CUSTER GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST - West Fork Beaver Creek Trail #222 Flood Repair

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:  Hand construct a total of approximately 560 feet of new 72” wide, full bench stock trail through two washed out avalanche ravines, within a non-motorized wilderness designation. Work includes new trail construction with picks, rock bars, jack hammers, drilling and blasting. New construction is within extremely steep slopes, loose soils, extensive rock, eroding rock cliffs, outcroppings, and bedrock. Repeated, extensive surface and subsurface drilling and blasting will likely be necessary along numerous sections within these ravines to establish a 72” full bench trail, and remove excess material from the backslope and hillside above the trail. Use of rock .... Read More