Carolina Mountain Club

Hike - Save trails - Make friends

March 14, 2007

Hiking News | CMC Calendar

        Please send me your hiking news, hike and maintenance reports by Monday evening before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Monday evening March 26, 2007 to Danny Bernstein danny@hikertohiker.org. Include your email address at the end of your story. Thank you.

       The CMC Calendar is meant to answer the perennial question "When is this happening again?" It is also meant to prevent conflicts between competing CMC events. Please check it often.

       For CMC members only - Send all address and email changes to Jean Gard at jeangard@charter.net.

What's Happening in the Next Two Weeks

Saturday Work Day - Build another piece of the MST on March 24

What is involved in trail building? Find out by participating in our Saturday Work Day. We are building a section of the MST west of Balsam Gap and extending MST south of Balsam Gap to Soho Gap.

Please reserve Saturday, March 24 2007. We'll meet at the Moose Café next to the Farmers Market at 9:00 AM for car pooling (8 A.M. for breakfast) or at Blue Ridge Parkway mile marker 447 at 9:30 AM.

If you have tools bring them. If not, we will supply them. Please invite your friends and pass the word on to hiking clubs in your area. We guarantee a beautiful day, nice and refreshing ( we will be above 4200 ft.) A great day for the entire family to enjoy the out doors and give back a little for all the wonderful days we have enjoyed hiking.

For more information call- Piet Bodenhorst –828 298 8371, pietboden@bellsouth.net

 ---------------------- Back to Top

Hiking the Carolina Mountains Book Signing on April 10.

Danny Bernstein will be giving a slide show and signing copies of her new hiking guide, Hiking the Carolina Mountains on Tuesday April 10 at 7 P.M. at Diamond Brand Outdoors, 2623 Hendersonville Rd. in Arden, 828-209-1501, www.diamondbrand.com.

Earthfare South will be providing some great snacks.

Hope you all come. Danny danny@hikertohiker.org

---------------------- Back to Top

Needed:  Members With SmilesJ

The Membership Committee is looking for some friendly members to help at our booth at the Black Mountain Street Fair on Saturday, May 5.  The street fair will be a part of the Great Southeastern Festival which we are helping to sponsor that weekend.  We will be scheduling folks for two-hour shifts, and you will wear your hiking duds and have some fun meeting folks and answering their questions about our wonderful club.  Contact Ashok Kudva at Ashok.Kudva@mchsi.com or 828- 698-7119.

 ---------------------- Back to Top

New!! CMC Forum for members and Interested Parties

A forum software program has been installed on the CMC website. It is intended to be used by hikers and maintainers interested in communicating with each other about various related hiking and maintaining activities. Right now it is divided into 5 areas General, Hiking, 2nd Hand Gear, Challenges and Trail Maintenance. There are subdivisions for some of the areas like Hiking-Scouting and Hiking-General. Then different threads such as Hiking-Scouting-Linville Gorge hike #451 can be set up under these subdivisions. The different levels have the ability to be moderated by different moderators also different levels can be privatized so that only a certain group of people can communicate with each other such as the CMC Council.

Each person will need to register on the login page. You may use any username you want but you may want to use the same as your CMC Member User number. You will complete the questions and then the system will email you a password that you may logon with. This password may be changed later by going to the Control Panel button and changing your password.

Please fell free to make comments in the different categories and forum areas with suggestions for improvement or interests are also welcome. There is a “Forum” icon on the CMC website or click here: Forum . Have fun! Don Walton, Webmaster

---------------------- Back to Top

Conservation

What is your vision for the National Parks?

---------------------- Back to Top

From Land for Tomorrow

---------------------- Back to Top

Heard on the Ground

Adopt an MST Section

The following sections of the Mountains to Sea Trail are available for adoption:
FS Road 816 to Dark Prong Gap(1.6 miles),
Graveyard Fields Jct. 358B to BRP 417 ( Bridges Camp Gap) (2 miles)

These are all beautiful sections that provide great personal satisfaction in caring for them. Contact Don Walton at donwalton@bellsouth.net or 654-9904.

 ---------------------- Back to Top

Maintenance Reports created by Don Walton

 ---------------------- Back to Top

Heard on the Trail

It's Spring.

Taken at North Lake reservoir on the Paris Mountain State Park hike by Charlie Ferguson. 

 ---------------------- Back to Top