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Four Cardigan Highlanders convened on a warm and hazy Sunday August 17 at the Andrew Brook trailhead in Newbury: Trailmaster Craig Sanborn, Team Leaders Scott MacFaden and Bob Humphrey, and newer crew member Andrew Koo. Our primary goals for the day were to clean drains (and redig them where needed) from the second crossing of Andrew Brook…

Today we again took advantage of cooler temps higher on the NW aspect of Mount Kearsarge, and under the canopy of summer leaves. We were two, TL Scott and TM Craig. We worked our way uphill, doing work needed from a new trail inventory of July 8, 2025. These inventories list present and needed fixtures…

Time for a change in  focus. No trees to harvest or planks to lug, just a few rocks to move. Thursday 7/24 was over 90 in the valleys, but much cooler at 2600′ in the shade of spruce trees. By 1000, two of us, Chuck and TM Craig, hiked 0.2 miles up Rollins Trail to add a side…

As we all enjoy 70s and a NW breeze after weeks of 90s and stifling humidity, Kevin and TM Craig had three hours this morning. We hiked uphill over many fixtures built by us and by two earlier crews until we came to the first flag from our survey of 2023 that was as yet…

Today’s crew was two: Ben and TM Craig. We toted pick, shovel, screw gun, and hammer uphill around 0930. We also lugged 2 2x6x8′ KD premium planks. We came to log steps uphill of the flat beyond Firepond Brook around 1015. There we recovered logs we left there on our last workday 7/3, an 8′ and a…

On this day, three of us were able to work four hours before departing for other chores. We worked uphill of the guest crew, Trailwrights. We added another 130′ of barricade. We do not like looking at it any more than we do bringing dead trees and building it. However, nothing less seems to deter tourists…

Volunteers turned out in good numbers, eight of them: Dustin, Ashley, Ben, Jon, Andrew K., Bill, TL Scott, TM Craig. The light rain was not so apparent under the thick canopy of summer leaves, and up they went. In six hours they… 1) Raked and re-dug all 24 drains; 2) Barricaded 6 herd paths, some for the second time;…

Thursday 6/5 two of us returned to barricade where hikers have started to wear a herd path across a zigzag. We harvested several dead fir trees from the woods upslope, plus were able to saw down a dead standing birch tree with our folding handsaws. We wove the small fir trees among the trees beside the…