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  • Lemonade Out of Lemons, Habitat Out of Trees

    Sarah Kern
    September 18, 2023

    After Eversource cut down 40 pine trees along Little Harbor Road a few years ago due to safety concerns, the Forest Society's Creek Farm staff went to work by turning the trees into habitat.

  • "MONADNOCK: The Mountain that Stands Alone"

    Dave Anderson
    August 30, 2023

    Celebrate Monadnock and its long legacy of natural and cultural history.

  • Healing A Battered Brook Crossing at Gap Mountain

    Laurel Swope-Brush
    August 3, 2023

    Bog bridging helps forest regrowth on Gap Mountain.

Volunteers Take on a Mountain of Improvements during Monadnock Trails Week

1,000 hours given in week-long event
jseredejko
July 28, 2017
Mount Monadnock
Volunteers
Monadnock Region
Monadnock Trails Week
Volunteers come for the fun, camaraderie and purpose. Photo by Mike Zlogar

Volunteers for Monadnock Trails Week just completed the 12th year of trail improvements on Mt. Monadnock. Volunteers worked with Forest Society staff and trailwork professionals to accomplish projects that make hiking the mountain safer, easier, and less impactful to the surrounding forest.

Photo by Carrie Deegan

And with hiking destinations like Monadnock becoming increasingly popular, there is a literal mountain of work still ahead to improve the routes all the way to the 3,165-foot summit.

Each morning the group would circle-up over coffee and donuts to hear about the day’s projects before choosing how they’d spend the day. There is always a project on one of the main trails; White Dot and White Cross, because of how much hiker traffic hits those trails. But this year hard-working volunteers spread out over seven different trails.

Photo by Carrie Deegan

 

Some of the volunteers take this opportunity to give back to the mountain they love and grew up climbing. Others want to learn from the pros while spending time outside with a good group of people. And the most rugged of the bunch come to sweat off the morning’s donuts while crushing rock and building a methodically constructed stone staircase.

 

 

This year, perhaps the biggest Monadnock Trails Week in terms of attendance, accomplished nine projects in only five days. How do we do it? With a lot of rocks, sweat,and dirt.

 

Scroll down for a list of project accomplishments and photos. 

 

Photo by Jenn Seredejko

 

2017 Projects:

  • White Dot- culvert removal/replacement, trail turnpiking
  • Pumpelly- rock stairs and drainage
  • Dublin- brushing in braided/bootleg trails
  • Parker- cleaning waterbars
  • Royce- 120’ trail reroute
  • Gilson Pond loop- footbridge stringer replacement
  • Nature Trail- new 20’ footbridge, rustic timber benches, rock step stones

 

 

Photo By Jenn Seredejko

Photo by Chris Kintz

  

Photo by Carrie Deegan
 

Photo by Carrie Deegan

 

Photo by Carrie Deegan

Photo by Jenn Seredejko
 
Photo by Jenn Seredejko

Photo by Jenn Seredejko

 

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