Gentlemen:
The annual Fish Fry is Friday October 21st this year at 12:00 noon at the Folk Art Center. I will need the names of the crew who will be attending. I suggest you send this to me via email sometime AFTER September 21...I will need the names of those planning to attend by October 14. Please make it sooner in that I will leaving for a trip to Pennsylvania on that date. This is a good outing wherein you can see, meet, kick and kiss anyone you know on the other crews but don't see much of....Thanks...JS Soldati,jr4152@bellsouth.net

MST Coordinator wanted!
The CMC position of Coordinator of the Section Maintainer System for the Mountains to the Sea Trail is open. This prestigious duty for the CMC includes supervising the 5 big sections of the MST (160 miles) which includes 100 volunteer section maintainers. The job is about 1/3rd recruiting of maintainers, 1/3rd communicating with all of the various federal and state agencies and 1/3rd management including recording and reporting all of the hours worked to various places. If interested, please contact Don Walton

The CMC has a Alternate MST section open. It goes from Cat Gap to Neil Gap 3.0 miles. The trail is in good shape and are waiting to start a love affair with an affectionate maintainer! If interested please contact Jim Tanquary, jdtanquary@juno.com or Don Walton at donwalton@bellsouth.net

Wednesday Trail Crew Report Sept. 21, 2005

7-Up today! and lots of work was achieved. We thank Mr. Munoz for sawing for the crew to put in 12 heavy silt-steps bars. Lots of heavy lopping and string trimming from above the falls to the cable crossing and back. Great day. Official Report follows. JS

Monday Trail Crew Report Sept. 19, 2005

CMC EASTERN TRAIL REPORT

Check: AT _ MTS _ Other X
SECTION ID: SNOWBALL TRAIL
                           Hours
                   Travel   Work   Total
Brooker, Barth       1        6       7
Gearrick, Warren     1        6       7
Greenawalt, Bruce    1        6       7
Munoz, Jorge         1        6       7
Walton, Don          1        6       7

Remove 13 trees from trail (can not find listed
on maintenance site; therefore, no item numbers listed).

Remove trees, weeds, brush, etc. from lookout
tower site.(again no items listed)

Steps at Craggy end of trail still need replacing;
therefore do not remove item 513 from list.

Spring will bring new growth to lookout tower.
We need steel blades on weedeaters. Barth

From: Don & Sharon Christensen [mailto:dlcsmc@charter.net]
Six crew members today: Charlie Hamburger, Dave Bair, David Roberts, Bill
Carr, Jorge Munoz, and Don Christensen.

Then drove to Ox Creek Road, hiked north about 5 minutes and removed a large blowdown that was blocking the trail.

From: "Howard McDonald" <hamcdonald@cytechcis.net>
Monday, September 26, 2005 4:44 PM

NEW SHELTER CONSTRUCTION
All of the roof sheathing was installed on the new Roaring Fork Shelter last weekend, September 24-25. We are planning to put on the green painted roofing next Sunday, October 2. The only items left to do on the shelter proper will be the pack pegs, the cooking shelf and the chinking between some of the logs. We still have a lot of dirt to
move from in front of the shelter to get the entry area at the proper level and to control water flow. With the blessing of the weather gods, we should complete the entire shelter site in early October so we can have the dedication later that month. Come look at it now or put it on your calendar for seeing at the dedication what has taken over three years to plan and build. Howard McDonald

Five of us worked on the new shelter over September 10 and 11 with four sleeping at the Forest Service road above the shelter site. We finished putting the logs in place for the end walls, installed the rafters and spliced together two logs for the ridge log. We also built the handicap accessible tent pad, trimmed the ends of the logs at the front of the shelter and sorted and prepared the purlin logs for installation. The next step is to put the ridge log in place which tops out the major construction. After that, put up the purlins, the roof sheathing and finally the roof. Two more two day
trips should get us close to completion. However, we still need to finish the rest of the tent pads, install the cooking shelf, move a lot of dirt, and build a north bounder entry trail before the entire site is finished. It won't be long!