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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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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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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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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