It was a beautiful and sunny, but COLD morning to be out on the North Country Trail today, but things warmed up with the walk, work, and conversation* as your trail crew made their way along almost a mile and a half of our pathway at Cemex. That section of trail is now in great shape - thanks to those guys for coming out with me for my much-needed escape to the woods! Winter sure did come on hard and fast this year!
Denny Duda, Bob Cody, Doug Turner, Lee and Eleanor Fairbanks, and I started off from the eastern Snake Run Road trailhead and headed east towards Sankey Hill, clearing the branch litter, cutting back multifloral rose, taking out a couple of small blowdown trees, and dragging down one potential widow-maker - finishing up with an exploration of the area around the haunted house.
I thought that it was especially neat that during our walk we were able to put into exact words an old trailwork axiom, being, "If you are walking along, and you are hit in the head by something, that something should probably be pruned, lopped, or sawed out of the way." Love it!
Some photos from today start here.
Thanks for all you do for the trail and have a Merry Christmas!!
Dave
* Topics of conversation today included, but were not limited to: Firetrucks, Santa Claus, gold mining, wine, other hiking trails, our website, precision tree removal options, kids coming home for Christmas, the unfortunate ease of removing fingers with power tools, roadwalk blazing, frozen beer, Marcellus shale and gas wells, finding old abandoned stuff in the woods, how much deer and other animals like to walk on the trail, arson, herbal remedies, coal mining, Google maps, the desire to build new trail in Lawrence County next year, limburger cheese and the dire effects it has on your digestive system, the marketing potential of a printed newsletter, and the danger of falling into a 20' deep well and not being found. Something for everyone!
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