Post by percypeaks on May 27, 2010 15:28:24 GMT -5
On the first Thursday and Friday of June we will be installing puncheon spans (bog bridges) over 300 feet of terrain in the forests just north of First Connecticut Lake and just west of Coon Brook. We will be at work on the Camp Otter Trail and will keep at it until we put in the long chain of puncheons in soggy country underfoot.
Anyone who would like to join us should call 603-538-6777 and make arrangements to meet us and, if you like, stay for free at Mountain Bungalow for a night or two.
We hope to finish the work installing the spans and then open the 3.3 mile trail for foot traffic from Camp Otter Road to Magalloway Road.
It's possible that on the Friday before, volunteer young people from Pittsburg and Clarksville will give us a hand moving several big wooden trusses about a quarter mile through the spruce down to a crossing a Big Brook. Once those trusses are in, they can be planked over, connecting the Moose Alley Trail to the now complete Falls in the River Trail.
Once the puncheons and the bridge are in place and a short puncheon over Dry Brook is installed, the first major step in fifteen miles of new linked trail in the Connecticut River headwaters will be complete. Hikers can then tramp from Camp Otter Road all the way to Second Connecticut Lake Dam and beyond to Idlewidle Rd (that runs to the boat launch on Second Connecticut Lake with its wonderful view). That will eliminate nearly eight miles of road walking.
We also have permission to finally finish the Mt. Prospect Trail. The last landowner we needed to give the nod finally agreed to host the trail on a 600-foot property boundary. In a matter of days that trail will be complete from Danforth Road and Mountain Bungalow to Ramblewood Cabins and Campground, about two long miles in length. In the middle of that trail is the sweeping 40-mile view from the open summit.
So things are coming along extremely well thanks to Pete and Lainie Castine and a cast of hard working volunteers.
--percypeaks
Anyone who would like to join us should call 603-538-6777 and make arrangements to meet us and, if you like, stay for free at Mountain Bungalow for a night or two.
We hope to finish the work installing the spans and then open the 3.3 mile trail for foot traffic from Camp Otter Road to Magalloway Road.
It's possible that on the Friday before, volunteer young people from Pittsburg and Clarksville will give us a hand moving several big wooden trusses about a quarter mile through the spruce down to a crossing a Big Brook. Once those trusses are in, they can be planked over, connecting the Moose Alley Trail to the now complete Falls in the River Trail.
Once the puncheons and the bridge are in place and a short puncheon over Dry Brook is installed, the first major step in fifteen miles of new linked trail in the Connecticut River headwaters will be complete. Hikers can then tramp from Camp Otter Road all the way to Second Connecticut Lake Dam and beyond to Idlewidle Rd (that runs to the boat launch on Second Connecticut Lake with its wonderful view). That will eliminate nearly eight miles of road walking.
We also have permission to finally finish the Mt. Prospect Trail. The last landowner we needed to give the nod finally agreed to host the trail on a 600-foot property boundary. In a matter of days that trail will be complete from Danforth Road and Mountain Bungalow to Ramblewood Cabins and Campground, about two long miles in length. In the middle of that trail is the sweeping 40-mile view from the open summit.
So things are coming along extremely well thanks to Pete and Lainie Castine and a cast of hard working volunteers.
--percypeaks
