Trail work event in preparation of the Hopewell Challenge race
This year, we will again be adding some new challenges to the Hopewell Challenge race. As a result, Organizers feel a few new trails would make everything flow a bit better. If you would like to participate in those improvements, the day will be Saturday Aug. 22nd @ 8:00 a.
We will be creating new trails in two locations:
End of “Easy Peasy”. We will be likely calling the new trail, “Lemon Squeezy”. It will be a connector from Easy Peasy to the bottom of The Gut or The Glory…depending on manpower and a few other factors that will be communicated.
Off the Eight Ball Trail - this will be the much bigger project of the two. We will be adding some significant amounts of trail, and making some connectors from the Meadow Loop to Eightball and even possibly to a part of Old Humdinger.
I have marked the work areas on the attached map. People working on the Eightball area, might want to park on either Clinic Road, or the Toby Run Hollow “Dump Road” area, to reduce the hike to the work area.
TYPE OF WORK
We will be building trails. By the time you get there, they should be mostly marked out, and the heavy brush cleared. The job of volunteers will be mostly the earthwork on that day. We do it this way because having 10 people in the woods with chainsaws and weed whackers never seems to work out. As a result, we ask that you bring HAND TOOLS ONLY.
SUPPLIES
Make sure you bring lots of water, snacks, and anything you need to maintain yourself. Bug spray or suntan lotion might also be a need. Gloves, hats, proper clothing, maybe rain gear…all good ideas.
Bring hand tools
As mentioned above, we don’t want motorized tools for this work day because of the possibility of hurting other volunteers or clearing things that shouldn’t be cleared. You will be doing the earth work only.
Good tools include:
Rakes
hoes
pruners
laupers
shovels
mattock
Anything you think would be helpful in cutting roots, leveling ground and making some sweet single track trail (that doesn’t have a motor).