Crew 1: Battery Cliff Rehab
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This week Crew 1 returned to Battery Cliffs for the third time this season. We transformed a super unsustainable, ugly section of trail into a rock staircase with the help of three crews. This week we finally finished up the steep area we had been working on.
The highline made an appearance this week once again and we moved the last of the rock we had quarried over the previous weeks uphill to finally be built into structures.
The feathers and wedges also made an appearance so we could split some of the larger rocks. Unfortunately, the rocks at Battery Cliffs have a mind of their own and didn’t always split quite how we had planned, but fortunately the pieces were still useable and turned into beautiful steps.
This week we also took a little trip into Crozet for our mandatory ice cream trip (that we unfortunately skipped last week due to weather). It made us all grateful that our camp was up in the mountains because it was at least 10 degrees hotter down in Crozet. It was so hot. Definitely ideal ice cream eating weather. A few of us also stopped into a little local coffee shop while we were there.
The day after we got to binge on ice cream, the Old Dominion club came out to work with us and put in a few water bars and drainages. After work they let us enjoy a nice potluck with them. On our last night some of us headed to Sherando lake for a swim and/or “hot” (lukewarm) shower.
It was another awesome week!
--Sarah Ellsworth, Assistant Crew Leader
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