These days, there’s plenty of work behind the scenes, when it comes to trail work. This past Sunday, Irene Garvey and I hiked Ledge Trail and Pasture Path, in preparation for filing the necessary wetlands application with New Hampshire’s Departments of Environmental Services. Irene GPS’ed the location of river crossing and any wetlands. We noted [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Behind the Scenes
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ledge Trail, July 10th
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Each year, RMC undertakes one erosion control project on the more wild, remote trails– and one closer to home, often to one of the scenic spots around our mountain town. This year, that project is the Ledge Trail and Pasture Path, two trails that head towards Lookout Ledge. Eighty percent of the cost of the [...]
Israel Ridge, July 8th
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On one of the hottest and most humid days of the year, RMC President Jamie Maddock and I decided to go for a trail run, and visit the crew on Israel Ridge Path. We ran up Castle Trail, then Israel Ridge which, for those of you who know the trail, is pretty hard to run.. [...]
July- Rockwork
Posted in Summer Trail Crew 2008 on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With half the crew up on Israel Ridge (expect an update from them this weekend) things have become very quiet around the lodge and on the worksite only a short walk up from our tents. Rockwork, that is, the art of rolling and setting large chunks of granite that more often than not has a [...]
Patroling
Posted in Summer Trail Crew 2008 on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Patrolling isn’t that hard. An eight hour day of hiking the trails and either clearing blowdown trees with ax or chainsaw, or grubbing out ditches with a hoe generally gets old pretty quick. So you would think. Spending that much time with one other person (we go out in pairs each day) leads to endless [...]
