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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