About our WOW Program
ITA’s Women Only Weekend/Week-long (WOW) trail projects provide an encouraging environment for women to learn trail maintenance skills and find community with other volunteers who love the outdoors! No previous trail work skills are necessary and we welcome all female-identifying volunteers to join us for a WOW project!
Contact trails@idahotrailsassociation.org if you have any questions about our WOW projects.
I came home from my first WOW weekend filled with such a powerful sense of accomplishment. It filled my heart to spend a weekend with a group of like-minded women that cared about trails and taking care of our Idahome. I have made friendships from this weekend that I might not have had the opportunity to have built. Was it hard? Yup. Was I tired? Yup. Was it worth it? Yup. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat.
A particular bond comes from lopping, sawing, and chopping with someone, especially when you can joke about mammograms and bad dates in between clearing trees. The sense of accomplishment was unreal- we were able to visually see the progress we made along the trail and knew our work would be appreciated by the guides and rangers who rely on clear trails to earn a living.
Upcoming Women Only Projects
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 crew and some crosscut ... Read More
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 maintenance up as far ... Read More
This is a Women Only Weekend, working on the Gordon Creek Trail. This three mile trail gains 1,700’, climbing up to the Pend Oreille Divide Trail high above Lake Darling in the upper Lightning Creek drainage. We’ll log out the trail and do some brushing and tread work. ITA volunteers can camp overnight at ... Read More
The Women Only crew will start at Caton Lake/ Rainbow Lake Trailhead and backpack into Rainbow Lake and set up base camp there. We will make day trips up the trail, clearing trees and brushing along the way. Eventually we can bump camp as the trail is cleared and the goal is to reach ... Read More
On this Women-Only-Weekend project, ITA volunteers will be camping at the Bear Valley Creek Trailhead north of Lowman. The crew will be working on the trail to Bear Valley Hot Spring and mitigating impacts of the unsanctioned user trail that has been established. We will return after work to the trailhead where there is ... Read More
