West Canada Lakes May 18-20 trail maintenance
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Eric Boxer
May 10, 2012, 4:21:54 PM5/10/12
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This just in from your conservation liason...
A great chance to volunteer and hike in the Adirondacks for a weekend!
All are invited to this year's annual train maintenance trip to the
adopted Adirondack wilderness area of the West Canada Lakes. Last
year, five of us joined up with a crew leader and helped clear over 4
miles of the Sucker Brook trail. The work invoved clearing downed
trees, removing brush that overlapped the trail and improving drainage
in muddy areas. This year should be much the same, and this year is an
especially important year for trail maintenance following the
aftermath of the storm last August.
The group will camp out for two nights (Friday, Saturday and possibly
Thursday as well) and hike each day to do trail work. Trail
maintanence can be quite strenuous because of the need to carry some
tools as well as camping gear. Most of the big trees will be cleared
with a chainsaw, so don't worry - no one will need to carry the double-
buck saw!
The DEC forester says he can, with one other staff member, provide
help and travel into the West Canada Lakes region via the Moose River
Rd on Friday May 18th. He would transport the volunteers in his truck
to the trailhead, work along us, then leave at the end of the day.
The volunteers (led by Paul) would then traverse the NPT trail,
cutting big, downed blockages, exiting on Sunday at Perkins Clearing.
This means leaving Rochester Thursday night (or very early Friday
morning), camping north of speculator Thursday night, meeting Paul and
the forester Friday morning at Pillsbury landing, riding with the
forester back around rts 30 and 28 to Inlet and the moose river road,
arriving at the trailhead on the northwest side of the West Canada
wilderness. Depending on the DEC staff work hours, this may mean
meeting the forester at 9 am or so Friday.
Total distance hiked could be 16 miles or so.
For more information, contact Eric Boxer (box...@gmail.com) or forest
Ranger Paul Weinstien.
Paul’s contact information:
Paul Weinstein
home: 518-459-2461
cell: 518-522-4431
e-mail: pwein...@nycap.rr.com
A great chance to volunteer and hike in the Adirondacks for a weekend!
All are invited to this year's annual train maintenance trip to the
adopted Adirondack wilderness area of the West Canada Lakes. Last
year, five of us joined up with a crew leader and helped clear over 4
miles of the Sucker Brook trail. The work invoved clearing downed
trees, removing brush that overlapped the trail and improving drainage
in muddy areas. This year should be much the same, and this year is an
especially important year for trail maintenance following the
aftermath of the storm last August.
The group will camp out for two nights (Friday, Saturday and possibly
Thursday as well) and hike each day to do trail work. Trail
maintanence can be quite strenuous because of the need to carry some
tools as well as camping gear. Most of the big trees will be cleared
with a chainsaw, so don't worry - no one will need to carry the double-
buck saw!
The DEC forester says he can, with one other staff member, provide
help and travel into the West Canada Lakes region via the Moose River
Rd on Friday May 18th. He would transport the volunteers in his truck
to the trailhead, work along us, then leave at the end of the day.
The volunteers (led by Paul) would then traverse the NPT trail,
cutting big, downed blockages, exiting on Sunday at Perkins Clearing.
This means leaving Rochester Thursday night (or very early Friday
morning), camping north of speculator Thursday night, meeting Paul and
the forester Friday morning at Pillsbury landing, riding with the
forester back around rts 30 and 28 to Inlet and the moose river road,
arriving at the trailhead on the northwest side of the West Canada
wilderness. Depending on the DEC staff work hours, this may mean
meeting the forester at 9 am or so Friday.
Total distance hiked could be 16 miles or so.
For more information, contact Eric Boxer (box...@gmail.com) or forest
Ranger Paul Weinstien.
Paul’s contact information:
Paul Weinstein
home: 518-459-2461
cell: 518-522-4431
e-mail: pwein...@nycap.rr.com
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