Good Evening Fellow NCTr's:
Another extraordinary day of accomplishment out at Indian Rock despite the temperature (I saw 95 degrees on the sign outside the bank in Darlington at 2:30), the humidity (we were all soaking wet within five minutes of starting to work this morning), and my misunderstanding of the situation (that hillside on the far end that we are using to get down is STEEP!).
Thirteen of us worked on digging a pathway half-way down the far side of the hill, and although Mother Nature issued several citations for failing to heed the law of gravity (some of us ended up sliding to the bottom of the hill while trying to scratch out a place for our feet) the end result is an excellent piece of sidehill trail. A lot of earth was moved as we had to cut back far into the hillside to make it work. One more day (and I'm making no 'steepness' predictions on this one - we'll see tomorrow) and we'll be to the bottom of the hill and ready for the finesse work and blazing.
Meanwhile, Pastor Mark Love and his crew of four did an amazing job of continuing to grub to within an easy hundred yards of the start of the new section. They cleared the overgrowth, took out the weeds, leaves, and saplings, and very professionally smoothed out the humps and bumps along the way, leaving an excellent pathway through the woods. Their work is every bit as good as what the Student Conservation Crew did last summer. Outstanding!
Some photos from today are here: http://community.webshots.com/album/578308086jqdcgb?start=24
Thanks goes out to Gail Blakely for coming out this morning to talk to the crew and appreciate them for their efforts, Rick Ostheimer and Jared Gess for putting their expertise, experience, and backs into the effort today, and again to the PA Game Commission GL285 crew (who we met up with again this morning) for their enthusiastic support.
Hope you can make it out to the Sterling Road trailhead tomorrow morning - thanks for all you do for the trail.
Dave Brewer
Another extraordinary day of accomplishment out at Indian Rock despite the temperature (I saw 95 degrees on the sign outside the bank in Darlington at 2:30), the humidity (we were all soaking wet within five minutes of starting to work this morning), and my misunderstanding of the situation (that hillside on the far end that we are using to get down is STEEP!).
Thirteen of us worked on digging a pathway half-way down the far side of the hill, and although Mother Nature issued several citations for failing to heed the law of gravity (some of us ended up sliding to the bottom of the hill while trying to scratch out a place for our feet) the end result is an excellent piece of sidehill trail. A lot of earth was moved as we had to cut back far into the hillside to make it work. One more day (and I'm making no 'steepness' predictions on this one - we'll see tomorrow) and we'll be to the bottom of the hill and ready for the finesse work and blazing.
Meanwhile, Pastor Mark Love and his crew of four did an amazing job of continuing to grub to within an easy hundred yards of the start of the new section. They cleared the overgrowth, took out the weeds, leaves, and saplings, and very professionally smoothed out the humps and bumps along the way, leaving an excellent pathway through the woods. Their work is every bit as good as what the Student Conservation Crew did last summer. Outstanding!
Some photos from today are here: http://community.webshots.com/album/578308086jqdcgb?start=24
Thanks goes out to Gail Blakely for coming out this morning to talk to the crew and appreciate them for their efforts, Rick Ostheimer and Jared Gess for putting their expertise, experience, and backs into the effort today, and again to the PA Game Commission GL285 crew (who we met up with again this morning) for their enthusiastic support.
Hope you can make it out to the Sterling Road trailhead tomorrow morning - thanks for all you do for the trail.
Dave Brewer
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