We started off Hitch 10 with the completion of a 50 ft turnpike on the Russel Creek Trail No. 3. We added 25 ft to the existing turnpike, which had been installed only a couple of weeks earlier! The turnpikes are a great way to fix the extreme rutting and flooding on the popular trail just outside of Cooke City, MT. We also built an approach ramp to a wooden walkway further up the trail. The last two days were spent brushing and clearing the trail to multiple mountain lakes off the Russel Creek Trail!

![[Image Description: A MCC hard hat is balanced on a piece of wood with a mountain range in the background.]](https://cdn.firespring.com/images/f923e547-0081-436e-b18d-5bc58b1b0dbc.jpg)
![[Image Description: A Big Sky Watershed Corps member, wearing their AmeriCorps shirt and hat, is leaning over a boat on Flathead Lake holding on to a piece of net.]](https://cdn.firespring.com/images/131d80e9-8d92-42e3-aea8-b8951a514bba.jpeg)
![[Image Description: Three MCC members sit on the beaver dam analog they created, wearing their MCC uniforms and smiling.]](https://cdn.firespring.com/images/5b389450-2413-4909-962b-e9882cf797c9.jpg)
![[Image Description: Six MCC youth members and two leaders pose together, smiling, wearing Glacier Youth Corps t shirts and their hard hats.]](https://cdn.firespring.com/images/8802661b-efd9-4467-9762-54d2df2aafc1.jpg)