PROJECTS

Below is a portfolio highlighting our more interesting or challenging projects. Click here for a full portfolio of our work.

Bridges | Specialized Use Trails | Technical Trail Construction

BRIDGES

Lower Paintrock Trail Bridge, 2010

  • 75 ft steel truss design
  • 100 cu yard earth abutments
  • 44 cu yard riprap
  • Helicopter transport

West Rosebud Trail Bridge, 2010

  • 45 ft glue-laminated timber slab design
  • High elevation helicopter transport

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

SPECIALIZED USE TRAILS

Yellowstone Bend Ranch Trail Design Project, 2010

  • Design, layout, and map hiking and mountain biking loops
  • Design and supply trail signs and user map

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

TECHNICAL TRAIL CONSTRUCTION

Cascade Falls Trail, 2010

  • Reconstructed steep and eroded trail to popular viewpoint
  • Built timber steps and retaining walls to stabilize highly erodible soils
  • Built observation deck overlooking Cascade Falls

Homestake-Maud S Canyon
Continental Divide National Scenic Trail
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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Our clients include:

  • USDA Forest Service
    - Gallatin National Forest
    - Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF
    - Helena National Forest
    - Custer National Forest
    - Dixie National Forest
    - Shoshone National Forest
    - Targhee-Caribou NF
    - Lolo National Forest
    - Bitterroot National Forest
    - Lewis and Clark NF
    - Flathead National Forest
    - Okanogan National Forest
  • Pueblo of Santa Ana
  • Friends of Missoula Trails
  • City of Livingston
  • Yellowstone Bend Ranch
  • Rocking C's Ranch
  • Deep Creek Green, LLC
  • Renovare, Inc.
  • Landowners in the Boulder River and Ruby River valleys

Volunteer service:

  • City of Livingston
  • Southwest Montana Climbers Coalition