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Long Path at Landing Road - continues

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LPLR 22-7 01

It‘s another wet Friday morning, Dr. Dave is going to improve the trench

LPLR 22-7 02

Lets improve the trench, then rebuild the trail

LPLR 22-7 03

Jeff digs a lot of rocks out of the trench

LPLR 22-7 04

The chief lends a hand widening the trench

LPLR 22-7 05

Russ and Dr. Dave start building new trail

LPLR 22-7 06

Saturday morning and we have seven volunteers

LPLR 22-7 07

On our way up to our current worksite

LPLR 22-7 08

Today we will build new trail and widen the trench

LPLR 22-7 09

Saturday morning and we are making great progress

LPLR 22-7 010

Terri just loves making crush

LPLR 22-7 011

This section is going quickly, lots of crush and lots of big rocks

LPLR 22-7 012

Using the rope puller to move the next big rock into place

LPLR 22-7 013

Russ uses a rock bar to muscle it into place

LPLR 22-7 014

Once it is in place, we will make sure it‘s level

LPLR 22-7 015

Here comes the crew using the four man sling

LPLR 22-7 016

It‘s not pretty, but gets the job done

LPLR 22-7 018

Saturday afternoon looking up hill

LPLR 22-7 019

That‘s Peter, our polecat for today

LPLR 22-7 020

We‘ll wait until tomorrow to move that big rock

LPLR 22-7 021

Always a pleasure to see young hikers out on the trail

LPLR 22-7 022

Our favorite spot for our end-of-day crew meetings

LPLR 22-7 023

Sunday morning and a little cool for late June

LPLR 22-7 024

Our shadow volunteer follows us everywhere

LPLR 22-7 025

As always, it‘s crush, big rocks and crush crush crush

LPLR 22-7 026

The next big rock is being delivered by hand

LPLR 22-7 027

That‘s our four-man sling in action

LPLR 22-7 028

There‘s always more than one way to move big rocks

LPLR 22-7 029

One hour later, that one and a couple more, are in place

LPLR 22-7 030

This time we used a hand truck to move a big rock

LPLR 22-7 031

By noon, we have several more rocks in place

LPLR 22-7 032

We hope this section will remain drier during future rain storms

LPLR 22-7 033

Further up the mountain, Samuel and Erik work on more drainage

LPLR 22-7 034

Samuel has mastered the fine art of making crush

LPLR 22-7 035

These big rocks will make perfect steps or landings

LPLR 22-7 036

It‘s the end of the weekend and time to tidy up

LPLR 22-7 037

Looking great, keep up the good work

LPLR 22-7 038

The stairs at the end of our last work trip

LPLR 22-7 039

Saturday‘s big rock has been moved

LPLR 22-7 040

Has been moved into place

LPLR 22-7 041

Also many other anchor rocks have been installed

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Ahh. Our crew meeting in the shade.



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