Ketchum Ranger District Trail Crew 2021 Annual Report
The Ketchum Ranger District Trail Crew has released their 2021 Annual Report!
The U.S. Forest Service - Ketchum Ranger District (KRD) has more than 400 miles of single-track trail for a wide variety of users, from hikers to mountain bikers, equestrians to dirt bikes. The KRD lacks the appropriate annual funding to adequately finance a trail crew for routine maintenance and new trail projects. Without predictable federal funding, the Forest Service struggles to keep up with the constant workload and backlog of trail maintenance.
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2021 WRTC Trail Use Survey
This summer, WRTC, in partnership with the Ketchum Ranger District Trails Program and the Environmental Resource Center, conducted a summer trail use survey to better understand usership patterns and obtain up-to-date data on our valley’s hiking, biking, and riding trails. The results from this survey, the first conducted since 2012, will be used to help develop future projects and identify opportunities for better education and management of the Wood River Valley’s trail system.
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LifeAfterBikes
Wood River Trails Coalition member Cuyler Swindley has started a great bicycle tire recycling program! It’s hard to come to terms with just throwing old bike tires into the landfill, so Cuyler has created a solution: LifeAfterBikes.
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Forbidden Fruit Volunteer Opportunity
Join us on October 23rd out on the new Forbidden Fruit flow trail. Come help fine-tune the mile of new flow trail. We will be raking berms, compacting soil and getting the trail ready for next season shredding!
WEATHER DEPENDENT!
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Superheroes
Armed with shovels, rakes, loppers and saws, our protagonists enter into the woods. They’ve converged on a common cause- the annual buffing of a beloved local trail. Most have accessed via mountain bikes of all shapes and sizes- each bicycle a caricature of themselves, their Batmobiles.
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Forbidden Fruit Closure
Hear from our Executive Director, Sara Gress, about what’s going on out on Forbidden Fruit and why it’s closed until Spring 2022.
Shoutout to all the donors that helped make the project possible! Thank you!
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Forbidden Fruit Timelapse
Check out this time lapse of Titus Trails working hard on fixing a corner on Forbidden Fruit!
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Forbidden Fruit Update
Watch the video below for an update on Forbidden Fruit. Hear from Justin Blackstead - Ketchum Ranger District Trail Crew Supervisor - about the Adam’s Gulch Adaptive Sports Trail Enhancement Project and why you should respect the Forbidden Fruit trail closure.
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