{"id":9154,"date":"2023-08-21T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:11","slug":"trail-upkeep-draws-volunteers-from-across-the-state-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9154","title":{"rendered":"Trail upkeep draws volunteers from across the state each year"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"list-inline\">\n<li><span class=\"tnt-byline\">MESSENGER INDEX STAFF newsroom@messenger-index.com\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><time class=\"tnt-date asset-date text-muted\" datetime=\"2023-08-07T13:22:00-06:00\">Aug 7, 2023<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/64d1054598746.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9155\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/64d1054598746.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/64d1054598746.image_.jpg 666w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/64d1054598746.image_-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Squaw Butte Chapter of Back Country Horseman of Idaho spend a lot of summer weekends doing trail or trailhead work in the mountains, or providing pack support for other volunteer trail crews. In July some members provided the pack support to a trail crew out of the Moscow\/Pullman area spending a week cutting trees on trails in the Frank Chuck Wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Waugh, of the Squaw Butte Chapter was the lead packer for the group and provided the following account of the trip back out of the Wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPicked up the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation trail crew. They did an amazing job clearing over 5 miles and cutting more than 550 trees with a crosscut saw. If you haven\u2019t ran one then you wouldn\u2019t understand the task of this. But 3 crosscut teams can get to work!<\/p>\n<div class=\"tnt-ads-container text-center\">\n<div id=\"tnt-smart-ad-1\" class=\"tnt-ads dfp-smart-ad\">We arrived and had thunderstorms overhead. Marja and I got to spend the evening of our arrival hanging out in our camper. We watched multiple bucks try to get the horses and mules alfalfa most of the evening. They sure wanted the snacks.<\/div>\n<p>The morning of the pack out was cool and wet and came early. Thank goodness for good hot coffee. We had the seven pack animals and two riding horses saddled and ready to go in about an hour. The ride in was great and without issue. The trail was wet so zero dust which is always a blessing. However, the bogs were deeper and sloppier than last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopress.com\/emmett\/sports\/trail-upkeep-draws-volunteers-from-across-the-state-each-year\/article_30af6f78-32fc-11ee-9c07-337ab599777f.html\"><strong>LINK TO PAPER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MESSENGER INDEX STAFF newsroom@messenger-index.com\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0 Aug 7, 2023 The Squaw Butte Chapter of Back Country Horseman of Idaho spend a lot of summer weekends doing trail or trailhead work in the mountains, or providing pack support for other volunteer trail crews. In July some members provided the pack support to a trail crew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-bchi-bcha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","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=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9156,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}