Hiking in Vermont

 

Lots of great wintertrips on the calendar

Check the calendar for the many excellent winter trips - a few ski trips and lots of snowshoe trips of varying levels of difficulty

East Dorset Rail Closure

The East Dorset Trail, side trail to the Long Trail, is closed r/t the severe damage at three places on the trail. It is unlikely that the trail will be repaired and reopend

East Dorset Trail Closed due to Storm Damage

Hi all,

We are continuing to account for trail damage that occurred during the heavy rain event in April. The East Dorset Trail took a heavy hit and is completely washed out and impassable about 0.2 miles in from the Forest Service boundary. The river braided and took out a large section of trail and left deep, fast flowing water in its place. The attached shows before and after.

At this time, we are closing the trail and posting a notice for hikers coming from the East Dorset side. We need to further assess the damage, but we will be delayed in doing so due to the high volume of trail and road damage across the Forest coinciding with campground openings.

Please share the message to inform others of this safety issue and loss of hiking connection.

Thanks,

Emily

Emily Lauderdale, MLA Manchester District Recreation Program Manager Forest Service Green Mountain National Forest, Manchester Ranger District p: 802-362-2307 x7227 emily.lauderdale@usda.gov 2538 Depot St Manchester Center, VT 05255 www.fs.fed.us

Bromley Tower Update

 Thanks to the many donors who have contributed to this fundraising effort, we (Green Mountain Club Manchester Section) have reached our goal of $262,000. Next steps are to meet with Vt FP&R, ATC, GMC, and Bromley Ski area and get the stakes in the ground for the exact footprint of the new tower, then with the engineers to finalize design, and finally to submit our Act 250 permit papers. We are hoping for a fall 202 build, but it could be sometime in 2021.
As we know more, we will update you.

Current Manchester Section Officers

At our March 24th Pot Luck and Annual Meeting we elected our section officers for the next year.
Our Officers for April 2019 through March 2020 are as follows:
President - Marge Fish - marge.fish@gmail.com for any questions
Vice President - Katie Brooks
Secretary - Dale Malekoff
Treasurer - Alyson Gryzb
Trails and Shelter Chair - Dave Ratti - dbrspruce@gmail.com for any questions about joining us for trail works and trail projects
Board Representative - Bob Fish
Membership Chair - Ruthann Barrick

Taylor Series Slide Show and Talk

Preston Bristow Saturday, February 9, 7 p.m. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Hosted by the Manchester Section Vermont’s logging railroads lacked the scale of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, where no fewer than 22 logging railroads reached deep into old growth forests. Vermont also lacked villainous timber barons like New Hampshire’s J.E. Henry, the notorious White Mountain railway “wood butcher” famously quoted as saying, “I never see the tree yit that didn’t mean a damned sight more to me goin’ under the saw than it did standin’ on a mountain.” Yet logging railroads did penetrate the Green Mountains, and three are intertwined in the history of the Long Trail. No fee but donations to support the maintenance of the Long Trail will be welcomed the maintenance of the Long Trail will be welcomed.