The Lost Trails Found crew recently finished up a hitch on the Shedroof Divide. We did logout and started repairing a turnpike.
We started our hitch by logging out the Thunder Creek trail. A volunteer crew got most of that trail cleaned up before we arrived. We just finished up the last bit of that trail and moved on to the Shedroof Divide trail going north from the junction with Thunder Creek. We logged out the first few miles of that section and got part of the way through the burn zone from the North Fork Hughes fire in 2017. The trail in the burn zone can be a bit difficult to follow. The wildflowers are trying their best to reclaim the trail tread.
Our other project on the Shedroof Divide was repairing a turnpike. We rebuilt about 10 feet of turnpike. Additionally, we reestablished drainage and refilled the tread on another section of turnpike. This area of the trail was very wet and we found that, at this time of year, the stream here was a better water source than the spring near the campsite. It is approximately 3 miles from the junction of Shedroof Divide and Thunder Creek trails.
We camped at two different campsites during the week. The first one was on the Thunder Creek trail just before the junction with the Shedroof divide. This campsite was in a meadow and had a small water source. However, there was lots of bear scat throughout this area. We were extra vigilant with our food storage and cooked away from our tents because there are grizzly bears in this area.
Our second campsite was just north of a spring on the Shedroof Divide trail, approximately 1-2 miles from the junction. It had beautiful views looking east into Idaho and down to Priest Lake.
I would recommend this trail for folks who are looking for solitude. We only saw two other backpackers the whole week we were on trail.
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