MVTC, Partner Groups and Volunteers Putting In Hard Work Maintaining Access to Our Public Lands

This is the season of the unsung hero of trail work, our steadfast and hardworking volunteers! This season in particular; it really does take the whole community to keep our trails open to our wild spaces around the Methow, as we all continue to grapple with the widespread damage from the winter storms.

MVTC just wrapped up our 2nd annual Twisp River Work Week event, with many great volunteers showing up to help our staff clear and repair trails for 8 days up the Twisp River Drainage.

The work that got done was impressive, most notably the Twisp River Trail #440 is logged out in its entirety now, although heads up we did hear reports of a few fresh trees that have come down towards the beginning of the trail. In the 2018 Crescent fire burnprint, trees have been coming down during all seasons the last several years.

ALL trails up the drainage are logged out to the wilderness boundary line.

Some hearty volunteers moving an egregious Ponderosa specimen off the trail during the Twisp River Work Week Event.

Some noteworthy tread issues were addressed up the South Creek Trail # 401 prior to the Louis Lake junction, with an impressive timber crib retaining wall constructed where a portion of the trail had been pulled away by a rootwad.

Volunteers moving some peeled logs into position for the retaining wall.

MVTC’s Director Allen, leading the charge on the South Creek Trail constructing a timber crib retaining wall, where a rootwad had pulled the tread away.

Our MVTC backcountry crew was also hard at work, pushing the log line 4.5 miles up the Wolf Creek Trail #527. They did encounter 2 washouts at mile marker 3.25 and 4.5 that would be unfriendly to stock.

Members of MVTC’s backcountry crew logging out up Wolf Creek Trail.

On ALL trails MVTC and our partners have been working on across the Methow District so far this spring, we have noted heavy logout both in green and in burn along with washouts and tread damage on every trail from the winter storms. Getting the word out to expect lots of blowdown and potential washouts and tread issues if venturing beyond recent trail work.