{"id":6761,"date":"2020-12-17T15:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:17","slug":"ita-membership-new-equipment-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=6761","title":{"rendered":"ITA – Membership & New Equipment Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs part of our membership drive, we are bringing you weekly updates about some of the programs your donations are helping to make happen!
\nThese tools are OLD!<\/strong>
\nSince our humble beginnings in 2010, ITA volunteers have spent a decade maintaining hundreds of miles of non-motorized trail in Idaho. This means that our trail work tools have spent 10 years in the field cutting brush, digging tread, mining rock, and sawing logs. Every season our tools travel across the state, from project to project, enabling our volunteers in their stewardship of Idaho\u2019s hiking trails. The current ITA cache is a hodgepodge of Forest Service hand-me-downs, donations\u00a0from our Board and members, and\u00a0additional\u00a0tools paid for by supplemental\u00a0grants.<\/p>\n

These tools have served us well!\u00a0Our tools traverse the ridges of the Frank Church Wilderness, summit the Sawtooth peaks, boat the wild Salmon and Snake rivers. They brave the snow and sizzle in the heat of summer. Hundreds of volunteers have taken their first Pulaski swing with an ITA tool.\u00a0Our seasoned equipment has gotten crew after crew of like-minded Idahoans out in the woods to enjoy the best of what Idaho has to offer.<\/p>\n

As ITA has continued its steady growth, our tools have been tasked with more and more. They\u2019ve been spread thin. They\u2019ve grown tired. There have been casualties. Every season a few of our hard-working tools succumb to the abuse they receive in their mission to keep Idaho\u2019s trails open. Wobbly shovel heads and wonky\u00a0pulaskis\u00a0become the norm when tools are pushed to their breaking point.\u00a02021 will see a continued expansion of our trail program and an increased demand on our tool cache.<\/p>\n

With the addition of six week-long youth projects and two Women Only Week-longs, ITA will have more projects running concurrently than ever before.\u00a0That\u2019s why we are\u00a0seeking to raise an additional $2,500 this year to fully outfit a 12-person crew with new tools.\u00a0These tools will ensure that every volunteer that wants to help maintain Idaho\u2019s trails has access to the tools to do so. This cache will allow us to retire some of our older tools that have served many seasons beyond their prime and help us avoid excessive tool-trailer shuttling. These tools will set up ITA for success in 2021!<\/p>\n

Will you join us in supporting Idaho’s trails by becoming a member and helping us purchase the tools we need for a strong 2021 season? JOIN or RENEW your Membership<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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As part of our membership drive, we are bringing you weekly updates about some of the programs your donations are helping to make happen! These tools are OLD! Since our humble beginnings in 2010, ITA volunteers have spent a decade maintaining hundreds of miles of non-motorized trail in Idaho. This means that our trail work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}