Gaining ground is the name of the game when it comes to servicing the backlog of needed maintenance on area trails. Volunteers Chris Keenan, Mike Keenan, and Laurie Leman made some headway recently by working on damaged facilities at the Oregon Gulch Trailhead. On Thursday, August 23rd they repaired the trailhead’s horse hitch-rack and a…

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Placer Maintenance The Ketchum Ranger District has wrapped up two weeks of work on the Placer Creek Trail 141. The KRD Trail Crew, and an eleven-person Idaho Conservation Corp youth crew, performed heavy maintenance on the trail, and it needed it. Maintenance had not been performed on the trail, other than the cutting out of…

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While much of the Ketchum Ranger District’s recreation staff has been pulled away to work on the Sharps Fire, other KRD Trail Crew members have stayed back to manage ongoing and planned-for maintenance projects. On Sunday they packed in an Idaho Youth Corps crew’s gear and tools for a project on Placer Creek Trail #141.…

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