Palisades Creek Bridge
Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 2008

• 60 ft steel truss design
• Timber bridge abutments
• Large volume of fill required for abutments and approaches
• Helicopter transport

Glacier Lake Trail Bridge
Custer National Forest, 2007

• 50 ft glue-laminated timber design
• High elevation, helicopter transport

Daisy Creek Trail Bridges
Lewis and Clark National Forest, 2007-08

• 25 - 45 ft glue-laminated timber design
• Large volume of fill required for approaches
• 5 bridges completed in 2 seasons
• Helicopter transport

Zieg Trail
Equestrian Trail, Rocking C's Ranch, 2008

• Efficient design-build trail project for private landowner
• Designed as a sustainable alternative to very steep, user-created trail
• Single track designed for equestrian and foot travel

Leverich Canyon Trail
Shared Use Trail, Gallatin National Forest, 2008

• Single track designed for shared use, very popular with mountain bikers
• Loop ride with uphill and downhill sections
• Excavation provided in conjunction with Forest Service and volunteer labor

photo courtesy of Todd Orr

South Hills Trail
Shared Use Trail, Helena National Forest, 2003

• Single track designed for shared use, very popular with mountain bikers
• Trail completed safely and efficiently in urban-interface environment

Homestake-Maud S Canyon
Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDNST)
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, 2009

• Nine miles of new trail construction through weathered bedrock (the Boulder Batholith)
• Extensive use of explosives to pioneer route
• Difficult excavation, 27 switchbacks constructed

South Fork Catwalk Trail,
Washakie Wilderness
Shoshone National Forest, 2005

• Widened to 6 ft a popular horsepacking trail by blasting through vertical rock wall
• Created 15 ft wide passing zones at either end of steep section

Whiskey Mt. Trail, Popo-Agie Wilderness
Shoshone National Forest, 2005

• Rerouted existing trail around landslide, which required extensive switchback construction and tread construction through talus

Slough Creek Trail
Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
Gallatin National Forest, 2007

• Re-routed historical, 8 ft wide wagon road out of floodplain
• Trail re-location involved blasting through granite bedrock and using blast material to build elevated turnpike

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