From July 4th to July 18th, AMC's Gentian Pond Shelter will be closed for repair and maintenance. Tenting will still be available on the platforms on site.
We are looking for trail volunteers for a number of new programs in AMC's Maine Woods Initiative. We have several exciting new week-long trail volunteer opportunities and a new Adopt-A-Trail Program in the 100 Mile Wilderness Area.
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last year completed a 6-month Americorps term with the Maine Conservation Corps as an Environmental Educator. During this term I hiked the trail on Mackworth Island and removed many non-native invasive plants like Oriental Bittersweet and Japanese Barberry. While I decided the outdoors is a much more interesting place than a cubicle, I regularly pull from my past Human Resources experiences and will do so for the AMC. My first week on the job entailed completing a Master Educator Leave No Trace course and I look forward to sharing this information with the teen trail crews! When I’m not on the trail or in the office you will find me kayaking, playing music and singing, taking pictures, and gardening!
Mike is bringing his strong leadership skills and experience as a Crew Leader to his role as Projects Coordinator. He’s taking the lead on training the Berkshire Teen Trail Crew Staff and planning great projects for the crews.
an art school student at the MFA in Boston and he has some pretty funny stories to tell about performance art. He’s got his own pottery studio, has a banjo he made with a cookie tin and a dessert fork amongst other materials, and this year he is in charge of ensuring that the Ridgerunners out in the field have all they need to execute the program’s mission to “mitigate the impacts of high use through outreach and education” all while keeping morale high and staying classy. He hails from nearby “NoHo:” Northampton, MA.
Hey Y’all! My name is Rob and I am between my junior and senior years at Columbia University majoring in Environmental Engineering. I am from Columbia County, NY and I am planning on having a blast this summer Ridge Running for the AMC!
Donna Delisle-Mitchell “Nature”
raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is my first time spending much time on the East and working with AMC, and enjoying it so far! I just finished a semester studying Wilderness Medicine at the University of Montana. My first trail crew experience was working with the Montana Conservation Corps on an Immersion Crew last season and loved it! I love hiking and the outdoors.
and his time last summer monitoring the Emerald Ash Borer, doing hard work to keep the trail in shape, interacting with visitors in a friendly and professional way and doing his part to restore the reputation of his beautiful home state. Tristan makes his own lightweight backpacking gear, including his sleeping bag and pack! In this picture, he is dragging a sled full of trash that he found and carried out of the woods.
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In the past couple of weeks there has been a chain saw class that was ripping lots of trees down for us to burn. As well as this nice long maple log, this will be used for us to start building a nice banquet table for the camp. The garden is booming and blooming. Our list of things growing is getting ever larger. We have planted as of today, Lettuce, Kale, Chard, Spinach, Bunching Onions, Onions, and Cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, potatoes, corn, cucumber, Zucchini, beans, carrots, peas and garlic. It is a nice list if I do say so myself. Enough dandelions for both the bees and trail workers to have enough food and flowers for all to enjoy without any worry of ever running out. Ryan from the shelters department helped me for one day and pick a whole bunch of peddles, wine can be made from these touches of flower. Ah, the power of self-exploration. Flies are soon to be done for the summer. I cannot tell you enough how happy this makes me. Working in the garden with a giant metal bird over one’s head, though entertaining, can get a little old. We have also had help from some of the staff of Pinkham. The ich to get out side burns in every one around here and with people are sick of doing dishes a couple decided to pull some weeds.
The dodge staff has been busy away working on their axes and a whole other slue of tasks to help us get ready for the up and coming season. Lots and lots of training hopefully will have all our staff feeling great about this summer. I must say, the whole staff is winding up to be great group of leaders. All staff are eager to work hard and learn much about trails and volunteer leading. We have been doing rock work training, basic maintenance training, teaching how to chop down a tree, the list goes on. With the chances of anyone leading any kind of trip we have to train all to ready for anything. After the month of training I know all the leaders will be ready for anything. We have many leaders and even a greater amount of confidence among the leaders.
With so many staff this year the tool shed was exploding with people. No room to even breathe. So what does one do when you need space? You let the creative juices flow and reorganize. A super helpful volunteer Todd Flagg, who has been on a couple of our trips, came in for a couple of days and helped bang out this new toll shed layout. Same building, same foot point, the outside looks the same, but the inside is both functional and spacious. Excellent
One of the great new additions to the camp dodge way of life is these solar light tubes. People and be in all kinds of hustle and bustle and still have no need to turn on the lights. The sun pushes its power even into the depths of the kitchen, were food can be made without the extra power of electricity for us to see the way. Yum
The season has started fast and furious. Lots of things are going on, all positive for both the staff and all our followers. Since this past winter a crazy big large water tank has been sitting in my field, just festering but a friend of mine is trying to build a natural water storage system. He was wicked into getting this tank, but like my self does not have a gas guzzling truck, so how does one s strap a 1000 gallon talk to it? Like so!
It has been a wild start to the whole season, super great, a little too busy, but wicked healthy for our program. The first week of crews now sits in the woods, let the gauntlet begin! This is 3-1 goose with Issue 2 of the camp dodge journals for the 2011 season. Have a great day everybody and love the land we live in!
I would like to thank the more than seventy National Trails Day volunteers that joined us in Crawford Notch this past Saturday, June 4.
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