AT 2011 Trail Work Day

After completing the AT we spent the next few days attending the Biennial Conference of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy at Henry and Emory College. We set up and tended to an exhibit about the AMC Adventure Travel Program, gave a Workshop about the Program, and attended many workshops, meetings, and presentations. The following week there were many opportunities for hikes on the AT. On Tuesday we opted to participate in a trail work day. The projects included making trail improvements and painting a shelter.

With others we drove to a USFS road where the AT crossed.	We hiked about a quarter mile south on the AT to the Chatfield Memorial Shelter
Here Jenni worked on cleaning up and Ralph painted the inside of the dark shelter white. Others painted the outside brown or worked on the privy, removing some plywood to make space for some screening and then painting it.
Before	After
Others worked on the trail where it crossed the forest service road. They built a rock crossing over a drainage ditch and built some steps using black locust logs that had to be stripped of their bark.