Work continues on area trails through the adopt-a-trail program. Volunteers with the Wood River Bicycle Coalition (WRBC) were out last week working on their adopted trail, Forbidden Fruit Trail #159. This mountain bike trail is used for downhill travel only, and it includes several larger bermed-turns and lots of good sized jumps and landing zones. Technical…

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The BLM Shoshone Field Office was awarded a Great Basin Institute grant to bring in a five-person Nevada Conservation Corps (NCC) trail crew to perform maintenance on the Hidden Valley Trail. BLM Rec. Planner John Kurtz and I have been working with the crew. The Hidden Valley Trail was spared from the recent fires that passed through…

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  Nello Busdon had some concerns about the condition of the Chocolate Gulch Trail. In particular, he saw that the backside section, or southwest end of the trail was in poor shape. There, the trail had not seen much maintenance in the last several years, so parts of the route were screaming for attention. After…

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