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Happy Pride Month!! 🌈🎉✨ Thank you SEAGLA for our flag! 🏳️🌈
📍Lingít Aaní
Run the Ridge! 🏃♀️
On June 26, you can race on one of Juneau’s most iconic alpine trails during the Juneau Ridge Race. Beginning and ending in Cope Park, runners ascend to the summit of Mt. Juneau, traverse the Juneau Ridge, and then descend into Granite Basin back onto Perseverance.
With approximately 15 miles and 5000 feet of total elevation gain, every finisher is a winner. 🏅
Register today as this event will sell out. bit.ly/3NH0yar
📍Katlaax̱
We’re back on Perseverance! 😎
As most of you know, Perseverance took a beating this winter with both an avalanche and a landslide at the beginning of the trail. That was after a storm last year damaged bridges and caused a section of trail to erode into Gold Creek.
We’ve got our work cut for ourselves, but the good news is that we had already planned to have a dedicated crew on Persy all season. Thanks for your patience as we start to get one of Juneau’s most iconic trails back into shape!
📍It’ji Shaanáx
Join our friends NAMI Juneau, SAIL, Juneau Bike Doctor, Zach Gordon Youth Center, and more for Pride Outside next weekend! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
100 trees and a 100 ft washout! 🌲 🌊🪨
With all the snow melted on Herbert Glacier trail, members of the Volunteer Trail Maintenance Team chainsawed through approximately 100 downed trees blocking the trail (yes, that’s in addition to the 27 earlier this winter 😮) and fixed a washout below one of the bridges.
To fix the washout, they first had to unblock the bridge underpass as an obstruction had caused the water to divert down the trail and erode the path for ~100 ft. After water was flowing freely again, they set about moving all the material deposited at the bottom of the incline back to the top in order to bring the trail level with the bridge again.
Now it’s a smooooth experience whether you’re riding, hiking, or walking your dog. Shoutout to Marc, Mark, Greg, Tom, Chris, Jack, Dave and everyone else who pitched in.
📍 Ḵaa Shaa Teiwalgi
What a stretch of sun! 🌄
This has been an incredible spring, but has anyone else been go go go outdoors and feeling alright with the rain today? It’s a welcome breather. 😮💨
📍Áak’w Ḵwáan lands
It’s national bike to work day! 🚲
Shoutout to Dane who rides to and from the Trail Mix shop with a full day of trail work sandwiched between his commute. We salute you and your daily use of 2 helmets! 👷♂️🚴🏼♂️
📍Áak’w Ḵwáan lands
Trail Mix won Best Nonprofit! 🥇
Thank you to everyone who voted for us for Best of Juneau. We love taking care of our trail system and serving our community. bit.ly/38IX6No
🦫We’re beaver believers here at Trail Mix🦫
How can we work with the beavers instead of against them? We install beaver deceivers! 🦫 We spent a week out at Southeast Alaska Land Trust’s Very Beary Berry Wetlands conservation property learning how to install a beaver deceiver. Beaver deceivers help protect important ecosystems. 🌲🦆 Beavers are able to remain in their own space, and the ponds they create provide habitat for migrating birds.
Beaver deceivers provide a way for water to flow through a beaver dam without the beavers noticing. 🌊 For this project, we removed an old beaver deceiver that had gone awry and reinstalled it. While the end result doesn’t look like much, that’s the point. 😉 Beaver decievers are made to be incognito and blend into the surroundings.
❗️Stay tuned: tomorrow we’ll be covering all the details of the installation in our stories.
As beavers continue to make their home in Southeast Alaska, we’re happy to add “beaver deceiver installation” to our toolkit to protect our trails and important ecosystems.
📍Áak’w Ḵwáan lands
🎉Let’s hear it for the girls! 🎉
On Saturday we had a wonderful time with the Girl Scouts of Alaska - Juneau at our first Trail Stewards workday. 💪These incredible girls have chosen to work on the Deishú Áak'w-Outer Point Trail throughout the field season.
At the start of the loop on Outer Point Trail, there was a large rotting stump that was constricting the access to the trail. The Girl Scouts helped excavate dirt and debris from the area and clipped back the stump. Once the trail was widened, gravel was wheelbarrowed in and added to the trail.
✨What a great start to the Trail Steward’s season! ✨We can’t wait to see the Girl Scouts again next month!
📍Deishú Áak'w
We’re upping the ante with a harder bench to guess! 🧐 Do you know where this one is located?
If you think you do, tell us in the comments. We’ll reveal the correct answer after a few guesses.
Here’s a hint: Review the last ‘Take a Seat’ because it’s NOT that one. And to reduce confusion, there’s no snow present currently. Good luck!
📍Wóoshde X'al.at Yé
Vivian Faith Prescott of Planet Alaska has a new book out! 📖
My Father's Smokehouse contains recipes like smoked hooligan spring rolls, salmonberry butter, & spruce tip sugar cookies.
But it also tells stories of Traditional Knowledge that is learned and passed on, from one generation to the next.
Check out Hearthside Books to get your copy today.