Friends of Pathways has a formal partnership with the USFS to collaborate on design, construction and stewardship of local trails for all users – hike, bike, horse, and ski. We’re committed to providing easy year round access to trails in order to maintain our high quality of life in Jackson Hole.
This week the crew started on the new Game Creek connector trail. This trail will connect the Game Creek trailhead to the S. 89 pathway and will provide safe access from the neighborhoods along S. Hwy. 89 to their public lands without having to take a trip in a vehicle. We hope this will help alleviate some of the parking issues at the Game Creek trailhead. If you are out in the Game Creek area and would like to help we have a cache of tools and instructions at the western end of the trail and you are more than welcome to stop and dig for a little while. I highly suggest mornings and evenings as our crew was baking in the sun last week on the south facing slopes. Our youth crew has one more week of work and we will see if we can finish the stretch on the BTNF. The crew also worked on the Phillip’s Pass and Arrow trails this week cleaning drains and fixing tread. On Thursday they helped the town relocate the Rodeo/Pine Dr. Access trail. The trail was created by users over the last two decades but was actually on private property slightly to the west of the access easement. They brushed back the the larger trees and willows and re-dug it about 8 feet to the east. The Phillip’s Ridge and Snotel trails are opening back up now that the thinning crews have finished chainsawing in that area. I suggest heading up there this weekend as I imagine a byproduct of the thinning is better views of the mountains and valley!
https://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.png00FOPMasterhttps://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.pngFOPMaster2020-08-07 15:33:552020-08-07 15:34:14Trail Conditions for 8-7-20
We will be posting pathway plowing and sweeping updates as often as possible on this page and on our Facebook page.
Pathways maintenance personnel will be focusing on the winter-to-spring transition over the next several weeks, which includes…
With the weather this weekend it seemed like a good time to remind people about when not to use the trails. Our trails hold up well to the amount of use they get and because they get so much traffic they tend to be very compressed and…
https://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.png00FOPMasterhttps://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.pngFOPMaster2019-09-27 12:09:492019-09-27 12:12:42Trail Conditions for 9-27-19
Over the last 2 weeks we have been busy taking care of a bunch of small projects including clearing trees off of the Skyline, Game, West Game, and Wilson Canyon trails. We have been brushing, fixing signs, looking for signs (if anyone…
https://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.png00FOPMasterhttps://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.pngFOPMaster2019-09-06 11:43:012019-09-06 11:43:01Trail Conditions for 9-6-19
The last 2 weeks were busy ones. The youth trail crew finished up their season by clearing trees off the ridge trail with Randy, then they cleaned all the drains on the Big Rocks trail. After that they built a turnpike in Black Canyon,…
https://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.png00FOPMasterhttps://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.pngFOPMaster2019-08-23 12:52:372019-08-23 12:52:37Trail Conditions for 8-23-19
This week the crew worked on rebenching some switchbacks on the Ferrin's Trail and breaking off the corner of the Ferrin's Rock. After a hearing more stories of bike crashes there (handlebars are getting wider right?) and having to try…
https://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.png00FOPMasterhttps://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.pngFOPMaster2019-08-09 14:32:032019-08-09 14:36:13Trail Conditions for 8-9-19
This week the crew worked with another great volunteer group from the Beckett YMCA for 2 days on the West Game trail. They built a turnpike and a small reroute at a seasonal runoff between bridge 3 and 4. They also built a causeway to…
https://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.png00FOPMasterhttps://friendspathway.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FriendsofPathways.pngFOPMaster2019-08-02 10:56:082019-08-02 10:56:08Trail Conditions for 8-2-19
Trail Conditions for 8-7-20
This week the crew started on the new Game Creek connector trail. This trail will connect the Game Creek trailhead to the S. 89 pathway and will provide safe access from the neighborhoods along S. Hwy. 89 to their public lands without having to take a trip in a vehicle. We hope this will help alleviate some of the parking issues at the Game Creek trailhead. If you are out in the Game Creek area and would like to help we have a cache of tools and instructions at the western end of the trail and you are more than welcome to stop and dig for a little while. I highly suggest mornings and evenings as our crew was baking in the sun last week on the south facing slopes. Our youth crew has one more week of work and we will see if we can finish the stretch on the BTNF. The crew also worked on the Phillip’s Pass and Arrow trails this week cleaning drains and fixing tread. On Thursday they helped the town relocate the Rodeo/Pine Dr. Access trail. The trail was created by users over the last two decades but was actually on private property slightly to the west of the access easement. They brushed back the the larger trees and willows and re-dug it about 8 feet to the east. The Phillip’s Ridge and Snotel trails are opening back up now that the thinning crews have finished chainsawing in that area. I suggest heading up there this weekend as I imagine a byproduct of the thinning is better views of the mountains and valley!