American Ridge, Nile Ridge — Thursday, Jun. 22, 2023

This trip was a WTA Lost Trails Found Crew going out for a week. Our two priority trails were American Ridge and Nile Ridge.
On American Ridge, we got 1.75 miles up, clearing the trail of blowdowns and scratching the trail in where it had appeared lost. Unfortunately, we had been thundered out a couple days in a row and didn’t have time to go further up on top of the ridge.
We then pivoted to Nile Ridge. We cleared logs out of the trail down the trail about 1.5 miles until we reached a 3rd creek crossing where the trail disappears. Up to that point, we marked new trails and cut logs in the way as well as scratched in the trail. This trail is hard to navigate even using downloaded gps maps, which are not accurate. Lots of downed and burned trees and lost tread past where we worked.