Fire charred Pow Wow Trail
Good pictures by Martin Kubik & crew.

Viewed these earlier. Great documentation of what fire can do. When the duff is gone, also is the foot bed and most all signs that man has been there before. It'll be a few years before one can make a long lasting mark of where the trail should be.... other than lots and lots of blazing tape and cairns.
Apparently the first thing to come back were the mosquito's. GO FIGURE!
Didn't care much for the remark about toxic fumes from a few fiberglass latrines burning, and wanting to bring back wooden latrines. People like that aren't willing to see it from the FS point of view. Wooden latrines eventually require maintenance or need to be replaced. Again, something that the FS doesn't have the funding or time for.

Great pictures. Looks like it was a really tough trip. The effort needed to keep that trail maintained is going to be tough though.

I totally agree PortageKeeper- those fumes are harmless in the great scheme of things.

I have heard stories though, of rangers deep sixing old latreens so they didn't have to carry them out and that did rile me. Firegrates too, but that isn't so bad.

There is a lot of work to be done there. Sad photos.

I'm am in Martin's club (BWAC) The amount of work OFF the trail just to get the agreement that the trail will be kept open has been the tough part. At least from my perspective. You wouldn't think there would be so much back and forth politics involved... Yeah. Well, the trail won in the end. Lots of work ahead of us though. 10-15 years worth of hard physical labor ahead of us. Personally, I'm looking forward to it.