Clay’s CDT Blog Part 8: Winter is Coming
This summer, ITA crew leader and former employee Clay Jacobson will be hiking the Continental Divide Trail starting north and going south. The CDT spans over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico and crosses through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. We’re happy to be following Clay along his journey and will be posting his updates from the trail! You can see all of Clay's blog posts here. September 19th ... Read More
Join us for National Public Lands Day!
September 24 is National Public Lands Day and we have two ways you can join us in celebrating our shared public spaces! Join us on a project- We have a weekend trip and two Saturday projects planned in North and South Idaho. Kirkwood Bridge • September 23-25 • Hells Canyon Wilderness Volunteers will meet midday Friday at Pittsburg Landing to be jet boated to the historical Kirkwood Ranch to ... Read More
Clay’s CDT Blog Part 7: Stand off with a moose
This summer, ITA crew leader and former employee Clay Jacobson will be hiking the Continental Divide Trail starting north and going south. The CDT spans over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico and crosses through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. We’re happy to be following Clay along his journey and will be posting his updates from the trail! You can see all of Clay's blog posts here. September 6th ... Read More
Clay’s CDT Blog Part 6: Up and Down
This summer, ITA crew leader and former employee Clay Jacobson will be hiking the Continental Divide Trail starting north and going south. The CDT spans over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico and crosses through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. We’re happy to be following Clay along his journey and will be posting his updates from the trail! You can see all of Clay's blog posts here. August 20th ... Read More
The Future is Bright: ITA and SBFC collaboration focuses on next generation of trail stewards
Earlier this season, ITA collaborated with the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation on the Goat Ridge Youth project in the Nez Perce Clearwater National Forest. Four ITA teen volunteers worked alongside three SBFC Wilderness Ranger Fellows with the objective to clear the Goat Ridge Trail starting at the Shearer Airstrip and working as far as possible towards Wylies Peak. Three leaders from ITA and SBFC provided guidance but the ... Read More
Volunteer Spotlight: Anna Jones
On her first ever ITA project earlier this year, Anna Jones, a communications manager who moved to Idaho two years ago from Mississippi, lost most of her camping gear. While the crew was out working on a project out of the Grandjean trailhead in the Sawtooth Recreation Area, sudden wind gusts blew her whole tent, including her sleeping bag and pad, into the South Fork of the Payette River ... Read More
Clay’s CDT Blog Part 5: Back in Idaho
This summer, ITA crew leader and former employee Clay Jacobson will be hiking the Continental Divide Trail starting north and going south. The CDT spans over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico and crosses through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. We’re happy to be following Clay along his journey and will be posting his updates from the trail! You can see all of Clay's blog posts here. August 6th ... Read More
WOW Little Queens
It is always a treat to spend a week in a place with a regal name, and the Women's Only Work Week left the Little Queen's Valley ruddy and rugged, if a little grubby, having earned a few crosscutting crowns. Nine women, some friends from before but all friends after, cleared 126 trees from the trail, lobbed ceanothus that had previously hidden the trail, and restored parts of the ... Read More
Clay’s CDT Blog Part 4: Watch out for that steak!
This summer, ITA crew leader and former employee Clay Jacobson will be hiking the Continental Divide Trail starting north and going south. The CDT spans over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico and crosses through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. We’re happy to be following Clay along his journey and will be posting his updates from the trail! You can see all of Clay's blog posts here. July 27th ... Read More
Clay’s CDT Blog Part 3: Into the Bob Marshall Wilderness
This summer, ITA crew leader and former employee Clay Jacobson will be hiking the Continental Divide Trail starting north and going south. The CDT spans over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico and crosses through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. We’re happy to be following Clay along his journey and will be posting his updates from the trail! You can see all of Clay's blog posts here. Update 3: ... Read More