Rogue-Umpqua Divide 1046 Trail
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Old School
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Rogue-Umpqua Divide 1046 Trail
It appears to be decades since there was any trail maintenance. The registration box at the trailhead at Hummingbird Meadows is destroyed. There are large windfalls across the trail throughout the entire length of the trail.
Re: Rogue-Umpqua Divide 1046 Trail
Old School wrote:It appears to be decades since there was any trail maintenance. The registration box at the trailhead at Hummingbird Meadows is destroyed. There are large windfalls across the trail throughout the entire length of the trail.
Yes, this area suffers from a (big) lack of trail maintenance, hiker use, and signage. The Rogue-Umpqua Divide Trail (#1470), the supposedly premier trail in this wilderness, has many parts that seem to have been forgotten by the USFS and the hiking community. Even the "popular" section of the #1470 from Huckleberry Gap to Abbott Butte - which is the easiest piece to follow - took a hit this year from many fallen trees (TR). For extra confusion, the #1046, which intersects the #1470, is both the Alkali Trail (on the USFS website) and a piece of the Buck Canyon trail (per the signage and the latest USFS map, TR). And it doesn't help hikers that the east side of the divide outside of the wilderness has been given over to OHV trails, some of which replaced hiking trails. There are some good hikes along the Divide - like Fish Lake, the Rocky Ridge trail, Rattlesnake Mtn - but you have to work for them.