By Leah B.
Whippoorwills, Sandhill cranes, choruses of frogs, refreshing (sometimes tent blowing) winds, great star gazing and an awesome base camp place were not the only beautiful things on this project.
A total of 75 hardworking volunteers (about 30 out each day), put in 3000ft of new trail tread, corridor cleared another quarter mile for a white trail (which gives a great view of two kettles) and on Sunday, within 3 hours, put in almost 200ft of new tread on the steepest slope of the white blazed trail. This also created a whole conversation on calling white blazed trails loops, because in reality, most of them are not actually loop trails. We semi-concluded that they should just be called white blazed trails and they include anything that is not on the actual yellow blazed IAT and not an access (blue blazed) trail. Feel free to argue it out with others.
This trail building extravaganza included working through parties of ticks---fun for them, at least until satisfaction was had by folks pulling off their legs, or what ever other tick torture they could come up with-- and little No-seeum (Oh, you could see-um though) fliers- (sometimes speaking and eating came all at once), and some power zapping temps. In other words, fun was had and trail was built.
Those involved will have to stay tuned for the final version of --- Get the Hump Out, a new trail song coming to you-- ask Leah B or Dave L for details, or to add any lyrical ideas (I'm pretty sure we have probably forgotten the original ones anyway)--but think country hip hop.
One last note of significance for those who know Brad Crary is that when he left the fire on Friday night, he was the only one there---Believe It, Or Not! (FYI-This can be verified by Sharon and Leah).
