avid hunters and outdoors-people. They enjoy the back country and are passionate about its responsible use. Last year they heard about our local adopt-a-trail program and decided…