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• Trail Maintenance Schedule 1984
• For The Record

TRAIL MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE 1984

Attached are Trail Team listings and assignments for 1984.  Our 125 miles of Appalachian Trail is kept open and marked by our efforts - your help is needed.  If your name does not appear on a Trail Team for 1984, and you want to help, call one of the 18 Team Leaders or Trail Maintenance Chair, Jeff Siirola.  It will only take one day of your time.

1. Review previous year's Trail Maintenance Report form for your section.
2. Pick a date for the Maintenance Trip and plan the trip.  Try to complete your section before the middle of July 1984.
3. Notify all team members; arrange rides.
4. Jeff Siirola (288-4147) will coordinate equipment if necessary so let him know what date you will go.
5. Assemble equipment as needed; white paint, blue paint (small jars), foam paint pads and buckets, 1" or 1 1/2" brushes, paper cups, scrapers,
   snail snips for cutting branches in front of blazes, rags, weeders, clippers, bow saw, signs and fasteners, trail maintenance report form, pen, map, trail description, Adirondack pack, garbage bags, first aid kit.  (Most equipment is in Hiking Club room at Eastman Employee Center).

1. Blaze the trail with white paint.
2. Clear brush along trail - Several sections need much work.
3. Check the trail description and map - comment on needed changes.
4. Blue blaze trails to water - check springs.
5. Install signs - comment on needs and list signs.
6. Clear blowdowns.
7. Check shelters - comment on problems.
8. Carry out litter.
9. Educate hikers you meet as practical and needed.

1. Clean and return equipment promptly for others to use.  Notify Jeff Siirola or Gary Bridges (HDC) of problems or damaged equipment.
2. Complete comments in Trail Maintenance Report Forms.  Be sure to report needs for additional work.  Collect map, report form, Trail description, "For the Record" and trip report for recreation report and mail to Jeff Siirola, Bldg. 95A.  A consolidated report for all teams will be prepared.

1984 Appalachian Trail Maintenance Teams

FOR THE RECORD

Winter Dinner Meeting - February 5, 1984                                            Reporting - Frank Williams
Fifty-seven members and guests were present for the dinner and several joined us after the dinner for the program.  Retiring Chair, Frank Williams thanked the retiring Steering Committee members, Lester Church, Doug Lowman, and Steve Falling.  The Hiker-of-the-Year Award was made to Kevin Edgar in recognition of his untiring work as a trip leader.  Gordon Newland, the Chair for 1984 introduced new Steering Committee members, Ed Oliver, Gordon Porter, and Paul Worsham.  Brief comments were made by Collins Chew (Chair of the Appalachian Trail Committee), Jeff Siirola (Chair, Maintenance and Special Projects Committee), and Ray Hunt (Chair, Appalachian Trail Conference).  A program of slides taken by club members on the Yosemite Hike was presented by Collins Chew.

Oglesby Brach Relocation Flagging Trip - January 28, 1984                   Reporting - Doug Lowman
Ed Oliver and Doug Lowman flagged two proposed relocations between Spivey Gap and No Business Knob Shelter.  The first relocation is just north of Spivey Gap.  This relocation will remove about 70 yards of dirt road walking and move the trail out of a short drainage ditch.  The second relocation is more extensive.  This relocation takes the trail out of Oglesby Hollow and moves it onto the ridgeline to the west.  The present trail location suffers from major boggy areas due to the creek in all seasons.  A third relocation was considered trail-south of Devils Creek Gap.  As the trail starts down Devils Creek Hollow, it drops off steeply for about 100 to 200 feet.  The trail is also in a drainage ditch here, but could be improved with one large switchback.  These relocations are designed to eliminate portions of our section of the Appalachian Trail that received numerous complaints last year because of the wet trail.

The following books are available in the Hiking Club Library located in the Hiking Club storage room 012 in the basement of the Employee Center.  They may be checked out by Hiking Club members only, while obtaining or returning the Room 012 key.