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FILE- In this Sept. 8, 2002, file photo, wildfire damage from the Biscuit Fire is shown on Snow Camp Mountain near Agness, Ore. A Portland, Ore., couple has spent years clearing the wild and remote Trans-Kalmiopsis Trail with hand tools after the raging wildfire destroyed much of it in 2002. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard, File)

Couple dedicates life to clearing Kalmiopsis Trail

By IAN MCCLUSKEY - Associated Press

In this May 4, 2017 photo, Aaron Babcock, left, field coordinator with the Siskiyou Mountain Club, and Jason Middleton, sales manager with REI, use a cross-cut saw while clearing down trees from a trail in the Sky Lakes Wilderness area in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, about 50 miles east of Medford, Ore. Members of the Siskiyou Mountain Club are embarking on an ambitious task of reclaiming a historic 27-mile hiking loop through the Sky Lakes Wilderness Area in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon that is blocked with an estimated 15,000 blown-down trees, including thousands within 2008′s Middle Fork fire zone. ( Jamie Lusch/The Medford Mail Tribune via AP)

Oregon club using hand tools to clear wilderness trail

By MARK FREEMAN - Associated Press