Good Morning Fellow NCTr's:
Fortunately, the rain tapered off and finally stopped around 9:00 yesterday morning giving Lee, Doug, and I a chance to walk the mile of trail from the Possum Hollow Road parking lot down through Gamelands 148 to the Edwards Family farm. T'was a nice morning to be in the woods - nothing major in the way of blowdowns to be taken care of and we took the opportunity to carry out some preemptive strikes against the multifloral rose and poison ivy along this section. John has this section of trail in great shape already, so the pruning and lopping we did involved taking out these twin evils a few feet off of either side of the trail in anticipation of getting a head start on it for next spring. Some pics from yesterday start here http://picasaweb.google.com/105725471641034380528/WampumChapter2010TrailWork#5543106644935115698
Thanks to those guys for coming out.
Wanted to share with you an update on the Pittsburgh Hiking Meetup Group hike scheduled at Gamelands 285 for December 11th. It looks like they have thirty hikers signed up for that day, with another five on the waiting list to join - WOW! "More Feet Means Less Maintenance!" This is awesome! You can check out their event here http://www.meetup.com/pittsburghhikers/calendar/15372396/
Lastly this morning, the Clarion Chapter of the NCTA is holding their December hike on the 5th, on one of my favorite sections of trail - from the fire tower at Cook's Forest S.P. northward thru the park. You can see the details on that here http://www.facebook.com/pages/PA-North-Country-Trail-Association/248795517529#!/event.php?eid=124924850901180
Ok, really last, don't forget to get your reservation for the Wampum Chapter Christmas party in to JoEllen by the 29th of this month. It'll be held at Hitoe's in West Pittsburgh on December 6th and we need to let them know how many are coming.
Have a great day - thanks for all you do for the trail!
Dave Brewer
No comments:
Post a Comment