Many areas burned hot in the 2103 Beaver Creek Fire. Since then, the Ketchum Ranger District and its partners have been working hard to rebuild the facilities lost during the fire. Last year saw a huge push from the KRD Trail Crew on the reconstruction of the Deer Creek trails. The Kinsey Creek Trail 319…

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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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On Thurday, July 26, intrepid volunteers converged on the Barr Gulch Trail #168. Eleven workers cut back plants that were choking the travel way, installed drains, repaired ruts, and built a re-route around a section that had slid into the creek. The trail is about 15 miles west of Ketchum on Warm Springs Road. It…

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Trail Volunteers are needed to help brush back plants that are encroaching on the Pork Chop Section of the Adams Rib Trail #142 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. meeting at the Adams Gulch Trailhead. Additional work will include cleaning out and improving existing drains along the trail. Tools and instruction provided, with tools stationed in…

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Trail Report for Thursday, June 21, 2018: Starting on Friday the Sun Valley Company will start spinning lifts and taking people up Baldy for adventures. Here is a link to some info about the happenings: Opening Day For Summer Operations on Bald Mountain The Castle Rock Trail #140 was recently cut out by local motorcyclist…

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On Tuesday, June 12, the Ketchum Ranger District Trail crew repaired the footbridge that was washed out along the Fox Creek Trail. That evening trail volunteers with the BCRD Adopt-A-Trail program showed up to help finish the project. Last year a huge spring run-off left the footbridge in a position that no longer spanned Fox…

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  On Thursday, volunteers helped the Forest Service with a trail maintenance project in Parker Gulch. The trail had become quite choked with sagebrush and bitterbrush plants. Walking or riding on the trail was a scratchy experience. Fifteen people got a start on this big project, working their way up for about 1 mile from…

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  The trails in Greenhorn have seen some maintenance in May. Motorcyclist volunteers have been busy cutting out trees and the Ketchum Ranger District Trail Crew has been tackling a number of projects in the drainage. They have been cleaning drains, repairing sections of trails that washed out, and they recently built a useful reroute…

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