John Klebes is an M-M trail maintainer and wrote the account of his hike this spring. Klebes day hiked sections of the M-M Trail for many years, but this April he decided to through-hike the entire trail end-to-end in a week.
The Mass AT Committee organizes Appalachian Trail supervision and maintenance within Massachusetts. If you’d like to be a part of this, get in touch with our chair (see below)!
Trail maintainers keep the footpath free of obstructions such as brush, and fallen trees. They also keep the white paint blazes that mark the AT fresh and easy to see. Shelter adopters take care of a particular shelter along the trail.
The AT is your trail. It is primarily cared for by volunteers like yourself, not by paid professionals. Volunteers contribute over 6,000 hours of work every year in the Berkshires alone. Without this kind of support from Georgia through Massachusetts to Maine, the trail would quickly become impassable and would cease to exist.
We don’t just enjoy the outdoors; we also help others do so, too. One of our most important tasks is taking care of the Massachusetts sections of the Appalachian Trail (AT) and Metacomet-Monadnock (M-M) Trail, as well as some miscellaneous local trails.