Community School Helps out on the Salmon-Challis!

Over the week of September 22-26, The Community School based in Ketchum brought 9 folks out to work on a trail up over Trail Creek Summit.

Their 11th grade does a week long backpacking and service project each fall, and we had one of those groups come out to work the Salmon-Challis.

With their help we addressed trail braiding through a meadow, defined the route on the sidehill and rehabbed the other routes through the meadow. In this section we also worked on re-capping and re digging the lead off ditches.

The group finished up their week by widening and re-grading some sections of trail on some steep side slope on the first mile of the trail.

The week felt like the start of fall, frosty morning, searching for the sunny spots to warm up. Once the tools started swinging the layers came off. 

We were working in some rocky hillside and although our tools looked a little worse for the wear, this group still seemed eager to get after it even on day 4 and 5 of their trip.

We don't often get to have a group come out to work for days in a row so this gave us a great opportunity to work on a bigger project and in a location that it is harder for us to get to for an evening or short morning Volunteer Event. 

We couldn't have tackled this project without this group coming and camping out at the project, glad they could come out and work on this trail in their "backyard".

They not only did this service project but also took the time to reflect on what that really means for our trail, and learned what it really takes to keep our trails in such good shape. Something they hadn't really understood until they got to be a part of that the work to maintain them .