"Ruess"ing it in the Elk Ridge Canyons

Our annual spring Wilderness Volunteers trip was this past week. We had originally planned on going back into Dark Canyon to work on a tamarisk removal project, but due to the heavy snows there is still snowdrifts blocking the trail we needed to access. So we switched to Plan B, which was to do trail work and some tamarisk work in another of the wild canyons that is cut into Elk Ridge.

I packed food and gear in with the horses on Monday and went back in Friday night and packed the group back out Saturday morning. Ty came down and helped me out Friday and Saturday.

It was a great group and despite the unseasonably cold weather much great trail work and tamarisk work was accomplished.

Early morning at camp down in the Canyon. It froze every night.

Side canyon, looking up towards Elk Ridge

Three fingered pinnacle in the sunset

Tyler "Ruess"ing it with P.D. the fat Forest Service horse