The Forest Service Crews recently completed a three mile reroute of the R2R trail in the Lusk Creek Wilderness. This reroute is between trail 425 and Little Lusk Creek on the east end. The FS has been working on the reroute for about a year and half. This reroute eliminates a long 2.5 mile section of trail that was on old FS roads and replaces in with a new trail that makes a gradual 3 mile climb from the creek up the ridge. Making a comparison of the elevation graphs on page 50 of the new guide versus previous guides clearly shows the change associated with this new trail. The new trail has been fully remarked with reassurance markers, however the reassurance markers may not be removed from the old trail yet.

With this new trail update, all new R2R Trail maps were created back in November 2019. These maps have also been incorporated into the new version 5.3 of the Official Trail Guide issued in January 2020.

The new maps from November 2019 have also been uploaded to the Trail Societies web site where they can be downloaded individually

All that remains is to update the maps in the Avenza map store which should get done in the next couple of weeks depending on how quickly Avenza will approve them.