So it's been a while, but I've been very busy on creating the first of our new 2010 trails on Bear Paw Ridge. We should be finishing the current trail this week and whoa-nelly, is it a doosie! Most of our existing trails are fairly easy/simple, so we intentionally chose to make this one more challenging. There's a great reward at the top though... after a tough climb up the mountain, you can rest on a bench with a year-round view that peers out to Mount Yonah in the distance. The local wildlife have already taken a fancy to our trail... we see new tracks just about every day.
The current trail takes you from the end of Angler Alley, at the north end of the Achasta property, all the way to the top of Bear Paw Ridge. Next we will be doing two shorter trails on Bear Paw Ridge, in an effort to essentially make a large loop trail accessible from the Achasta River Park.
if you have any suggestions on new trail names, please email me at jmoran@achasta.com.