Post by percypeaks on Feb 25, 2011 7:49:11 GMT -5
Here are a few new hot buttons for the trail.
The folks at Garland Mill in Lancaster (waterpowered sawmill) want to help us build the new lean-to in the fall. They are donating the lumber and the North American Timber Framers Guild is providing the expertise to prefabricate the structure. Yet the Garland Mill gang indicated they would like to be a part of the team that actually builds the lean-to. That's wonderful.
The proposed Black Cat Trail that will be built this spring and early summer will be routed up and over a steep little knob just to the north of the Second Connecticut Lake boat-launch-access lane. It might be possible to gain a bit of a view from up there, and the knob will add a nice rugged little feature to the pathway.
Only about two miles of the long Covell Mountain Trail need to be cut this spring, down from the summit to Round Pond.
The long obliterated Deer Mountain Trail has been flagged and one can follow the flagging to the summit where the remains of the steel firetower still stand. It may be possible to open that trail, too, this year.
Got a $100 pledge to buy steel roofing material for the new lean-to. That buys four panels. Won't you pledge too?
Two new trail adopters have come forward to take on the East Side Trail in the Nash Stream Forest.
Chad Pepau, the TCTA vice president, wants to be the lead man on the lean-to construction project. That's a really good thing.
The interviews with the Outside Magazine freelancer, Kate Siber, is complete. She will be producing a feature article for the publication for the June or July issue. The focal point of her article is to be the trek from Route 110 to the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch.
Sugarloaf
The folks at Garland Mill in Lancaster (waterpowered sawmill) want to help us build the new lean-to in the fall. They are donating the lumber and the North American Timber Framers Guild is providing the expertise to prefabricate the structure. Yet the Garland Mill gang indicated they would like to be a part of the team that actually builds the lean-to. That's wonderful.
The proposed Black Cat Trail that will be built this spring and early summer will be routed up and over a steep little knob just to the north of the Second Connecticut Lake boat-launch-access lane. It might be possible to gain a bit of a view from up there, and the knob will add a nice rugged little feature to the pathway.
Only about two miles of the long Covell Mountain Trail need to be cut this spring, down from the summit to Round Pond.
The long obliterated Deer Mountain Trail has been flagged and one can follow the flagging to the summit where the remains of the steel firetower still stand. It may be possible to open that trail, too, this year.
Got a $100 pledge to buy steel roofing material for the new lean-to. That buys four panels. Won't you pledge too?
Two new trail adopters have come forward to take on the East Side Trail in the Nash Stream Forest.
Chad Pepau, the TCTA vice president, wants to be the lead man on the lean-to construction project. That's a really good thing.
The interviews with the Outside Magazine freelancer, Kate Siber, is complete. She will be producing a feature article for the publication for the June or July issue. The focal point of her article is to be the trek from Route 110 to the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch.
Sugarloaf