Good Afternoon Fellow NCTr's:
My thanks to Doug Turner and Lee Fairbanks for coming out to Gamelands 285 yesterday morning for trail work, and to Josh Nard, from the Student Conservation Association in Pittsburgh, for joining us there. We had scheduled a meeting with Josh to talk about his offer of bringing a crew from the SCA out to help us with trail building next April, and thought that we could find some time to talk when we were done digging. The way it worked out is that we talked about the offer while Josh handled a pick mattock to help us to dig new sidehill trail for two hours. THAT's my kind of business meeting.
I didn't get a chance to walk off the yardage dug when we finished up, but we went FAR, and I think we're on track to have a nice piece of trail finished off for the community hike scheduled for the 24th. We put some thought and effort into staying up out of the wet areas along the little stream that runs down through there. More work now, but a better result in the end. Thanks again to those guys for their input on the routing and their hard labor to make that feasible. A few pics from the day start here http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2875102540098879960uTmsii
I'll get a schedule out for what's going on with trail work next week sometime later this weekend. Archery season for deer starts tomorrow in PA, so break out that flourescent orange if you are heading out to the woods. Thanks for all you do for the NCT.
Dave Brewer
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