NY-NJ Trail Conference

Long Distance Trails Crew

We Rock Your Trail

(157) 10/21, 22, 23/2022
Appalachian Trail relocation
on Surebridge Mountain - continues

Lake Skannatati in the fall

Generator and heavy tools ready for the Gator

A nice crew of seven out today

The Parks Department offered RJ and his Gator to carry our generator and heavy gear up the mountain

And away they go

Carrying a generator, ladder, rock shaping hammers, and the highline, griphoist etc.

The rest of the crew takes a hike through the woods

What a beautiful day for a hike

Chris installs a temporary turn blaze
on the existing trail

Supervisor Rich is at the ready to lend a hand

Watch this… No poles!
As Rich safely crosses Surebridge brook

Unloading the Gator at the worksite

Chris and Erik looking for the rest of the crew

Sandy getting her daily exercise while side-hilling.

The forest floor might look firm,
but sometimes it is not

Russ getting ready to use the hammer drill

We brought up a generator to run the hammer drill

We need a lot of holes to break this rock

Now it's Jeff‘s turn to use the hammer drill

More holes and more holes

Even Marion wanted to drill some holes

By the end of the day, that‘s a lot of holes

Next comes the feathers-and-wedges

Near crib-wall #2, Jeff tries to widen the trail

End of day walk out

Crew recap meeting in the parking lot

Saturday morning hike to the work sites

Terri starts side-hilling… again

Linda and Marci . side-hilling and more side-hilling

Jeff has a new nickname: 2-bit Jeff

Jeff using mind control to loosen the drill bits

Our 2 o'clock stand and stretch break

Tomorrow‘s project, break off that edge of the rock

Crew recap meeting in the parking lot

A chilly and cloudy Sunday morning

Today we are carrying the extension ladder,
we will use it to set up the high-line

Russ begins drilling holes for the feathers-and-wedges.

The LDTC approach to feather-and-wedges

Russ swings away but it's rock 1, Russ 0

Next it was Jeff‘s turn, Rock 2, Jeff 0

Russ doesn‘t give up, and swings even harder

Ahh. Success

Where's Jeff?. He's everywhere

Jeff tries to break some more off

While back at crib-wall #1, Russ continue drilling holes

Feathers-and-wedges are in

Slowly working our way from one end to the other

Russ strikes a musical tune on the feathers-and-wedges

North relo path will go across here

North relo section begins

It all starts with ribbons and side-hilling

We are going to build a crib-wall across the hillside

Doesn‘t look like much now,
but it will be great when we are done

And the weekend ends with crew recap meeting,
we will be back in two weeks