Seventeen volunteers turned out: 13 had and 1 earned their tartan. The 532 hours on trails is 111% of the average of the last 5 years pre-covid: 476 hrs. Our admin hrs = 168, outreach not trailwork = 54 hr, Total hrs = 754. DNCR values our work at $31.80\/hr, so that is $23,977.20.<\/p>\n
We patrolled 17 miles, cleaned 231 drains in Spring and raked 96 in Fall (DOT gated roads 11\/10), cleared 33 blowdowns, set 8 paver stones, blazed 0.2 miles incl. 6 blaze boards, dug 30 yards new ditch, R&R 3 log waterbars. Outreach is work for others, but actual trailwork for them is included in the 532 hours on trails.<\/p>\nOn Mt. Cardigan State Forest: 11 blowdowns
\nWest Ridge Trail, 60 drains. @ road, 20 pails gravel, barricade 0.2 mi. Rock step & waterbar. – 66 hr.
\nSouth Ridge Trail, 15 drains. Trim. – 11 hr.
\nRanger Cabin Trail, Trim. – 3 hr.
\nSkyland Trail, to Mt. Gilman – 12 hr.
\nMowglis Trail, Trim. – 8 hr.
\nTotal – 104 hr.\nOn Mt. Sunapee State Park: 13 blowdowns
\nAndrew Brook Trail, 46 drains x 2. 2 pavers. – 74 hr.
\nNewbury Trail, 24 drains, Trim. – 18 hr.
\nRim Trail, 25 drains x 2. – 8 hr.
\nSolitude Trail, 3 rock steps. – 55 hr.
\nTotal – 156 hr.\nOn Mt. Kearsarge (Rollins State Park, Winslow State Park): 9 blowdowns
\nWinslow Trail, 30 drains. Trim. Flag 17 jobs, 7 done 8\/19. – 103 hr.
\nRollins Trail, 20 drains. 90′ ditch. – 16 hr.
\nBarlow Trail, blaze YELLOW 6 blaze boards + ~ 24 trees, 0.2 mi. alpine zone, per A.C. – 13 hr.
\nTotal – 132 hr.\nOn Cole Pond Trail, Enfield NH, for NH F&G, 24 drains x 2.
\nTotal – 16 hr.\nOutreach:
\nMink Bk. Bridge w\/ Hanover Cons’y 77′ pine – 35 hr.
\nEnfield VTC 62′ in 7 bridges – 76 hr.
\nThe above 2 items counted in trailwork.
\nWMNF @ 03264 3 hr. Franconia Ridge working group 3 hr. OBP on NHSP land – 6 hr.
\nFireside Chat 8\/9 – 2 hr.
\nSPNHF Marlboro Trail 5-rock waterbar – 10 hr.
\nSLA cruise revetting – 6 hr.
\nBRATTs 1 hr. MSAC 2 hr. A.P. Trail (Upper Nature) 2 hr. Wildlands Trust seminar – 2 hr.
\nMSGTC 5 bog bridges Parker Hill 5 hr, Kittredge Hill 6 hr, ann Mtg 5 hr. Sunset Hill – 2 hr.
\nSummit Trail, Winslow Trail, Barlow – Trail – 11 hr. Total – 54 hr\nAdmin:
\nDNCR – 8hr.
\nWFA @ SOLO – 20 hr.
\nApply for Grants – 8 hr.
\nCHVTC ann. Mtg. – 18 hr.
\nTeam leader mtg @ 03279 – 6 hr.
\nEmails – 3 hr.
\nReports – 6 hr.
\nWebwrights @ 8 hr\/month – 96 hr.
\nTools – 3 hr. Total – 168 hr.\n
Downpours made us cancel three 3rd Saturday workdays. We worked around them and still got many jobs done, with more on the list for 2024. Wha’s like us? Few enough, but we welcome more.<\/p>\nRespectfully submitted,
\nCraig Sanborn
\nCHVTC Trailmaster\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seventeen volunteers turned out: 13 had and 1 earned their tartan. The 532 hours on trails is 111% of the average of the last 5 years pre-covid: 476 hrs. Our admin hrs = 168, outreach not trailwork = 54 hr, Total hrs = 754. DNCR values our work at $31.80\/hr, so that is $23,977.20. We…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worklog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/3122989675076394919-2-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}