I can’t emphasize enough the excellent work done by the volunteer crews and the trail-building (or repair) expertise of those who led this project.
Over the years I have regularly lamented, and sometimes harshly criticized, the poor condition of many popular trails in Chugach State Park’s Front Range, east of Anchorage. Now it’s my pleasure to celebrate a project that has vastly improved one of the park’s most heavily traveled pathways: a stretch of trail that leads to both Hidden Lake and Ship Lake Pass . Here I will simply call it the Hidden Lake Trail.
That summer’s unusually heavy rainfall was partly to blame. But so was our state government’s shameful, and frankly baffling, unwillingness to provide sufficient funding and staff to adequately maintain popular trails in one of Alaska’s premier parklands, truly a “crown jewel” of our state parks system.
Not surprisingly, hikers and hill runners had created a maze of secondary paths where they tried to circumvent the mud bog, which only served to further damage the meadow. I suggested that much of the problem could be fixed with boardwalk, to bridge the muddiest sections, but had no high hopes it would be done anytime soon.
New, sturdy boardwalk has been built in two places where the route crosses marshy areas, including — and especially — where it had become a huge and ever-expanding mud bog. And where the trail passes through the hemlocks, a combination of gravelly sand and drainage ditches have eliminated mud holes there.
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