Continuing our work from last year, ITA volunteers will conduct trail maintenance on the Little Queens River trail in the Sawtooth Wilderness, near Atlanta, ID. Plan to meet Friday afternoon/evening where we’ll camp together for the weekend near the trailhead. On Saturday and Sunday, we will hike up the trail, […]
This weeklong backpacking trip is a chance to explore everything the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness has to offer. Youth volunteers will fly into the Shearer airstrip on the Selway River. From there we will backpack three miles to our first camp. Trail work will include clearing logs off the trail and […]
This is ITAs annual clean-up of the Hum Lake Trail. We’ll remove any trees that have fallen on the trail over the winter and clear out drains and water bars as we go. This popular trail offers amazing views, beautiful lakes, and abundant wildflowers. There is also excellent camping and […]
This project is replacing a bridge on the Duck Lake Trail about ½ mile up from Duck Lake Trailhead. The materials will need to be carried up to the project site and installed. This will be about 60 -4-foot-long boards, 3-20 foot stringers, nails, hammers, and tools. This popular trail […]
This 5-day backpacking style trip will take volunteers into a beautiful hanging valley, tucked away off of Lick Crick Road outside McCall. This is a continuation of projects over the last three years on the North Fork Lick Creek, trying to tie into where we cleared from the Hum Lake […]
This is a three-day youth project in the beautiful upper North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River. Join us starting Thursday afternoon if you can. We are planning on an early start Friday morning so we can leave time each day to enjoy all the amenities available at camp. We’ll […]
The Alice Toxaway loop in the Sawtooth Wilderness needs no introduction. Renowned for its beauty, this trail gets a lot of use over the season making it especially important that it stays maintained. ITA has spent the last several years working around the loop, finally completing all the major trail […]
Volunteers will meet at the Windy Saddle Trailhead where we will leave early Saturday morning for our journey into the Hells Canyon Wilderness. We’ll spend four nights packing around the loop, logging out, brushing, and improving the tread, moving camp as we go. This trail gains and loses elevation several […]
Join us for a youth trip near beautiful Rapid River, a Wild and Scenic River in the Payette National Forest! Youth volunteers will backpack in from the Ants Basin trail head and hike four miles to Indian Springs. Pack stock will carry camping gear and food to our base camp […]
Join us again for a collaborative project between ITA and Ridge to Rivers! We’ll be working on new trail construction on the Hawkins Range Reserve. Constructing new trail can be among the most satisfying projects volunteers can take on. Construction can be broken up into three distinct phases- Brushing/Clearing, excavating, […]
The crew will meet at the B Bar C Ranch near Meyers Cove Sunday for a packing clinic/demo Monday from Middle Fork Outfitters. On Tuesday pack stock will help the crew pack into camp. Volunteers will only need to carry personal gear. Project work will go up the West Fork […]
Continuing our work from earlier this year and last year, this Women Only crew will continue working up the Little Queens River trail in the Sawtooth Wilderness, near Atlanta, ID. With lots of reports of downed trees over the trail, this trail needs some love in the form of a […]
ITA volunteers will meet at Granite Lake on Friday evening where we’ll car camp for the weekend. We’ll work on the Deep Creek Trail clearing it to the junction with Cougar Creek about three miles total. This trail travels through forest and alpine meadows but has become overgrown and needs […]
Deep in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, volunteers will spend a week clearing several trails and exploring the remote mountains, lakes, and meadows this area has to offer. The crew will fly into Chamberlain Backcountry Airstrip and divide into 2 crews of 3, one crew lead and […]
Starting from the Trestle Creek Road, volunteers will work on tread work and some brushing along a 3-mile section of the Beetop Roundtop Trail. This trail, which is part of the Idaho Centennial Trail, is a beautiful alpine trail with incredible views. After work, a short hike to the top […]
Volunteers will spend five days in the very northern end of Idaho (hello Canada!) working with a US Forest Service crew on the trail up Red Top Mountain. The trail passes beautiful Hidden Lake where there is good camping, fishing, and swimming. The views from the summit of Red Top […]
ITA volunteers will spend a week camped in the Wilderness at Swet Cabin high in the mountains above the Salmon River. This is a fully supported trip and we’ll have pack stock to assist bringing in gear and food. Volunteers will only need to carry their personal gear. The crew […]
This will be year three of ITA and the Sandpoint Monday Hiker group partnering to work on Blacktail Lake in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest. Volunteer sign-ups are open to all! We’ll do brushing and tread work for several hours and then turn the hikers loose to finish their walk. […]
In the fabulous Pioneer Mountains, join us on a Women's Only Weekend project where we’re teaming up with the Wood River Trails Coalition to tackle the loop to Pioneer Cabin. We’ll meet at the Hyndman Trailhead, where we will be car camping for the weekend. We will work on trial […]
ITA volunteers will work again on the beautiful historic Pulaski Memorial trail near Wallace. The trail travels about 3 ½ miles to the old mine tunnel where Ed Pulaski saved many members of a crew that were fighting the huge 1910 forest fire that burned through the area. The trail […]
