Trail work outings completed for the opening of summer hiking

Manchester section has completed 5 trail work days this month. As a result all the blowdowns have been removed and all the water bars (for drainage) have been cleaned out on our section of trail from Rt 11/30 to Griffith Lake. many thanks to all the adults who came out to work, the Mountain School at Winhall  students in grades 5-6-7-8 who came out to work, and the Burr Burton sophomores who built a new drainage ditch including some fine rock work.

Trail Work Day

We had a great trail work day today, organized by our trails and shelter chair, Dave Ratti. Nine of us headed out with our hoes and other digging tools and hiked in from the end of FR 58 to Griffith Lake. We hiked south on the Long Trail from Griffith Lake, clearing water bars, until the summit of Peru Peak. After a well earned lunch we continued working on water bars as well as some clipping back of spruce branches until the summit of Styles Peak.
Because the remainder of the way back to Mad Tom Notch is going to have the water bars cleaned by a school group we simply walked the rest of the way out, enjoying a well earned rest from further work.