Weeks 2 & 3

CREW 1 HEADS OFF TO GEORGIA FOR 2 WEEKS FOR SOME RESTORATION ALONG LANCE CREEK.....

Crew 1 spent most of the first week in Georgia helping to restore areas along the creek that had been heavily impacted by camping. They buried some large "iceberg" rocks in the middle of the campsites for prevent further impact and spread grass seed to help encourage new growth over the bare soil. Since they were out for two weeks, the crew spent a couple of days off at the Ranch, resting and eating lots of fresh vegetables from the garden! But they quickly got back to work for a second week building new tent pads and an access trail to the water source. They encountered a bit of rain... but that didn't stop them from getting a lot of work done and of course having a lot of fun in the process!

The "iceberged" rocks made it look a bit like a cemetery...

Using the crosscut to get some nice locust logs for the tent pads

Now that looks like a great campsite!

Sunset from the crew's base camp

I don't even know what's going on here?! But thanks Lester(front row) for the awesome campsite!

CREW 2 SPENDS TWO WEEKS ON THE NEW RIVER RELOCATION OUTSIDE OF PEARISBURG.....

Crew 2 continued on a four year (and counting) project to relocate a 5 mile section of trail just north of Pearisburg. They had a small crew week 1, but still managed to build 500+ feet of new sidehill!! WOW! Week 2 the crew kept chugging away, swinging those digging tools and knocked out another 700 feet of fresh trail. They ran into a few nice rocks projects along the way to give them a break from digging. They had fun spending one rainy evening swimming in the New River and enjoying some delicious Mexican food at a local eatery. Overall a wonderful two weeks with some more great volunteers!!

Clearing trail across the rhododendron filled power line

Building a rock crib wall to save the tree roots!

Taking a much needed break after some hard work!

Week 2 the new crew is back at it... swinging away

Doing an inventory and caching tools for the night

Crew 2 plus some awesome OCVT club members that came out to help!

CHECK OUT THE SCHEDULE FOR UPCOMING PROJECTS AND COME OUT AND JOIN KONNAROCK FOR A WEEK!!!

Crew Season 2010 has begun!!!

WEEK 1

We had a traditional first week based out of the Konnarock Base Camp in Sugar Grove. There were a lot of alumni there as well as some smiling new faces! With many spread out projects along the beautiful Mount Rogers section of trail, we split up into two crews to hammer out the tasks.

Crew 1 built some great rock steps, logs steps and redug almost a half a mile of tread that needed some repair. AWESOME JOB!!!

Crew 2 worked on about 7 switchbacks south of Saunders shelter building crib walls, rock steps and redigging some trail along the way.

Redigging some sidehill

Crush and fill - oh yea!

Putting in some rock steps

Blazing the new steps

Thanks again to all of our amazing volunteers!!! Come out and join us for a week (OR MORE!) on a Konnarock Crew!!

"Konnarock is so much fun!!" (I'm sure that's what they're yelling)