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Piedmont Appalachian Trail Hikers
April 2005
April 2005 Work TripJohn Boy and Jim |
| The April work trip
was held at the Konnarock facility in Sugar Grove. We had 34 workers
on this trip. The following are projects that were completed or worked
on. 1. Installed Path Work shed at Konnarock. 2. Walked and GPS the Relo at I-77. 3. Spring Meetings with the ATC, USFS and PATH. 4. Chatfield Shelter-new rock step at Privy, rock steps 50 yards up stream from the Shelter, covered the bank of the privy with rocks, put in a rock wall behind the privy, built wall going up to the shelter, moved the fire ring and rebuilt it, moved the picnic table to its proper site, iceberg area, new tent pad, cut blow downs, removed a dam across the creek that was causing flooding, picked up trash. 5. Davis Path-put more mulch in the privy, filled privy bucket with mulch, cut 5 blow downs, cleaned up the trailhead. 6. Behind Rhonda’s-Route 11- Cut new relo with weed eater, cut limbs to close the old trail, picked up trash, cleared the area by stile at the top of the hill to make a view(cut sumac trees). 7. Walked area from Glade Mountain to Settler’s Museum--all clear. 8. Cleaned up trail head at Va. 617. 9. Planted trees at Va. 86 trail head. Herb MacDonald walked the trail from Va. 601 to the Partnership Shelter. -Cleaned up the area of trash. Herb found a spring north of the power line(50 feet from the trail.) 10. Blazed from the Settler’s Museum to I-81. The following workers worked this work trip. Days worked after their name. Bill Boudman-7 Jim Houck-8 Michelle Pruitt-2 Paul Haag-2 Jack Bookman-1 Ken Pugh-1 Dave Hiscoe-1 Doc Branham-1 Vaughn Thomas-1 John Hartpence-3 John Jaskolka-4 Brian Nalley-1(new Sanford area--photographer) Chris Bracknell-4 Rhonda Bracknell-2 Steve Lund-1 Andrew Mitchell-1 Susan Andreatta-! Herb MacDonald-1 Walter Trogdon-1 Mark Doty-1 Stephen Doty-1 Keith Morgan-1 Leah Perry-2 Danny Shields-2 Paul Clayton-1 Marie Minor-1 Barbara Council-1 Kim Wall-1 Jan Leitschuh-1 Martha Emrey-1 David Emrey-1 Phil Williams-1 Aubrey Arrington-1 Brian Hurt-2( new Winston-Salem) Saturday night Susan Andreatta coordinated another great Path buffet.
It was enjoyed by everyone.
Tuesday, 4/12, installed homemade step @ RXR near beaver dam 2.
Dinner = Venison steak, rice & green beans. |