NY-NJ Trail Conference

Long Distance Trails Crew

We Rock Your Trail

(158) 11/4, 5, 6/2022
Appalachian Trail relocation
on Surebridge Mountain - continues

Early Friday morning and the cart is loaded

Joe has a good grip on the situation

The rest of the crew follows behind

The soon to be ‘northern section‘ of the A.T. relo

Erik clearing a blow down from the ‘northern section‘

Dan drills more holes near the first crib wall

More holes mean more feathers and wedges

And the rock still won‘t break off

Wedges are in and it still won't break

Kicking it up a notch with bigger and better wedges

Finishing up the steps we started earlier this season

The first set of steps on this relo, done

More drilling near crib wall number one

Maybe we started a little too high

Saturday morning safety meeting

Looks like Terri is carrying a full load

Dan is ready to drill more holes

Just a few of the tools Dan will be using

A slow dusty project that just needs to get done

Horizontal holes, vertical holes, holes everywhere

LDTC doesn‘t give up

We keep drilling away at the rock mound

Back to the feathers and wedges

Finally a little break in the action

Whew. glad that's done

Nice job, now let‘s make it pretty

A few anchor rocks and some crush make a nice ramp

Add mineral soil, and the trail is ready for hikers

A lot of effort went into making this trail just right

The path near crib wall number 2, is now open and clear

Most of the new relo looks like this

Marion and Terri just put in a full day of side hilling

Bob keeps an eye on Peter as he works the belay

Erik finds another good rock for the crib wall

Erik and Peter continue building a crib wall in the ‘northern section‘

This crib wall will support the new trail and keep it level