Maintenance News

Pictures from the Saturday Work Day - And work we did!
Bruce and hoist Barth and root The Love children

Alan Frank Sawyer and helpers Piet looking over the situation

From Barth Brooker

I'm relatively new to this business of trail maintenance, but it seems to me that many of the projects we are doing and have done in the past couple of months are in locations that would be available to us in the winter months. If these are all that remain on the list or we want to save on gas expenses, fine. However, it will be putting us in the position of calling off maintenance for all the crews for the winter which is also OK as long as we all agree on that being the direction
we want to go.

What do you all think? Barth

Look at the latest Closed maintenance items. This list is maintained by Don Walton.

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

CMC EASTERN TRAIL REPORT

Check: AT _ MTS X Other _
SECTION ID: GrayBeard to Craggy Visitor Center
                           Hours
                   Travel   Work   Total
Brooker, Barth       1        5      6
Walton, Don          1        5      6
Munoz, Jorge         1        5      6
Gearrick, Warren     1        5      6

Removed two trees between Graybeard and Douglas Falls Trail Junction. These were not on item list but we did have recent information indicating a potential problem. Also did some lopping.

Three more overhead trees were identified as needing removal and are on the list of trees down. These were unexpected and we did not remove them on this trip due to snow on the ground and lack of bar oil.

We plan on a scouting trip to identify the shortcut trail that will get us back to the downed trees and the junction for the Douglas Falls faster.

Great day for a hike

Barth

At 30 degrees in Weaverville and no wind a strong six headed out to the wilds of Street Gap and the fun of rocking and rolling on Progeoned Rd. We began where we left off two weeks ago to button up this one section of the long Big Bald to Street Gap Section. Our goal was to hit the short section along the large (unofficial) camp site below the steep hill. (1) We improved the access to the camp; (2) installed some much needed cribbing to hold the trail and cover dangerous roots; (3) removed roots in several areas on the trail and scouted north of the camp site. A good day with a lot of fast, heavy work under our belts...out at 1:00 PM and Official Report follows. Good day on the ice guys and thanks. JS