The Swan Rangers made numerous repairs to the Peters Ridge Trail on July 5, 2014, including cleaning of water bars, a bit of brushing, and plenty of re-tread digging higher up!

Tread was repaired in numerous spots where the steep hillside slumps in the upper Brown's Creek bowl, including one of the switchbacks:

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Numerous sections slumping on the steep Browns Creek hillside traverse were repaired like this:

A dozen water bars were cleared to keep rain water diverted off the trail. This broken and rotted water bar . . .

. . . was dug out and replaced with a new log and trench:

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