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Photos: (Top) Spencer Arps dances through ferns and wet roots on Alternate Incline, a trail that winds through the moody second-growth forests of Blanchard State Forest in Skagit County, Washington. COLIN WISEMAN (Bottom) After years of planning, the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship (SBTS) began work on the Mount Hough trail system in 2013, an ambitious project that will eventually include 78 miles of singletrack. Among the existing 61 miles are trails like Indian Falls Ridge, which took Mason Werner through stands of white alder, big-leaf maple and a gamut of conifers (left)—or, a few years later, a forest of blackened stumps (right). KEN ETZEL
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