We had a beautiful night for our first Adopt-A-Trail Night of the season, which took place on Tuesday, May 8th. Our crew was made up of thirteen volunteers, 2 Sawtooth National Forest, Ketchum Ranger District Recreation Staff members, and myself. We did maintenance on a section of Harper’s Trail, where the trail is in…

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Hi all, Chris Leman here. I’m back for another season as the BCRD Wood River Valley Trail Coordinator. I’m excited to be back at work on the trails, and oh man, things sure are heating up out there! Land managers are busy monitoring conditions, signing the trails, and opening them as they dry. And eager…

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Hi All, Chris Leman here. I have a few items to share in this season’s last installment of the BCRD Trails Blog. This is my last trail report for 2017, as this is my final week of seasonal employment as the BCRD Wood River Valley Trail Coordinator. I’m looking forward to returning to the position…

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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…

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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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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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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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