Trail Maintenance Organizations

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Olympic Peninsula

Quimper Trail Association

"Our workdays are the 1st Sunday of every month from 10 am-2 pm (approx). Worksites will fluctuate between Gibbs Lake and Anderson Lake. Also, we will be building a new trail between the two lakes! Meeting places will be determined and announced before each work party. For questions or comments, PLEASE contact:

Larry Browning 
184 Gibbs Lake Road,
Chimacum, WA 98325		 (360) 732-4973

Howdy QTA Folks! Please join QTA at Anderson Lake this weekend for a double header workparty extravaganza! The two work parties are:

This Saturday, February 5th from 9am-Noon, and this Sunday, February 6th from 10am to 1pm. 

The Saturday workparty is sponsored by Backcountry Horsemen Buckhorn Range Chapter, and the Sunday workparty is sponsored by the Quimper Trails Association.  I’ll be out there both days.  Show up for whatever workparty you’d like (or both!), meet at Anderson Lake by the kiosk, and bring workgloves, water, boots that can get muddy, and a shovel if you have one.

And a special thanks to QTA vice-president Jim Shaver for getting out there and doing some pre-drainage work to make the holes less muddy to work in.  Jim must have been swimming in mud, and thanks to him we won’t need those hip waders after all.

We’ll be building new gravel trail over some wet areas of existing muddy trail.  The work will consist of digging some small trenches, laying in some culvert, putting down landscaping fabric, Geocell, and two layers of different types of gravel.  We’ll be putting three power wheelbarrows and possibly a Kubota tractor to use to transport the materials along the trail and put them to use.  Many hands (and power equipment) should make for light work, and we’d love to have you along.

Hope to see you out on the trail!

Larry

Peninsula Trails Coalition Work Parties

For trail work contact:

Dave Leroux
(360) 683-7180
marthadave@tenforward.com

Board meetings are the 4th Wednesday evening each month. Contact Dave Leroux to confirm location and time.

Olympic Discovery Trail (Clallam County)

Work Parties are second Saturday of each month at 10 am. Contact:

Carrie Kalina
peripateticme@hotmail.com

Olympic Peninsula Backcountry Horsemen

For work party dates and info contact:

Larry Baysinger
(360) 327-3611
baysnger@olypen.com

Clallam County Public Works

For work party info contact Volunteer Coordinator:

Lorrie Campbell
 lcampbell@co.clallam.wa.us
(360) 565-2606

Western Washington

Central Whidbey Council Work Parties

For trail work on Whidbey Island WA, contact:

Hugh Cargill
at 1-360-679-2840
(Boon Rd. Auto Body)

Glacier Trail Club

For more info contact:

PNTA
360-854-9415

Skagit and Whatcom Counties

 

Show me the way to
the work parties!

Want to do some trail work? No matter where you work, wear long pants, have work gloves, have plenty of fluids to drink, and bring a lunch. Each person working will have to sign a liability release form. Parents or guardians of those under 18 must sign for the minor.

For information call 360-424-0407 anytime up until 8 a.m. the morning of the work party. Tools will be provided--hazel hoes, loppers, McLeods, Pulaskis, chain saws, brush cutters. You may bring your own tools if you wish.

If you can only work until noon, please call ahead to see if the work site will be conducive to your leaving

Skagit/Whatcom M.O. on Blanchard Mountain. From left, Larry Lazzari, Keith Magee, and Duane Melcher. Photo by Joan Melcher

early. Sometimes we will be working behind locked gates or far up logging roads and it would not be convenient for people to leave early.

Meeting place is the Cook Road Park-n-Ride, exit 232 from I-5 north of Burlington. Exit the freeway, turn right and then immediately turn right onto Old Highway 99. We meet across the street from the 76 gas station. Meeting time is 8:15 a.m.

GENERAL TRAIL WORK
2008 Skagit Trail work schedule for April through October
Trail work will be done on the FIRST and THIRD Saturday of each month

April 5 and 19
May 3 and 17
June 7 (National Trails Day) and 21
July 5 and 19
August 2 and 16
September 6 and 20
October 4 and 18

PNTA/Skagit Audubon Trail Work

For several years now members of the Skagit Audubon Hiking group and PNTA volunteers have joined forces to help with trail maintenance and bridge building in the Okanogan National Forest under the direction of forester Dan Rogers. Projects are in the Ruby, Canyon, and Granite Creek areas between mileposts 138 and 151 on WA State Route 20.

Meeting times are always 7 a.m. at the Sedro-Woolley WA Thrifty Foods parking lot. Contact 360-424-0407 for information. Occasionally the dates may be changed, so call before showing up at the parking lot.

Eastern Washington

Inland Empire Backcountry Horsemen

The three back country Horseman groups have said they would do trail work on Pacific Northwest Trail from time to time. For more information contact either of the following.

Pacific Northwest Trail group work parties, contact

Sam Holden
(509) 455-9176

Inland Empire Backcountry Horsemen, contact:

Ken Elliott
(509) 467-3725

Oroville Trail Club

For more information contact:

Rocky DeVon
(509) 476-3972

Idaho

Priest River Backcountry Horsemen

For information contact:

Bob Lynch
(208) 448-4848

North Idaho Backcountry Horsemen

Marcie Ott
(208) 265-5779

Montana

For information contact:

Yaak Trail Club
36200 South Fork Road
Troy, MT 59935
no phone