Some 27 members of the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association picked up mattoxes and pulaskis to help the Dartmouth Outing Club after the Gathering with a work trip that involved clearing trails around Ravine Lodge at the base of Mount Moosilauke in New Hampshire. In photo above, “Put” of the Dartmouth Outing Club leads the way to work on the first morning from Ravine Lodge, in background. We also spent a day peeling logs, moving field stones and adding a few layers to the new stone shelter that will replace Happy Hill Cabin in Vermont.
We cleared out several huge stumps from a new trail that had been cut a couple of years before on the slopes of Mount Moosilauke. On another day, members built a new stone bridge, installed new stone waterbars and made a few wet areas of trail a lot drier. From left are Marty Trepanowski, David Walp, Jim Wilson, Brian Dabkowski and Joshua Dhaseleer, who thru-hiked the A.T. this past year as “Redwood.”
Taking time out for lunch are Eric Olson and Tracey Williams, who enjoy the bag lunches that the croo at Ravine Lodge prepared for our group each day before we headed out.
Joe “Cool Breeze” Fennelly, who volunteers for work on the Long Trail frequently, was quite handy with his mattox on the stumps in the new trail. Also participating in the work trip were Albie Pokrob, Brian Dabkowski, Jack Spalding, Randy & Jen Grantham, Dennis & Mary Webster, Marty Trepanowski, David Walp, Tracey Williams, Eric Olson, Joshua Dhaseleer, Ben Anderson, Mary Anderson & Mark Anderson, Dieter Gerschwitz, Jim Wilson, Russell Shaw, Andrew & Beth Meyers, Frea Kline, Bert Gilbert, Lesya Struz, Joris Naiman, Joe Sobinovsky and Bill O’Brien.
ALDHA members settle down to their tables for breakfast inside Ravine Lodge before heading out to work on the mountain, which looms outside the top windows, above.
