Good Progress on Section 8 – Feb. 22, 1014
One of our rare Saturday workdays produced a great team. We had seven Arkansas Wildlife students from Arkansas Tech in Russellville join seven traildogs working the finishing step in the construction of the final leg of the trail. It was a perfect day to be on the trail with temps in the low 70’s and a crystal clear sky. Were able to complete 8/10’s of a mile of finish work, which brought us up close to the trailing machine of the three machine crew from Progressive Trail Design.
We owe another deep word of thanks to Wayne Shewmake of the Arkansas Wildlife Federation for recruiting another fine group of young adults to help on the trail. We appreciate their driving down from Russellville for a day of raking and cutting. A special word of thanks to Ricky Lee and his Subway crew for preparing and donating the trail lunch for our fourteen person crew Saturday.
We welcomed new traildog Freddy Johnson to our team. Freddy immediately joined in, including quickly picking up the building of rock cairns along the trail so in the late fall, when we have the leaf drop, we will still be able to find the trail.
Our schedule for next week is as follows:
- Tuesday 2/25 – will meet at the Brady Mt. Trailhead parking area at 9:30 am
- Wednesday 2/26 – We will start at 9:30 am but will determine a meeting place after Tuesday’s work to see if we can find a shortcut into the work site.
We will then look at the weather for the balance of the week for a possible workday on Friday.
Thanks,
Jerry