CMC Weekly Trail Maintenance  News

10/15/03

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Looking Ahead.......

Trail Maintenance scheduled for this week

Bill Newton's Work Crew-Friday 

I'm still working on what we should do this Friday - got a couple of things in mind, but need to check out some things first. So this Friday is our Surprise work day - I will be surprised if I get it together... Anyway, meet at the Food Lion in Mills River at 8 and we will work a bit, the go on to the fish fry the Park Service is providing us Please let me know if you will be working and eating this week. Bill Newton bnewton34@earthlink.net

Piet & Skip's Work Crew-Friday 

Anyone interested in joining the trail crews contact: Hendersonville area-Bill Newton, 828-693-4033, Brevard area-Dick Johnson, 828-884-3685, Asheville area-Skip Shelton, 828-891-3264 or Piet Bodenhorst, 828-298-8371. 

Adopt-A-Trail (Section) Maintainers Needed!

We currently have several sections on the Mountains to Sea Trail (MST) that would love to have a caring individual who can adopt a section of their very own. As a trail maintainer, you would be the MST's most important advocate and protector. In this role, you would become familiar with trail maintenance techniques so that you understand the big picture as you perform the simple, recurring maintenance and repairs necessary to keep the trail in good repair. One your most important duties would be the "eyes" and "ears" of your section. The section supervisors are responsible for all of the "heavy duty" work and should be contacted to perform trail work you would not feel comfortable doing. 

If you are interested please contact me or any of the following and we will explore finding just the right section of trail for you. Don Walton, walt7258@bellsouth.net , 828-298-5084, Stan Smith, ssmith111728@aol.com , 828-456-3042, D.R. Kulp, kulpdr@juno.com , 828-692-0783, Les Love, leslove@aol.com , 828-658-1489, Jorge Munoz, jmunoz@buncombe.main.nc.us , 828-658-0606.    

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Looking Back....

Bill Newton's Work Crew-Friday

This Friday we will work at Holmes State Educational Forest. We have some water bar and trail work to do there, and maybe check out a new bridge. Meet at the Holmes ranger station at 8. Remember the following week is the fish fry at the park service. As usual, please let me know if you will be out so I can plan tools. Bill

Piet & Skip's Work Crew-Friday 

Folks, Back to Balsam Gap this week. We will go in at the Grassy Ridge Mine Overlook and work South. This is the same area we worked on several weeks ago, but there is plenty of work left to do. We have a number more trees to cut, so Howard, please bring your saw. There is a bunch of narrow, sloping tread that got passed by last time that needs work and plenty of rock tread past that to work on. Piet and Skip bring sledges, others bring digging tools. Asheville folks meet at exit 44 of I-40 at 8:00, Hendersonville people at Ingles at 7:20. Please let me know if you are planning to come. Several other items of interest; 

1. Tom Hair is going back to Florida this week and will be staying there permanently. He will not be coming back to Hendersonville in future summers and so will not be working with us on the trail crew any more. We all wish Tom the best and hope he comes back to visit us every now and then. If you didn't get a chance to say good by to Tom last Friday, you might want to give him a call or drop him an E-Mail note.

2. As a reminder, the up-coming fish fry is a thank you from the Park Service for working on the MST trail. It will be held on October 17th at 12:00 at the Folks Art Center auditorium. I am sending in the list of folks who signed up, today. If for some reason, you didn't send me a note, and you are planning on coming, shoot me a reply E-Mail ASAP. If you already sent me a note, you don't have to send another one. Skip