Two Big Things*

* And a couple of little ones

Good Morning Fellow NCTr's:

Two big things - one a reminder and the other one something to make you aware of:

Our September Chapter meeting is this coming Monday evening (the 19th) at the hiker shelter at Watt's Mill - hoping you can make it out for the camp fire, hot dog roast, and pot luck. We have some awards from the NCTA National Conference to pass out, as well as conduct the monthly business. Dennis Garrett tells me that he'll be out there around 5:00 that afternoon so come early to enjoy that beautiful site along the North Fork of Little Beaver Creek. To coordinate the menu contributions please contact the Fairbanks at Fairbanks14@comcast.net and the Garretts at dcgcag@gmail.com. Should be a nice evening of North Country Trail comaradarie. How to get there? Here's a map.

Secondly, please set aside Sunday afternoon, September 25th, to come out and help paint Darlington. Well, not actually the town, but the blue paint blazes through town. The plan is to meet at 1:00 PM that day at the Greersburg Academy and then work for a few hours doing the paint blazing thru that area on telephone poles and sign posts. The NCT follows six miles of roadwalk between PA Rt. 51, through Darlington and New Galilee, to the Edwards Family Farm. With enough crew, paint, organization, and by utilizing a car-shuttle system we can probably knock out a big part of this project in one afternoon. The long-range weather forecasts looks fine, and the Steelers don't play until later that night, so here's a perfect opportunity to spend time helping our hikers get through this part of our trail range. Paint and brushes provided and no experience necessary - bring drinking water and a snack if you'd like. Also suggest wearing flourescent orange or day-glo if you have it as we'll be (obviously) working along the roadways.

Here's a map of what we have in mind, the mile segments in different colors http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200253697770480530268.0004ad0dd09364571cc3b&msa=0&ll=40.82654,-80.405159&spn=0.064038,0.1684

*As to the smaller things - Trail Work planned for Friday the 23rd at Mines and Meadows in the morning, Tuesday the 27th at Gateway in the AM, and Sunday, October 2nd at Gamelands 285 for the afternoon. I have them on the Event Calendar, and will be sending out reminders with the details as we get closer to those days.

Thanks for all you do for the NCT - hope to see you out for some or all of these!

Dave Brewer
Trail Work Coordinator