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Fri 8/28: Mt Sunapee Solitude Trail, 16′ 2-Span Bridge Built
A timeline format seems to describe this job, which was a month in preparing. The ledge it bypasses is ~ 100 yards towards White Ledges from the summit road. Fri 7/31: 3 hr. View, measure, sketch, plan. Text Tim, Pres. of MSGTC (Monadnock Sunapee Greenway Trail Club). He approved this job. Mon 8/3: Order hemlock for…
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8/20/26: West Ridge Trail, Rock Steps in Gully
Back on the heavily impacted West Ridge Trail, 0.3 miles up the trail, there was a longish herd path beside four rock steps in a gully, and several stones the glacier did inconsiderately leave at angles awkward to walk. Four volunteer Cardigan Highlanders were enough people to make this site more attractive to walk by…
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8/14&15: Two Days on Cardigan
8/14 Patrol & Prep on S Rdg Tr So, Friday 8/14 I arrived at Mt Cardigan State Park by 0900. What with passing out the map to 8 or 10 parties of hikers, plus outreach to them, I started up the trail about 1030. Got to S Rdg Tr jct around 1130, had lunch, hiked…
Read More8/6 West Ridge Trail: R&R 6′ Log Step
Thursday 8/6 was another humid hot day. I arrived Mt Cardigan State Park,by 0900, and I quit by 1200. Spent a while greeting hikers and passing out the free maps from State Parks. Fewer than half had any map at all, even AllTrails on a phone. The State map includes info about blaze colors and…
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8/1 Mt. Sunapee Work Trip: Signs Are Good for Andrew Brook Trail
On the first day of August 2026, a crew of two, Team Leader Scott MacFaden and ace volunteer Sean, ascended the Andrew Brook Trail from the Mountain Road trailhead. Our charge for the day was to focus on the section of the trail above the 3rd brook crossing, as other crew members had recently tended…
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7/20 West Rjdge Trail: Stopping a Waterbar Turning into a Herd Path
On Mount Cardigan’s West Ridge Trail, 0.3 miles uphill, hikers thought a drainage ditch was a fine path. After 2 hours with a shovel and 5′ loop of 1″ webbing, barricading was installed and the drainage ditch was restored. It may get their attention… 🤨. Craig Close up of trail (L), then barricade, then log…
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Do you know the way to Newbury? Just ask Jack and June.
On July 17, two Cardigan Highlanders, Dave & Craig, took advantage of the perfect weather and went up Jack and June Junction near the top of Mount Sunapee. Sitting at the convergence of the Newbury Trail and Solitude Trail / M-S Greenway, this is an important signpost directing hikers where they want to go. They…
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July 9, 2026: Erosion Mitigation on Mount Cardigan
Two senior volunteers, Jim and Craig, built a rock wall on Mount Cardigan’s West Ridge Trail to keep soil on the trail rather than let hikers wear another herd path and see the tread creep downhill. Rocks in trench beside trail hold soil on it. Trail is now twice as wide, yet more durable. 2…
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6/17/26: Andrew Brook Trail Patrol
By 1100 on Wed 6/17, two of us started up Andrew Brook Trail in Newbury NH. We hiked to where a short relocation climbs a ridgetop to K Bridge. Hikers are heeding barricades we added last September and staying on the new path, causing less erosion. We added two more blazes just to guide them even…
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