TrailKeepers of Oregon is having a work party to fix a slide area and a few other issues on the RiverSide trail #723 on May 11.
Sign up on http://www.trailkeepersoforegon.org/one/index.php/traileventsitem or meet us there. Signing up helps us know how many tools to bring.
We'll be starting at Riverside Campground at 8:30am Saturday and working North towards Rainbow campground. We'll probably only get to the middle trail head by the end of the day. But if we get further there are some cut throughs we'd like to obliterate just North of that trail head. 🙂
Curtis Smith Trail
Keepers of Oregon
I don't know it applies now or not, but when the campgrounds are open they are fussy about trail parking in the sites, so we often used the other access points, of which there are quite a few. Unless there were campers using them. One right on the highway I am sure you noticed. The other we used a lot was the first right past Rainbow. Sometime ago, the firecrews cut a trail to the river for a small fire from the camp at the end of that road. When rainbow gate is closed, it saved hauling tools down the road and to the far end of the camp. Pretty much we would do back and forths from the three (including the formal middle trailhead) intermediate entrances and stay away from the concessioniers.
I will not be able to attend, but I hope you get good turn out and send some pictures.
Don2
So no update from the Trailkeepers! I know I drove by the area that weekend to go on a hike up river with Murphy. I didn't see a lot of vehicles at any of the trail access points so I figured it was a no show. Or as most volunteers find out sooner or later, that they are pretty much working alone or with 1 or 2 other like minded people if you are lucky.
Don
The turnout wasn't bad. We parked at the trail head between the campgrounds and then shuttled people to the Riverside campground. So the only car visible from the road would have been 1 car at the entrance of the Riverside campground.
- We widened the trail at the slide area near Riverside campground
- Cleared three logs from the trail
- Repaired a spot where an older repair was washing out and built a ditch to prevent water from running into the spot in the future.
- Tread repair in multiple spots
- Rerouted 30 ft of trail in a section where it was getting too close to the edge, near the clearing infested with scotch broom.
- Blocked 5 cut-throughs including transplanting native plants to naturalize the non-trails.
The one major issue we didn't work on was there is a washout near the Tag Creek bridge where the cliff edge is eating into the trail. That's probably going to be a reroute but the Forest Service wants to look it over first.
We had enough help we finished about 2pm.
I didn't get pictures - everybody was working an no one thought to take pictures. I often forget to do that, sometimes my wife come along just to take pictures which are the only work parties that get photo evidence. 
Curtis Smith
TrailKeepers of Oregon.