If you’re more interested in seeing miles of trails in Idaho’s backcountry, perhaps a Monitoring project would be the right fit for you. Each season we do several projects collecting GPS data for land managers while providing backpacking skills to our volunteers. We cover between 25 and 50 miles of trail on each trip, setting our camp up at a different site each night. And yes, we are always willing to hike a few more miles to find that perfect place to drop our tent to enjoy a view after a long day of tracking and recording trail conditions.

If camping, backpacking or swinging a Pulaski aren’t for you but you still want to help keep our trails open, we have other ways to help. In addition to your support through membership financial contributions, we need help from members to drive trail tools and tents to and from projects. We would also like to engage volunteers as camp cooks. And we often have projects where volunteers’ skills such as administrative, human resources, social media, financial and marketing would be appreciated. Let us know if you would like to help fill gaps for ITA throughout the year.

Interested in the amount of miles covered and volunteer hours contributed in 2019? We will provide that and other information in the upcoming weeks of our Membership Drive. We will also give you a sneak peek into what’s ahead for 2020. Remember, as a member, you get a chance to secure your spot on our projects before we broadcast the list to the general public.