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8/17: Andrew Brook Patrol
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…
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19th Annual Monadnock Trails Week, Sept. 4-8
Monadnock Trails Week is a collaboration betweem the Society for the Protection of NH Forests, and NH State Parks. The goal is to protect, improve, and promote the trails of the Monadnock Region. Monadnock Trails Week has been an annual event since 2006. CHVTC will be there working on the Marlboro Traul. For complete details…
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7/26: Check Marks on the Winslow Trail Job List
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…
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7/24: Rollins by Pick & Shovel
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…
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7/19/25: West Ridge Trail, Swapping Out Old Broken Fir Log Steps for New Ones
Halfway up Mount Cardigan’s West Ridge Trail, in the woods, ’twas rather cool on Saturday morning. We were a crew of three: Ben, Andrew K., and TM Craig. We were an hour hiking to the jobsite, then took hand tools into the woods in search of the wily and shy 10″ fir tree. On finding…
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7/18/25: A New Waterbar for Winslow Trail
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…
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Sat 7/12 West Ridge Trail; Logs & Hikers & Bridges, Oh My!
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…
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Work Trip Report: Winslow Trail Sat 6/21
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…
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CHVTC Summer Jobs
Hello Trail Crew, Trails are drying out now we have more sunny days than rainy ones. The State Bird has retreated for this year. Trails we tend on Mt. Sunapee are not beyond brooks in flood. NH DOT opened the gate to Mt. Cardigan on May 29. Five of us are now State-certified sawyers; Bob,…
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