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Methow Trails
Trail Karma
Program
Wow – what a year of working with volunteers to
make great things happen on our Methow Trails!
The best part of working at Methow Trails is the
opportunity to work with passionate trail advo-
cates to accomplish noticeable improvements that
will make our trails a better place to recreate in
the very near future. We have done so much
together.
Here’s a quick recap of our summer 2016
projects:
We worked on the Suspension Bridge, we built
three other bridges, and we demolished four old
ones.
We worked on the Patterson Mountain Trail and
twice on the Patterson Lake Trail. We cut en-
croaching trees and brush on Cedar Creek Loop,
on Cougar Bait, and twice on Power’s Plunge. We
placed new trail signposts around the Freestone
Inn and mediated the water damage on Black
Bear.
We brushed along the Community Trail near the
Suspension Bridge and did tread work along the
Cutthroat Trail, with an emphasis on improving
drainage. Then, for our most-recent project, we all
spent a morning maintaining and beautifying our
trail tools in preparation for the season of hard
use.
Thanks to all who helped. If you are a trail ad-
vocate who would like to join us on these work
parties, we would love to have you. We hold them
every third Thursday – and on random days in be-
tween. The best way to find out about these work
days is to get on our notification list by emailing
jon@methowtrails.org.We also post these parties
on our Methow Trails Facebook page and on the
Methow Trails Blog.
What’s up for next year? More of the same, for
sure, but there will be some variety, too. We’ll
be cutting and splitting wood that we will do-
nate as firewood to needy households in the val-
ley. There’s the great chipping experiment. There
are more encroaching trees that need to go, more
bridges to build, more posts to place, a portable
trail structure to build, and a bike-terrain park to
install. You’re going to want to be part of it! Get on
the list and keep the third Thursday open if you
are able.
We look forward to working with you on Methow
Trails in the upcoming year.
Jon Albright – Trails Manager