Expecting 30 volunteers and a lousy weather forecast a week before the Bear Creek/Pinhoti Mega Workday, Walt Bready and I were pleasantly surprised when 75 volunteers showed up on Saturday, March 10, 2012, and you couldn’t have asked for a … Continue reading
Dear CoTrails Participants, We look forward to seeing you again at our next CoTrails General Meeting next Tuesday, March 20, 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the USFS-CONF Forest Supervisor’s Office in Gainesville. The address is 1755 Cleveland Highway, Gainesville, GA 30501. … Continue reading
The next volunteer workday for Team Conasauga is scheduled for Saturday, March 17, 2012. We will be working on the Penitentiary Branch multi-use trail, maintaining water bars, drain dips, and blow downs (if enough people show up). We will be staging from the … Continue reading
Come learn the techniques used by the Applied Trails Research team, including GPS basics, field inventory forms, photo logs, feature inventory, maintenance needs, and how to use the information collected in a trail evaluation and assessment in an upcoming workshop … Continue reading
In a recent post on the website “Singletracks”, local mountain biker Greg Heil explains how building a trail is only half the fun. He also de-mystifies trail worker terms like de-berming and nicking and shows the difference between a pulaski and … Continue reading