EJ Update – Teton Pass 6/20/10

Chris P., Mike Piker, Drew Kneeland, and Walt Berling spent a lot of time clearing the Teton Pass trails this week.  They opened up Phillips Canyon, the Ridge Trail, Arrow Trail, Big Rocks, the History Trail, and lower Blacks.  Thanks for your hard working efforts.  The trail ambassadors have been kicking butt and doing all the trail maintenance this year.  Note that some big patches of snow still exist in the high woodsy sections of Arrow Trail and Phillips canyon.  I was up at the Phillips Canyon trailhead on Teton Pass yesterday and there were a ton of people enjoying the newly cleared trails.

This week is going to be a huge one.  The St. Anthony’s work crew is back.  We have this hard working 20 person hand crew for 2 weeks.  They will be working on the Game Creek reroute early in the week.  It shouldn’t take them much more than two days to finish, since the SCA’s have gotten so far.  There is less than a mile left to go.  After that they will be working on the Josie’s Ridge reroute.  This is a smaller reroute of about 1500 ft. and should take them only a day.

Submitted by Erik Jacobson USFS