Good Evening Fellow NCTr's:
In addition to our accomplishments of Friday and Saturday, which I have already related, the last couple of days have been pretty good for the Wampum Chapter and our section of trail. Bob Cody reports that he and Denny Dudda were out at Cemex on Sunday morning taking out a couple of deadfall trees and doing some finesse work with the weedwacker. Good to go between River Road and Tony Dytko.
Then Sunday afternoon the weeds and thorn bushes along the 300 yard, edge-of-the-field walk on the west side of Watt's Mill Road got the thrashing of their pathetic plant lives, opening up that always-troublesome stretch of trail to "easy hiking". In the evening Dennis and Cathy Garrett and I headed out to the old iron bridge at the Sterling Road trailhead and were able to grub and dig sidehill for 30 yards eastward to start off our planned, new, quarter-mile of trail. We're on our way to Indian Rock! (The bugs were TOUGH - when you come out for trailwork be sure to bring some insect repellent).
This evening we had a very successful wienie roast/potluck picnic/Chapter meeting at the shelter at Watt's Mill. The bugs knew better than to trifle with us today as we were ready for them. Fourteen Chapter members and friends made the trip out for a very enjoyable evening. A poll was taken, then the votes were meticulously tabulated, and it was agreed that next month's meeting (Monday, August 16th) will be the same arrangement in the same location. Sounds like a good plan. Thanks to Dennis for ably filling in for Lee and to everyone who came out and made the evening a success. Some photos here:
Have a great week - hope to see you on the trail,
Dave Brewer
Dave Brewer
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