Good Evening Fellow NCTr's:
Here it is! It's a veritable goldmine of information about the North Country Trail in Pennsylvania! This blog entry is worth at least twice the price you're being charged to receive it. Let's start with our trailwork plans for Tuesday, the 23rd.
We'll plan on going out Tuesday morning from 9:00 - 11:00 to walk the section we didn't get to check out last week at Gamelands 148 and the Edwards Family Farm. It will be a good opportunity to sneak up on that multifloral rose and poison ivy gone wild out there and get the trail whipped into shape. (There is so much poison ivy in that little clump of trees just off of Edwards Rd. that I think that John is out there putting fertilizer on it). We'll leave from the front of Jata's in Wampum at 9:00 and meet up at the Possum Hollow Road trailhead. Come earlier to Jata's for breakfast if you'd like.
Here's what went on this weekend along the trail:
Tim Ramsey, Jeff Murphy, Tom Scardina, and Lee and Eleanor Fairbanks traveled with me back to the "Big Hill" at Gamelands 285 and the Kirkwood Farm this afternoon and we spent two good hours exploring the hillside for a relatively easy route (to build and to hike) to the top of the hill. Found it! It looks good now and with some revisiting, revising, and tweaking it'll be excellent. We also spent a fair amount of time discussing and debating the relative merits of a couple of different spots to build a bridge to cross Painter's Run. Finally, the wisest one of the crew (Eleanor, naturally) suggested we stop speculating as to how high the water will rise and where it will flow in the spring after the snow melts and actually wait until the snow melts in the spring and see what happens before we make a decision. Another stellar suggestion! Thanks to those folks for coming out to offer their insight into the new section of trail. Can't wait to get started. Some photos from today start here http://picasaweb.google.com/105725471641034380528/WampumChapter2010TrailWork#5542164115208091186
On Saturday, in the far north part of the state, the Allegheny National Forest Chapter had a crew of twenty people put in a bridge over Beaver Run. Looks like they put in a quality bridge in about five hours. Outstanding! Photos of that project are here http://www.facebook.com/pages/PA-North-Country-Trail-Association/248795517529#!/album.php?aid=243980&id=248795517529
And earlier today, the Clarion crew joined John Stehle and his Tour De NCT group for an eight mile hike in Clarion County. Devin Callihan, the Chapter Communications Coordinator has a blog post about their expedition here http://northcountrytrail.org/cla/?p=151 Looks like they had a great turnout, and like us, excellent weather for being on the North Country Trail. I've been kind of waiting for Tammy Veloski's pics from the hike - I'll send them along when I get them (hint) 'cause she always takes good ones.
See, you'd probably pay three times the money anywhere else for all this good stuff on the North Country Trail. Hope to see you Tuesday at Possum Hollow Road. Thanks for all you do for the trail.
Dave Brewer
Here it is! It's a veritable goldmine of information about the North Country Trail in Pennsylvania! This blog entry is worth at least twice the price you're being charged to receive it. Let's start with our trailwork plans for Tuesday, the 23rd.
We'll plan on going out Tuesday morning from 9:00 - 11:00 to walk the section we didn't get to check out last week at Gamelands 148 and the Edwards Family Farm. It will be a good opportunity to sneak up on that multifloral rose and poison ivy gone wild out there and get the trail whipped into shape. (There is so much poison ivy in that little clump of trees just off of Edwards Rd. that I think that John is out there putting fertilizer on it). We'll leave from the front of Jata's in Wampum at 9:00 and meet up at the Possum Hollow Road trailhead. Come earlier to Jata's for breakfast if you'd like.
Here's what went on this weekend along the trail:
Tim Ramsey, Jeff Murphy, Tom Scardina, and Lee and Eleanor Fairbanks traveled with me back to the "Big Hill" at Gamelands 285 and the Kirkwood Farm this afternoon and we spent two good hours exploring the hillside for a relatively easy route (to build and to hike) to the top of the hill. Found it! It looks good now and with some revisiting, revising, and tweaking it'll be excellent. We also spent a fair amount of time discussing and debating the relative merits of a couple of different spots to build a bridge to cross Painter's Run. Finally, the wisest one of the crew (Eleanor, naturally) suggested we stop speculating as to how high the water will rise and where it will flow in the spring after the snow melts and actually wait until the snow melts in the spring and see what happens before we make a decision. Another stellar suggestion! Thanks to those folks for coming out to offer their insight into the new section of trail. Can't wait to get started. Some photos from today start here http://picasaweb.google.com/105725471641034380528/WampumChapter2010TrailWork#5542164115208091186
On Saturday, in the far north part of the state, the Allegheny National Forest Chapter had a crew of twenty people put in a bridge over Beaver Run. Looks like they put in a quality bridge in about five hours. Outstanding! Photos of that project are here http://www.facebook.com/pages/PA-North-Country-Trail-Association/248795517529#!/album.php?aid=243980&id=248795517529
And earlier today, the Clarion crew joined John Stehle and his Tour De NCT group for an eight mile hike in Clarion County. Devin Callihan, the Chapter Communications Coordinator has a blog post about their expedition here http://northcountrytrail.org/cla/?p=151 Looks like they had a great turnout, and like us, excellent weather for being on the North Country Trail. I've been kind of waiting for Tammy Veloski's pics from the hike - I'll send them along when I get them (hint) 'cause she always takes good ones.
See, you'd probably pay three times the money anywhere else for all this good stuff on the North Country Trail. Hope to see you Tuesday at Possum Hollow Road. Thanks for all you do for the trail.
Dave Brewer
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