Day Two.

The cake says it all.

Handing out Deans 25 year service award.

Theo digs in to set a rock step.

Davis Path Shelter before.

Davis Path Shelter during.

Davis Path Shelter....now platform.

Along with the dinner festivities on Thursday night, the crew celebrated Konnarock's longest Volunteer, Dean Sims 25th year of Volunteering. Dean was awarded a 25 year service award from the ATC in addition to an award for working over 7000 hours!! for the United States Forest Service. The crew is truely grateful for Dean's work over the years and look forward to his involvement for years to come.

Meanwhile, the crews got off to a rainy start yesterday but by midmorning the clouds had parted and crews got to work on their respective projects (while drying out). Crew 1 was able to finish their project for the week by the second day (dismanteling the Davis Path Shelter)! Christine and crew will now head off to do trail rehab for the remainder of the week. Crew 2 is still plugging away at the Route 859 project and anticipates completion by the weeks end.

Cheers,

Kerry

Day One.

Meet Doug, meet Doug's Jug..

All smiles.

Well, not from today but pretty cool anyway.

Day one has come and gone here at Konnarock Base Camp. After a gigantic meal of fried chicken, sides and desert courtesy of the Mount Rogers AT Club and the Piedmont Appalachian Trail Hikers (PATH), several folks are ready for bed. However, a core group of Volunteers, new and old, are having fun telling stories of the day and of times past. A great time to be at camp indeed.
Enjoy the photos,

Kerry

2008 T-Shirt (this is what you get for sweating).

It's a bit more subdued than last years design but the white blaze really stands out! I'd like to thank Noland Hisey for the great design and Aerie Designs of North Carolina for printing them up.

See ya in a week!

Kerry

Trail Days, Damascus, Virginia Hiker Parade

Are you heading to Damascus for Trail Days this year? How about helping out with carrying the Konnarock Trail Crew Banner in the Hiker Parade? I'd love to get some crew alumni to wave the flag and represent the crew; we are an integral part of the AT!!

Anyway, if you are interested in helping out, please contact/email (kwood@appalachiantrail.org) me before Trail Days. We'll meet up at 1pm at the ATC tent on Saturday, May 17th and head over to the parade start.

Thanks!

Kerry

We got the skillz (aka Boo-ya)...

This is a strange post I must admit. The crew just got back from doing their SORO (Southern Regional Office) project checks (Tennessee south). We've been busy doing training; getting prepped for the season etc and we'll soon have more pictures to post…..

But, for now it's time to gloat, hold our heads up high and say a big nanny-boo boo to Mr. Boudman…He said it couldn't be done, he said we'd hit the privy or the shelter (or both) and he even laid a big, fat $1 bet on it. Well Bill, check the pictures, that's all I can say…

(For those that have no idea what we're talking about (probably 99.9% of you), we're referring to a bet from a club member that when we took down the old, severely leaning-towards-the-shelter Black Locust (that's a tree), it would hit either the shelter or privy. As you can tell from the pictures below, we did neither).

I want my dollar!!

Kerry

Red arrow: where the tree is leaning White arrow: a good 4-5' of side lean towards the shelter

Pretty small gap for a really odd shaped tree (I hope I don't hit the privy or I'm out a dollar!)

Tree size-up

Hmmmm, looks like I made myself some sweet cash (I can buy 1/3 gallon of gas!)

Here's my dollar, where's yours?

Yeah! Vroom! Yeah!

Basecamp Clean-Up 2008 a Success!

Painting the exterior of the Kitchen

Janet on the way to the next project

The woodshed on the move

Well, another Basecamp Clean-up has come and gone ending in great success! Over 20 Volunteers spent a week cleaning up camp for the coming season and doing some projects to further spruce up the place including repairing electrical in the pods, moving the woodshed and painting the kitchen (inside and out).

A big THANK-YOU goes out to everyone involved in addition to Trail Crew Leader, Christine Hoyer for leading the charge!

Thanks all,

Kerry

Still Looking...

Due to late-breaking events, we're currently looking for an assistant crew leader for the season. If you know of anyone possibly interested, let us know! We promise good times and great views!

Thanks,

Kerry
kwood@appalachiantrail.org
540.953.3571