A Trailwork Joke?

Breaking Through The Old Limestone Roadbed

Good Afternoon Fellow NCTr's:




So, a retail manager, two retired university professors, a minister, and a master carpenter walk into the woods. The bartender looks up from the glass he is polishing and says, "Hey, what is this, some kind of joke?" No, wait. Add breakfast at Jata's, a couple of 4"x4" posts that needed to be planted three feet down, a brand new spud bar, a relic of an old posthole digger (which did a really neat job), lots of sarcasm and absurd comments posing as actual statements of fact, and what you actually end up with is a great morning of laughing and trailwork on the North Country Trail.

My thanks to Jake Erhardt, Doug Turner, Bill Majernik, and Lee Fairbanks for joining me at the Route 18 and Possum Hollow Road trailheads this morning and for their hard work to put in two hiker journal boxes. The boxes have a notebook for hikers to jot down their impressions of and suggestions for the trail, NCT brochures, and an invitation to join the North Country Trail Association (along with some $23 sponsored-applications). On a side note, we could do a fundraiser involving charging people for us to dig three-foot-deep holes and then immediately filling them back in (only for people interested in paying for this kind of service, naturally). We're becoming well-practiced at this.

We also had some time left over this morning to trek on over to Snake Run Road and then Sankey Hill Road to do some repair work on the boxes and sign posts over there. And, we beat the rain home. A great day on the trail! Some photos here starting with one from the Chapter meeting last evening.

Tentative plans for trailwork next week are for Sunday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Details to follow. Thanks for all you do for the trail.



Dave Brewer