Feather Creek

The project was logging out a five-mile loop trail
located in the Clearwater National Forest about four
miles from Bovill, Idaho. Sounded easy, but Mother
Nature did us no favors as there was one section
about 200 feet long that had about 30 trees piled
several deep. A group of mountain bikers helped us
for a short time in this bad area as they could not get
through until we had done some cutting. They
thanked us many times for othe work we were doing
on the trail.

Bob Shelton was trail boss and had scoped the trail
out on foot. He made a plan to send workers out in
opposite directions and hopefully meet in the middle
before sundown.

We all came prepared. There were more chain saws
than workers. We had three pack animals - one with
each work crew to pack tools, gas, lunch, etc. They
sure were appreciated as we were pretty exhauted
when we finally met in the middle.

Since Bob and Pat had walked the trail twice, they
worked on the end with the least downfall and then
bragged about how they cleared more miles of trail
than the other two groups of workers combined!

This trail is almost entirely in timber and an easy ride
for a warm day as there is plenty of shade.