Well,
now that this email is late enough to be sufficiently embarrassing, I
want to thank everyone again for your help and hard work during the
trail building week out at Love Creek over a month ago (wow, time
flies!). It was so great to work with all of you and to meet all of the
new folks who came out to help!! Thank you so much for volunteering your
time, energy, sweat, brains, brawn and enthusiasm for this project!!
This was incredibly tough terrain to work in, and much time was spent
marching up and down the hills with heavy tools and supplies, raking and
digging out new sections of the trail, trimming and cutting
branches/trees, all the while, looking at rocks, shopping for rocks,
moving rocks, picking up rocks, tripping over rocks, throwing rocks,
contemplating rocks, digging out rocks, cursing rocks, stacking at
rocks, raking rocks, kicking rocks, breaking big rocks into smaller
rocks, flipping over rocks, staring at rocks ,rotating rocks, rotating
rocks back to their original alignment with encouraging remarks such as
“ok, one last time” offered up from those nearby, silently judging rocks
and, oh, did I mention, a lot of time was spent working with rocks? In
spite of everything, everyone was extremely positive and we got a
tremendous amount of work done!! Thanks to you, we are that much closer
to completing a trail that will connect the two sides of the preserve. A
special thank you to George Madding (aka, Captain Ahab), who not only
conquered the White Rock (aka, the White Whale) during the final days of
our trial building extravaganza, but who came out early, got things set
up, lined out our volunteer crews and spearheaded the whole week of
work, thank you!! Also, a big thank you to all of the Trail Tamers, who,
in addition to all the help and assistance you provided, openly shared
your trail building expertise with us and taught some of us newbies a
few new trail building tricks which we will put to use as we progress on
this project.
If you would like to see the photos I took during the course of the week, please go to: http://s1058.photobucket.com/albums/t420/rebecca_flack/ Password: LoveCreekTrail
I
apologize that I didn’t get photos of everyone who worked, I was
running around to different parts of the preserve a couple of the days. I
know several others took pictures though, so if you’d like to share
them with the group, feel free to send them to me and I can upload them
to my album. Also, for some reason, the photos uploaded in the reverse
order I took them in, so if you want to look at them in order, skip to
the end and work your way back.
Thank
you again to everyone who came out, you guys were awesome!! You all
have an open invitation to come back anytime to visit, hike, volunteer J,
whatever, just give me a call!! Please share this email with any
friends or family members I missed, as I know I don’t have email
addresses for everyone who helped with the work week.
Thanks again,
Rebecca
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