All seven of us, Val, Peter, Mark, Ryan, Jen, H, and my self, started off the second nine day hitch by pulling invasive species ( fancy for weeds). On the second day we were awarded “Ghostbusters” backpacks filled with herbicide and blue die, which I later found out was hard to get out of clothes. It was like a scene out of a Vietnam movie all of us in a straight line going down our separate rows looking for what we were told was, the bad guy. We continued this for three days and on Friday we hiked in on the North Fork trail for about three miles and pulled all sorts of thistle, mullen and other weeds. On Saturday the fun stuff started.
We are all here for the same reason…trail work. We had all been anxiously waiting for over a month to get our hands and Carhartts dirty. Finally, as I said, the fun stuff started. At seven in the morning we turned on to Merrell Mountain road had our thirty minute stretch circle and began building trail. On the first day we dug over 400 feet of trail. The second day we dug 150 feet of trail before lunch and after lunch we started installing water bars, which if you don’t know is a structure designed to promote proper drainage on a trail and to prevent erosion, we in stalled three of them. We continued putting in water bars until Tuesday. We also got wonderful news on Tuesday that we had been approved for a backcountry trip that involved a 9 mile hike in.
And that’s where our third journey starts.
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