Carolina Mountain Club
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January 29, 2010
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| Upcoming Hikes | Hike Reports |Maintenance Schedule |
| What's Happening in the Next Two Weeks | Help in the Haitian relief effort |
| Other Important News | Spring social on April 24 |
| Interview | Barth Brooker, CMC's president |
| Conservation Matters | Meet the Nature Conservancy |
| Heard on the Ground | Trail sections up for adoption |
| Heard on the Trail | Falls Lake Recreation Area |
| The Small Print | Deadlines, change of addresses and other details |
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From Your Editor The weather outside can be frightful - snow, ice, rain with 40 deg. temperatures. What can a hiker do? This might be the time to check your hiking equipment, make sure you have maps of all the places we hike, get a couple of new guidebooks, and most important, stay in shape with regular exercise. Hang in there! Spring will come! Danny What's Happening in the Next Two Weeks CMC Council Meeting All members are invited to come to a CMC council meeting. The next one will be on Feb. 11 in the evening. If you're interested, contact the president, Barth Brooker.
Help the Haitian Relief Effort Park Ridge Hospital in Hendersonville is sending a chartered plane to Haiti. They are appealing for sleeping pads. Old but usable ones are fine Diamond Brand Outdoors have agreed to be a drop off point.Now that's a good deal. The first wave of mats will go out Friday but this will be a sustained effort until approximately under the middle of February. So check out your hiking stuff and see if you could spare a mat. Save $20 on a TN Appalachian Trail License Plate If you live in Tennessee, this is for you. A grant from the Eastman Chemical Company Foundation is allowing the Appalachian Trail Conservancy to underwrite discounts on the fees for the next 500 people to apply for an Appalachian Trail license plate in Tennessee. Once 1,000 applications are received and the state begins producing tags, ATC’s share of the renewal fees will serve as a permanent funding source for the organization's work to protect and maintain the 280 miles of the Appalachian Trail in the state. As a result of the grant, the Appalachian Trail license plates are now available for $15 instead of the usual $35 annual fee. Renewals will be at the standard $35 annual fee. ATC is offering its own incentive as well, thanking people who sign up for the license plate with a one-time annual membership to the national nonprofit. Existing ATC members may give someone else the membership as a gift. The specialty A.T. license-plate program will benefit the state’s natural resources and national treasure in several ways. It will broaden awareness for this resource by widely promoting the Trail on vehicles from Memphis to Bristol. In addition, each plate will generate $15.56 annually for ATC, supporting management of such programs as land conservation, volunteer-based trail and facilities maintenance, natural-resources management, and programs that introduce children and teachers to the A. T. in Tennessee. For more information and an application to take advantage of this offer, call ATC at (828) 254-3708 or go on line to www.appalachiantrail.org/tnlicenseplate. CMC Spring Social Looking for Musical Talent Our Spring Social will again be held this year at the beautiful North Carolina Arboretum on April 24 with 2 hikes, lots of visiting with each other, and a delicious barbeque meal. If you would like to perform by yourself or in a group, or know someone that has the talent, but needs to be asked, please let me know. We'll be putting this together over the next couple of months and I think it will make for a fun evening. We'll get to see another side of our friends and fellow-hikers. I'm excited! Les Love lesrlove@charter.net
Meet Barth Brooker, President of CMC
We moved to Asheville about seven years ago and I joined CMC almost right away. Read the whole interview with the new president of CMC.
Meet the Nature Conservancy
Adopt a Section of the A.T. None at this time. Adopt a Section of the MST Old Bald Access to Richland Balsam Access, 4.4 miles, section maintainer needs an assistant Richland Gap Access to Richland Balsam Access (3 Trees) 1.2 miles If you're interested in either the A.T. or MST, email Don Walton. Maintenance Reports created by Don Walton
Falls Lake Trail
The trail basically follows the ins and outs of the lake and is much gentler than the mountains. It was not balmy. The lake was frozen in places which is highly unusual. It gave us a chance to walk the MST outside of the mountains. Look at my blog for details. Danny
The eNews comes out on Fridays. So ... The next issue will come out on Friday, February 12. Wednesday hike reports for the hike just before the eNews comes out will be published in the next eNews. Hiker leaders, please send all your eNews hike reports and photos to Dave Wetmore at dwetmore@citcom.net So send me your news and maintenance reports by Tuesday evening at 9 P.M. before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Tuesday evening February 9, 2010 to Danny Bernstein at danny@hikertohiker.com. 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. How to join the Carolina Mountain Club If you are a non-member subscriber, you need to go back to the | ||||||
Danny Bernstein
danny@hikertohiker.com
For our program, we're looking to enjoy the musical talent of some of our own members.
How did you get involved with CMC?
Tired of the road closures, downed trees and threat of more bad weather,