The Mass AT Committee project schedule for the upcoming season will be published soon. A range of projects are planned for the year including boardwalk repairs, shelter and privy roof replacements, bog bridging, blowdown blitzes, trail brushing, open area clearing, natural heritage site visits, dock repairs and more! Click on our Getting Involved page for the 2012 Project Schedule (coming soon). If you’d like to join in a project just contact the project leader listed. No experience is needed, just a desire to get outdoors and have a great time with a great bunch of folks!
Join us on Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, 2011 as we continue restoration efforts on a segment of the New England National Scenic Trail at Mt. Tom.
Reservation staff, the Appalachian Mountain Club, NET personnel and Trailwrights, Inc (a professional trail maintenance organization) will demonstrate to volunteers-and guide them through-the techniques of trail restoration.
A great opportunity to learn or update skills, meet new faces, enjoy hearty food, and help to restore this trail for future generations.
Snacks will be provided on both days; lunch will be provided to all-day participants on Saturday.
Download the flyer (316k) at (http://amcberkshire.org/files/MtTom_LendAHand.pdf).
Pre-registration REQUIRED!
Contact: Bill Finn,
Volunteer Coordinator &
NET Stewardship Council Member
billfinn00@comcast.net
413.265.0404
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 Massachusetts Appalachian Trail Management 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.