January 22, 2020 The Superior Hiking Trail Association seeks proposals from individuals and businesses with expertise and creative solutions for crossing beaver dams! Those skills and solutions will be employed on a 2020 trail construction project to replace the unstable and dangerous boardwalk across the Sawmill Creek beaver dam. No more janky structures! SHTA plans […]
November 18, 2019 As the ground underneath the Superior Hiking Trail has frozen over the past few weeks, we’ve received the seasonal signal: it’s time to switch gears from trail work and begin preparing for 2020. In lieu of hibernation, we’re shifting our focus on to planning, prioritizing, and permitting projects to be ready again […]
October 28, 2019 Last year, the Superior Hiking Trail Association brought in experts to evaluate our Trail and help us make decisions about renewal priorities. Absent from those conversations, however, was an assessment of the SHT’s occasionally less-than-sustainable campsites. With increasing trail use and pressure on our tent pads and latrines, we know it’s time […]
October 23, 2019 The abiding memory SHT users may have of their 2019 experience on the Trail may well be, “Sure was wet and muddy out there.” Indeed. With the record amount of snowfall last winter, some falling well into May, and the near-daily rainfall we’ve had on the North Shore since early September (exaggeration, […]
October 23, 2019 (Originally published in the Fall 2019 Ridgeline newsletter) I was new on the job at the SHTA two years ago, trying to get a handle on the best design and construction standards for the Trail that would withstand the increasing pounding, both from feet and from water, expected in the coming decades. […]