Trail Crew
Trail Crew meets every Wednesday from 9 am to 11 am, except during bad weather and around holidays. Details on upcoming Trail Crew sessions will be posted here. Our work focuses on RRCT’s many public access properties, sometimes spending several weeks in a row at the same site. RRCT is also happy to help out at partner properties when Trail Crew is available.
There is a job for everyone, no matter your shape, skills, or strength. Join us the one week you have time or interest, or put Trail Crew on your calendar as your regular Wednesday morning ritual. It's a great way to experience a new preserve, get to know someone new, and learn new trail work techniques. Trail Crew tackles a variety of trail projects including clearing trail corridors, invasive plant removal, route finding and trail alignment, trail marking, constructing bog bridging and bridges, and improving signage. RRCT brings specific tools that will be helpful. We encourage volunteers to bring personal tools as well. Hand saws, pole saws, and loppers are favorites. Crew members should bring a water bottle, and wear sturdy shoes, work gloves, and the right clothes for the day.
Trail Crew is led by RRCT's Stewardship Director Hanae Garrison. If you have any questions or concerns, you can reach me at (973) 255-7513 or Hanae@RRCT.org
There is a job for everyone, no matter your shape, skills, or strength. Join us the one week you have time or interest, or put Trail Crew on your calendar as your regular Wednesday morning ritual. It's a great way to experience a new preserve, get to know someone new, and learn new trail work techniques. Trail Crew tackles a variety of trail projects including clearing trail corridors, invasive plant removal, route finding and trail alignment, trail marking, constructing bog bridging and bridges, and improving signage. RRCT brings specific tools that will be helpful. We encourage volunteers to bring personal tools as well. Hand saws, pole saws, and loppers are favorites. Crew members should bring a water bottle, and wear sturdy shoes, work gloves, and the right clothes for the day.
Trail Crew is led by RRCT's Stewardship Director Hanae Garrison. If you have any questions or concerns, you can reach me at (973) 255-7513 or Hanae@RRCT.org
Upcoming Trail Crew Sessions:
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Wednesday, January 28th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Today we will prepare Pisgah Hill Preserve (South) for RRCT's 14th Annual Full Moon Trek which will be on Sunday, February 1st from 4 to 7 pm! I hope to see you all there for our favorite event of the year. To prepare, we hike the 1.2-mile mile loop, trimming back any overhanging branches along the trail to make it accessible for visitors. At the summit, we’ll restock firewood at the summit for the campfire. RRCT will bring some dry kindling but most of the firewood we’ll collect from downed and standing dead trees nearby.
RRCT will bring a tarp to cover the firewood, a chainsaw, an axe, handsaws, loppers, a pole saw, a heavy-duty sled, and other tools. Bring work gloves, a splitting axe if you have one, and other tools to make speedy work. Layer up, it's cold out there! With all the snow we're getting, snow shoes may be helpful to pack down the trail.
Parking for Pisgah Hill Preserve (South) is at 74 Dougherty Road, New Gloucester. If it fills up, park along the shoulders of Dougherty Road, on one side only.
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*Photography and Filming Note: Your attendance at Trail Crew may be photographed or filmed and your attendance indicates consent to have any images or footage featuring you at the event to be used for RRCT-related materials and outreach. Should images or footage appear in marketing materials that you don’t wish to be featured in, email Hanae@RRCT.org, and RRCT will cease to further use your image or footage for any new materials going forward.
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Wednesday, January 28th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Today we will prepare Pisgah Hill Preserve (South) for RRCT's 14th Annual Full Moon Trek which will be on Sunday, February 1st from 4 to 7 pm! I hope to see you all there for our favorite event of the year. To prepare, we hike the 1.2-mile mile loop, trimming back any overhanging branches along the trail to make it accessible for visitors. At the summit, we’ll restock firewood at the summit for the campfire. RRCT will bring some dry kindling but most of the firewood we’ll collect from downed and standing dead trees nearby.
RRCT will bring a tarp to cover the firewood, a chainsaw, an axe, handsaws, loppers, a pole saw, a heavy-duty sled, and other tools. Bring work gloves, a splitting axe if you have one, and other tools to make speedy work. Layer up, it's cold out there! With all the snow we're getting, snow shoes may be helpful to pack down the trail.
Parking for Pisgah Hill Preserve (South) is at 74 Dougherty Road, New Gloucester. If it fills up, park along the shoulders of Dougherty Road, on one side only.
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*Photography and Filming Note: Your attendance at Trail Crew may be photographed or filmed and your attendance indicates consent to have any images or footage featuring you at the event to be used for RRCT-related materials and outreach. Should images or footage appear in marketing materials that you don’t wish to be featured in, email Hanae@RRCT.org, and RRCT will cease to further use your image or footage for any new materials going forward.
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