Crew 1: Battery Cliff Rehab
working with Old Dominion Appalachian Trail Club
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For week five, Crew 1 returned to Battery Cliffs to continue our rehab work on a heavily eroded section of trail. This week the highline made a reappearance, and all 70 of the rocks we flew downhill to a staging area last week, got flown uphill, to the work site this week.
Fighting gravity turned out to be quite a challenge, but we managed to do it all in a relatively short amount of time. We also got to do some building this week and put in some cribbing and a staircase despite the less than ideal weather. It ended up raining on us a good bit, so we had some leisurely mornings under the kitchen tarp, and then would head to work between 11:30 and noon most days when the rain eased up.
Even though most mornings were pretty rainy, some of the evenings after work were nice enough that we could enjoy a nice campfire and Jerry got the chance to grill hamburgers over the fire for the first time on project. On the last night, the club had an amazing chef come cook for us at our campsite which was a big hit. It was by far the best food I’ve ever had in the field and definitely put most of us into a food coma by the end of the meal.
It was yet another awesome week!
--Sarah Ellsworth, Assistant Crew Leader
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