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Bottom Creek Natural Preserve (TNC)  Bent Mountain, Va.  66.0  10   5/6/2009  The main task for the day was to repair the vandalized sign system on the yellow trail. About a dozen sign posts had been pulled up and thrown into the brush. All were retrieved, wooden feet were nailed to the post bottoms, and the posts were secured by being tamped in tightly with rock and dirt. All the trails were inspected, some light clipping was done. Numerous blow-downs were cleared.All trails are in excellent condition.  Official 
Bottom Creek Natural Preserve (TNC)  Bent Mountain, Va.  69.0  10   5/7/2008  The crew divided into two teams and covered all three trails, general clearing and clipping, and some blow-downs were removed. The trails are in excellent condition. Signs of ATV activity in one place off the entrance road. ( this was noted by Jennifer Rich, volunteer coordinator from TNC, on her recent visit)  Official 
Location Summary for Bent Mountain, Va.:   Total Project-Days = 2      Volunteer Hours = 135.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 135.0
Appalachian Trail  Bluff City  81.0  9   8/5/2010  We returned today to work with the Konnarock Crew on the AT near Bluff City. Blanche and Judi clipped several miles of trail, while part of the crew built three sets of steps and part realigned a short section of trail. It was good to see Charles Parry (the RATC trail supervisor) back in the field after his prolonged illness.  Official 
Appalachian Trail  Bluff City  48.0  6   8/6/2009  Spent the day working with The Konnarock Crew and other RATC members in a relocation of the Appalachian Trail in the Bluff City area. This will be a beautiful section of trail on land recently acquired for ATC involving a large field with impressive views of the nearby mountains, and a picturesque ravine giving excellent protection to the trail in a rapidly developing neighborhood.  Official 
Location Summary for Bluff City:   Total Project-Days = 2      Volunteer Hours = 129.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 129.0
Appalachian Trail  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  45.0  6   6/22/2011  We hiked to The Lambert's Meadow Shelter from The Cove via Sawmill Branch Trail in order to adjust the overloaded mouldering privey.The adjacent crib was full also - of dry waste which had turned into a hard amorphous mass with the partially crushed wire net embedded in it. Fortunately we had brought along a shovel with which we were able to dig the material out. The toilet slid across without much trouble. We then proceded over to Niday Shelter where the base of a mouldering privey had been built by a troop of boy scouts but their plan to use the current privey on the structure was stalled because it proved too heavy to move. Our team of five could not move it either. In our view it would take 12 stout men and 2 Clydesdales to accomplish this. We have some misgivings about moving this structure some 30 ft across rough and sloping ground then lifting it up 4 feet onto the new platform and getting it erect. There is also the concern of stability once situated and if the scout structure (eg footings) is strong enough to support this weight. In our view, it would be prudent to build a toilet to approved standards for this crib and dismantle the old privey for firewood.The final determination should be made by the club board.   Official 
Araminta - Trail Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  20.0  4   4/20/2008  Reopen the Araminta trail. Cut fallen trees from the trail and rake the trail so that people can see it again. This trail never had much of a defined tread, so when it was not used for awhile it soon became hard to find.  Official 
Arrowhead - Trail Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  30.0  3   2/19/2011  Added 5 water diverters to the lower section of the trail which is a fall line trail with lots of errosion issues. This should help quite a bit. Noted the huge amount of silt that had been collected by one of our last diverters from the Fall. We had to scoop about 30 Witch buckets out of there. That shows it was working but that we needed more controls up stream. Cut fallen tree off Hi-Dee-Hoe near parking lot. Cut fallen trees off Songbird. Cut dead trees that were risking our work area on Arrowhead.  Official 
Comet Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  37.8  6   5/18/2008  Armor another stream crossing. The stream crossing took a lot of time due to no large rock nearby. Rock had to be brought in from over 2 miles away using pickup truck and Muck Truck for transport. We used ~100 lb rocks for the main channel area and made sure most were pitched in order to have most of the rock underground for support. We used the Ditch Witch this time to help dig the channel to set the rock pitched and curved with the stream bed which was easier than last time. We also armored the upstream banks.  Official 
Comet Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  33.5  6   4/3/2008  Armor one muddy section and one stream crossing. The stream crossing took a lot of time due to there not being any large rock nearby. They had to be brought in from over 2 miles away using pickup truck and Muck Truck for transport. We used ~150 lb rocks for the main channel area and made sure most were pitched in order to have most of the rock underground for support. It was hard to work in the wet and muddy conditions at the site.  Official 
Enchanted Forest Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  21.0  4   3/22/2008  Reroute part of Enchanted Forest trail to go around worst area of downed trees. This reroute had been in the trail plan anyway and most of it laid out by IMBA. It also avoids the most muddy section of this trail and a deep stream crossing which is better for water quality to keep trafic out of it. The Ditch Witch was a huge help in completing this section of trail in such a short time. We also drilled the holes for two new trail signs to mark where this reroute uses the fire road for a short section.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  12.0  3   3/3/2012  Cleared trees off Arrowhead, Songbird, and Enchanted Forest. Arrowhead was quite a mess on the far end.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  12.8  3   1/28/2012  Cleared fallen trees off Enchanted Forest, Arrowhead, School House, and Gate side of Song Bird.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  1.0  2   10/23/2011  Removed one fallen tree from Arrowhead Trail.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  6.0  2   10/15/2011  Removed three fallen trees from Arrowhead, 3 from Lower Comet, 3 from School House, 3 from Happy Valley and 1 from Gauntlet.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  7.5  3   4/5/2011  Cut trees off Enchanted Forest, Four Gorge, Comet, Schoolhouse.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R   4.0  2   3/22/2011  Cleared 7 trees from lower trails  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  2.0  2   2/22/2011  Cleared the twisted tree pile at the bottom of Trough.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  6.0  2   10/12/2010  Cleared fallen trees off of the lower trails.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  6.0  2   7/17/2010  Cleared fallen trees off the lower trails.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  5.0  2   6/28/2009  Ron used his truck and we drove to 3 different sites in the park to cut 3 trees that blocked the trails. The first one was west of Buck Trail and was a very large oak that was very hard for users to get around. Next we got a waist high tree at the end of School House Trail. Then we got another chest high one off of Song Bird. Spent lots of time driving!  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  6.3  3   5/19/2009  Cleared fallen trees from Arrowhead, Schoolhouse, Little Bell, and Song Bird.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  18.0  2   4/10/2009  Drove and hiked all over the Cove and cut many trees off the trails. Drained some water from the trails in some bad spots.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  13.0  3   1/11/2009  Cleared around 30 fallen trees from Song Bird, Happy Valley, Comet, and Tuck-a-way trails. Some were very large. Several root balls have pulled up part of the trail.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  3.0  2   3/25/2008  Clear the fallen trees from The Trough Trail. About 8 trees with one spot a pretty tangled mess. Looked for any danger trees from the fire near the trail and cut one down. Many others may die...but we will wait and see.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  28.8  5   3/21/2008  Cleared the Hotel trail. Cleared most of the Enchanted Forest trail. We went ahead and implemented one of the IMBA laid out reroutes because it had MUCH less downed trees and it will be less muddy too and avoid a big stream crossing by using a short piece of the road near Song Bird and Arrowhead. We will need to define this trail a little better in some spots, but it can soon be opened.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  14.0  4   3/20/2008  Cleared fallen trees off Comet from Kern Cliff to 4 way with Tuck-A-Way. Cleared Tuck-A-Way to Happy Valley road. Cleared the rest of Song Bird. Cleared the rest of Arrowhead.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  16.0  7   3/18/2008  Cleared the fallen trees from Hemlock Tunnel, and Kern Cliff from Hemlock Tunnel to Jacobs Drop. Cleared Jacobs Drop. Cleared Tuck-A-Way to the Comet. And cleared Comet from Tuck-A-Way to the Happy Valley road.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  24.0  6   3/16/2008  Cleared fallen trees from the Happy Valley fire road from the Bennett Springs gate to the spot where School House intersects the road (last offical trail intersection before the boat dock). We also did the other end of Song Bird and got the worst of the end of Arrowhead. We cleared everything on School House, and Church Bell. We cleared around 150 trees.  Official 
Fallen Tree Clearing  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  20.5  5   3/15/2008  Cleared the fallen trees off of Four Gorge Trail and part of the Song Bird Trail. Cleared around 50 trees.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  15.0  2   5/5/2012  We finished the last armoured crossing and worked on the tread a little at the end of the trail. Also got some more of the naturalizing done. Still have some more to do yet. We fought with rain for at least 70% of the day. It made the work slow.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  15.5  2   4/29/2012  Harvest rocks for armouring from the road up near the top of Gauntlet. Haul into the 3rd armoured crossing on the new trail as local rocks are hard to work with. Finished one side of the armouring and better protected banks down stream of the crossing. Moved some dirt so that it would not wash into the creek during high flow events.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  31.5  8   4/21/2012  Started on the armouring of the last big crossing. The first big crossing is done. We used the Witch to dig out the area for the rock first and took the dirt away from the drainage area. There was no water flow today. A crew worked on fine tuning the tread and backslope on the newest sections of the trail. We will soon be ready to finish the naturalizing of the rest of the trail and install signs. We may then spend a few days going through and tweaking a few sections of the trail trying to perfect it.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  26.5  4   4/14/2012  Finished the large creek armoring project today. Next week we will start on the next one which should not take as long. Did finish work further down the trail. Dave and Allen started off the day cutting a few downed trees off the lower trails.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  30.5  4   4/7/2012  Today we finished the rough in for the trail. We still have some finishing work to do and another stream crossing to armour. We are very close to having the largest stream crossing armoured. We spent half the day harvesting rocks from further away. We are having some trouble finding enough well shaped rock. Matt shaped a very nice banked turn at the end of the trail where it meets the fire road. We think people will really enjoy it going the other way. Logan, a boy scout, came out to learn how to build trail and may be building a trail near boat dock for his eagle scout project.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  58.8  10   4/1/2012  Continued the work on the big armoured crossing. Also worked on backslope in area cut last week and did some finishing work on the trail tread and naturalizing the spoils area. More trail was roughed in with the Ditch Witch and a track was thrown which cost us around 2 hours delay.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  19.5  3   3/25/2012  It was a very wet day today, but 3 of us desided to brave it. As it turned out, it was a productive day. We collected a bunch of rocks for our armoured crossings which takes a lot of time to carry them long distances. We finished one side of the big crossing. There was too much water flowing to finish the other side today. Matt pushed ahead with roughing in new trail with the Witch but it was tough going with slick surface.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  52.3  10   3/10/2012  Roanoke Times came out with us today and stayed for a few hours interviewing the volunteers and taking lots of pictures. Everyone was happy that the trail work will be in the news and hopefully stir some more interest. We worked on armouring our largest creek crossing on this trail. It takes a lot of time to set all the rocks and we have another day of work left on it. A lot of finishing work was done on the trail tread and the back slopes. Matt ran the Witch all day roughing in a long section of trail and working on some nice rollers and banked turns.   Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  8.0  2   3/3/2012  Continued work on new trail. Since it was very wet out, we had to just rough in some new trail instead of doing finishing work. The soil is sandy in this area which is not near as good to work with as the clay and rock.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  26.0  4   2/26/2012  The ground was still frozen when we got out there so it was hard to fine tune the tread. Also we could not work on the armoured crossing as the creek was flowing. Worked on some back slopes. Continued the trail using Ditch Witch and got to the next ravine. This one will likely need some armouring also. Will wait untill we get the other one done before we start this one.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  39.0  7   2/4/2012  Worked on insloped turn just past the big ravine. Did finishing work on backslope and downslope for the trail in the ravine area. Started to prep the area for the armored crossing work. Threw a track on the Ditch Witch and had to spend around two hours at the end of the day to reinstall it.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  9.0  2   1/29/2012  Continued with Four Gorge Extension. Was able to get out of the big ravine. But still needs finishing work.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  31.0  7   1/22/2012  Worked on cutting in the trail coming out of the big ravine. Only got about another 15 feet on that as it had a lot of solid rock and a lot of dirt had to be moved a long way in order to keep it out of the creek. The bigger chunks of rock were sorted out to be used for armouring. Most of the crew worked on hand finishing about 300 foot of trail before the ravine. They did a lot of naturalizing work on the down slope also and narrowed back the tread to give a nice finish to the trail and make it look like it has been there for a long time.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  20.0  4   1/7/2012  Continue the work near the largest ravine. We have some of it roughed in, but there is a lot of finishing work left and we are starting to rough in the climb back out of ravine.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R   38.0  9   12/17/2011  We had one crew working on the two large root balls that needed to be removed to align the trail correctly for our largest creek crossing on this project. Roughed in the trail up near the crossing with the Ditch Witch. Still have quite a bit of finishing work to do. The ground was pretty soft, so it was hard to get a good finish with the Witch.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  36.5  6   12/11/2011  Continue building trail. Made a lot of good progress today. We are out of the rocky areas so it is a lot easier to cut the trail in, but it will be affected more by freeze/thaw than the rocky areas. As it warmed up today the area we were in turned from frozen hard as rock to slimy slippery goo. Sent part of crew down the trail to start work on the big crossing. We have two big root balls to dig out for starters.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  8.0  2   12/3/2011  Continue building the trail. Past the last ravine before the big crossing. Now we are into an easy area for a few weeks.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  8.0  2   11/27/2011  Modified a section of trail that did not flow well and was a bit fall line. Turned it into an inslope turn with drainage at the end. This section of trail was near the beginning and was a section done during the first work day.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  41.0  9   11/26/2011  Got around the next ravine turn. Machine and hand finished the section of trail roughed out last work day. Roughed in another section of trail past the ravine. I think this is the 5th ravine. We are now on our way to the big creek crossing. That crossing will be a lot of work.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  52.5  9   11/13/2011  Roughed in the trail from one ravine to the next. Finally got a little break from the extreme amount of rock. Had a good turnout, so quite a bit of finishing work and naturallizing was done on trail that was roughed in last time. Also completed a significant armouring project in the last ravine crossing since we had a great suppply of large rocks. Still took a great amount of time to interlock them well and create a smooth surface. Kristine brought her famous brownies again, which help keep everyone energized and happy. I am sure we are over half way now and after this ravine we will have a long easy stretch of trail to build until we get to our hardest crossing yet.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  8.0  2   10/30/2011  Got past the 4th ravine. This ravine has had the most rock yet but it is easier to break up than some of the rock we have hit. It is breaking off in some nice big square pieces which will be usefull for armouring. Going to do some work on the Witch. New tracks and charging system, so we will not work next weekend.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  7.0  2   10/22/2011  Worked on the 4th ravine. Slow going, huge amount of rock. It is taking extra time to save the rock, but probably worth it as it is great for armouring. We are heavily rocking the ravine crossings.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  38.0  8   10/15/2011  Made it to the 4th ravine. Very good progress today even though we ran into quite a bit of rock and some large dead trees across or path without a saw.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  19.0  4   10/1/2011  Continue work on building this new trail. Made good progress with a small group. Worked around the 3rd ravine. Threw a track on the Ditch Witch and that delayed the machine use for about an hour.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  24.0  3   9/17/2011  Continued construction of the new trail. Made it to the 3rd gorge. Very steep side hill and lots of rock is making it slow going. The battery is not charging on the Ditch Witch so we had to stop a few times and charge it in order to make sure the cooling fan keeps running. Will need to troubleshoot if it is the charging coils or the regulator.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  30.0  5   9/11/2011  Finished up the first part of trail so that we can use that to walk in on trail work days instead of going cross country and wearing in a social path. That means the trail will be used while we are building, so we put up the under construction sign and wrote DEAD END on it. We might consider something more obvious though. Also had the other half of crew continuing the trail further out cutting though a lot of rock on steep side hill.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  6.0  2   8/15/2011  We used the Ditch Witch to get past the ravine. Now we have a foot hold on the other side. It is very rocky also and is very slow going. We scoped out the upcomming section and it looks like it will soon get a little easier for a bit anyway.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  53.5  10   8/6/2011  Finished insloped turn, it used way more rocks than planned. Several volunteers began chipping away at the veins of shale we ran into that was slowing the Ditch Witch down. Dave sharpened the teeth on the bucket and did some more shapening on the 6 way blade that had been started a few weeks ago. When we put the 6 way back on, we actually were able to slowly get through the shale which was stopping us before. Roots cut much easier. Made it all the way to the revine transition.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  5.0  2   7/29/2011  Finished putting Ditch Witch back together and tested. Running well now. Did a little digging and then ran into a vein for dense shale. Will need to use pick axes to loosen.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  5.0  2   7/27/2011  Put Engine back in Ditch Witch. Still have some more hooking up to do. It got dark on us before we could finish.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  16.8  4   7/24/2011  Because the Ditch Witch was broken, we had to do some work by hand. Choose to work on a rock armoured insloped turn. We used left over rocks from the crib wall project and others found while digging trail. Use Muck Truck to haul them. Was not able to finish the project, need some more rock yet. Put the repaired wiring harness back into the Witch so that will save time when the engine is ready to go back in.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  24.0  3   7/16/2011  We had planned to go out and use the Ditch Witch to cut in some trail tread and be ready for the crew to hand finish the trail on the next public work day. However we could not get the Witch started and ended up troubleshooting it all day and even desided we needed to pull the engine which is something we had not had to do yet and it took us a while to figure it out. In the mean time Randy sharpened our 6 way blade using a hand grinder and the Pathfinder generator. It will be nice to use that sharp blade when we get the machine going again.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  60.5  12   7/9/2011  Had a great turn out and the crew did excelent quality work and seemed to have a good time. Before lunch they had caught up to the Ditch Witch and we had to find some other work for them. We will have to have small crew Ditch Witch days between each larger crew work days which should not be a problem. Thanks to Kristine for bringing a tasty batch for brownies to help fuel everyone. Jeff did a fine job of leading the finishing work. Matt had some quality time running the Ditch Witch.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  13.0  2   7/2/2011  Installed new aux control handle for Ditch Witch made by Dave-THANKS! We like this handle better than original. Used the Ditch Witch to push ahead and cut trail tread so that the only work that needs to be done next week by volunteers is back slope grooming and down slope dirt distribution and organic spreading. Also completed some example finished trail. The machine can be used to cut proper full bench cut much much easier than by hand. But it is not as good at finishing the back slope or down slope. That is best done by hand.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  5.0  2   6/29/2011  Re-installed battery in Ditch Witch. Matt's Dad charged and tested the battery for us -THANKS! We had some trouble getting it into the tight compartment. After intalled we tested the machine and it ran well. We cut the trail on the other side of the bank of the armoured creeek crossing. We lowered the top of the hill by 2 foot and raised the middle section so that the grade was gentler. When we were done it all looked very natural. Most users will like the results better than what was there.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  46.0  8   6/26/2011  Continue with banked turn before first creek crossing. Built new trail past creek crossing. Had lots of trouble with the Ditch Witch. But everyone pitched in and a lot of work was done by hand.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  111.3  21   6/4/2011  Continue work on new trail. This was National Trails Day and we had around 20 volunteers help out. Much of the work was centered around finding large stones and building a retaining wall in a very steep sidehill section of trail. This work also might help save a large ash tree. Another group did finishing work on the trail before the wall. And some work was done to clear out the trail coridor further down the trail.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  36.7  5   5/22/2011  Continue work on steep side hill before the first armoured crossing. Have trail all the way down to spot were we need rocks for crib wall. We will have about 250 ft of trail to hand finish on National trail day plus the rock crib wall to work on.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  28.5  4   5/7/2011  Continue work on Four Gorge extension. Worked on the steep side hill from the first work day. With the Ditch Witch we were able to determine that much of the sidehill was only a half bench with undisturbed clay only yeilding a 1 foot wide tread. The IMBA crew suggested a 3 foot wide trail, but we are settling for 2 foot due to the amount of impact it would take to get 3 foot out of the steep side slope. Just to get 2 foot we have some 5 foot high back slope. Some more rocks were added to the top of the climbing banked turn (still needs dirt). Found lots of nice rock while digging and put in piles above the trail. We are getting close to the spot before the armoured crossing where we will need to build a crib wall out of stone.  Official 
Four Gorge Extension  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  468.5  58   4/23/2011  Pathfinders For Greenways won a grant to have IMBA Trail Care Crew come and teach a trail building class. We had a great turn out with 57 people attending the 3 hour class room and 3 hour hands on trail work. Steve and Morgan were the IMBA Trail Care Crew that came and they put on a great class that held everyone's attention. This was our kickoff work day on the new extension to the Four Gorge trail. Steve and Morgan split everyone into several teams. And a very good start was made on this trail through tough terain.   Official 
Four Gorge Trail  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  83.5  11   3/19/2008  We brought in the ditch witch and muck truck, accessing this section of trail through the courtesy of a local land-owner. Replaced two hazardous burned out culverts by sculpting wide shallow open crossings, hardened with heavy flagstone. One of the crossings may have been too deep and muddy for this remedy and will be viewed as an interesting experiment.Improved drainage in one 100 yard section and cleared the leaves backed up behind the double culvert.  Official 
Gauntlet - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  59.0  11   11/28/2010  Added around 7 stone water diverters to Gauntlet to reduce the trail errosion. Used stone as the soil does not compact well enough for dirt diverters and stone keeps more with the charactoristic of the trail.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  26.3  3   11/16/2008  Finished the Gauntlet reroute today. And moved the sign too. It was nice cool weather to work in. We had to dig out at least 8 significant stumps today and we worked around several huge stumps.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  49.0  7   11/9/2008  Continue building new trail. Today we had to deal with several large stumps but the crew stayed on the heals of the Ditch Witch and kept things moving. The crew said they didn't mind doing a little more work instead of doing as good a job with the Witch.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  38.0  6   11/2/2008  Continue the construction of the reroute for the top of Gauntlet trail.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  27.0  5   10/19/2008  Continue the construction of the reroute for the top of Gauntlet trail. Nice Fall day.   Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  28.5  5   10/11/2008  Continue the reroute of the top part of Gauntlet. Even this reroute has some steep sections. They turned out steeper than expected in order to get some grade reversals in. It should be sustainable, but it will be too hard for many mt bikers to ride up 3 short sections.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  30.5  6   9/14/2008  Continue the construction of the reroute for the top of Gauntlet trail.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  29.5  7   9/7/2008  Continue building new trail.   Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  33.0  7   8/30/2008  Continue construction. Past boulder field now and running parallel to the old trail. Lots of yellow jackets slowed us down. We could not do finishing work in those areas.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  31.0  6   8/23/2008  Had a very productive day. Have made it to an area with big boulders. We know we are over half way now and are turning to run more parallel with the existing trail. The weather was cool and dry, not at all like mid august. It is starting to take a little while to walk in and out on the trail since it is getting longer.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  23.0  4   8/16/2008  Continue construction of Gauntlet reroute. Great weather. Using Ditch Witch to cut trail and hand tools to finish.   Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  34.0  7   8/2/2008  Continue Construction of reroute of the top section of Gauntlet. Weather was threatening in the morning, but it cleared up and turned out to be a cool day for August. We got into some better dirt and made some faster progress.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  34.0  7   7/27/2008  Continue building the reroute. First had to change the oil in the Ditch Witch at site which was a first for us. Throughout the day we had to battle bummble bees & yellow jackets. They were everywhere, but only a few stings resulted. We are guessing the Ditch Witch covered up their nests when pushing dirt down the hill. The returning bees were not too happy.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  27.5  5   7/19/2008  Continue building new trail. Nice day. Spending lots of time to finish trail by hand and it is turning out very nice. Getting a little better at using Ditch Witch to cut trail so that a little less work needs to be done by finishing crew.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  10.5  3   7/9/2008  Continued building new trail. First we had to spend a little time going over the Ditch Witch engine because it has not been running as good as we thought it should. Didn't find anything wrong. It seems to be running rich. We were working after a big rain storm and got to see that the trail was handling the water well. However the Ditch Witch tracks had some trouble getting a good grip on the wet roots and rocks. The tracks did not pick up much mud which says something about the type of soil here.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  15.0  5   7/2/2008  This was an after work trail build session. We continued extending the length of the trail. It is slow going with the steep side hill and roots. Roots are the hardest thing for the Ditch Witch to deal with. You need to keep a pulaski on hand. We split into two crews to start and the other crew tackled several trees blocking trails throughout the park.  Official 
Gauntlet Relocation  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  16.0  2   6/29/2008  Started on the reroute of the top 1/4 of the Gauntlet trail that is very steep and erroded. It had extra damage from the fire fighting. We are using the Ditch Witch to cut this trail into the side hill. This is saving a huge amount of time and allows for smaller work crews. It is easier to schedule last minute work days.  Official 
Hemlock Tunnel - Trail Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  2.0  1   3/14/2009  Raked the deep leaves off the steep downhill part.  Unofficial 
Hemlock Tunnel - Trail Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  47.0  10   3/29/2008  We had Ron smith shuttle up our bikes and equipment and Gary Wheeler and Warren Schmizzi shuttled up the workers. We split up in two group and those on foot started rakeing from the Hemlock off camber “Shoot” as many cyclist call it while others on bike worked further down the trail. The shoot is now a wide open surprisingly smoth path that drops down to the bottom. Those on foot knocked out the top and caught up with those riding close to the entrance of Araminta. The majority of the crew started the daunting task of following Araminta and raking it out until they reached a spot of a large amount of downed trees and a question mark about where the trail continues on too. Three of us finished the journey to the end of Hemlock raking along the way. About 75-85% of Hemlock has been raked out and all of it is ready to ride free of branches and debris.  Official 
Hi-Dee-Hoe and Hotel  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  291.6  60   9/24/2011  Great turnout for National Public Lands Day, with large group from Mormon Church. No rain, no sun, not too hot, not too cold. On HiDeeHoe we repaired the trail entrance from the parking lot. Diverted parking lot water into a ditch, installed concrete and a grate. Filled the trench with riprap,then clay and stone, compacted, several rolling grade dips to divert water. Repaired fence rails. On Hotel Trail installed riprap base and raised trail through area that gets muddy. Used 31 tons of riprap ($670) on the two projects, ate 7 platters of sandwiches from Subway  Official 
Misc. Trail Repairs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  6.0  2   5/23/2010  Removed several small fallen trees from the trail with hand saw. Improved creek crossing on Song Bird after people have been wrecking there. Cleared some overgrowth of small pines from trail corridor on School House Trail so that approching trail users could see each other around the turns.  Official 
Misc. Trail Repairs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  12.0  2   5/8/2010  Load up free bricks from home build site and haul to ends of School House Trail for future creek armouring project.  Official 
Misc. Trail Repairs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  12.0  2   4/24/2010  Load up free bricks from home build site and haul to ends of School House Trail for future creek armouring project.   Official 
Misc. Trail Repairs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  80.8  15   3/27/2010  First part of day we worked on the back slope of some of the middle sections of Song Bird and armoured a creek crossing. Then we went over to Arrow Head and worked on the exit and the tree that got pulled out of the trail tread. Then we went and cut trees off Enchanted Forest, start of Commit, bottom of Fire Road and Hi-De-Hoe.  Official 
Misc. Trail Repairs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  38.5  6   8/29/2009  We fixed two major muddy spots on end of Enchanted Forest and Little Bell. We worked on drainged of several other spots on Little Bell. Then we moved over to Arrowhead exit and reworked the dropoff to the road in order to fix the large hole where there was a waterfall. We also added two large water diverters and fixed a few errosion holes in the trail. It is a fall line trail...but hopefully these fixes will keep it in service longer and prevent further widening.  Official 
Misc. Trail Repairs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  26.0  3   5/30/2009  Today we installed 5 french drains and hardened the newer section of Enchanted Forest. We started to harden the big swampy area but only get around 3/4 of the way across and will have to come back with the Witch to cut two french drains into that area. Thanks to Tom for bringing his tractor out and helping fill our new motorized tracked wheelbarrow and also taking many loads of rock over to the swampy area. We are vary happy with Pathfinder's new powered wheelbarrow.  Official 
Misc. Trail Repairs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  10.0  4   5/27/2009  Moved rock from the Tunnel pile over to the entrance of Song Bird and Enchanted Forest trails which will be used for armouring wet spots. Thanks to David from bringing out his dump truck and to John for bringing out his tractor. Unfortunatly after around 5 truck loads, David's truck had a hydraulic leak which effected the clutch. Thanks to Ron for pulling David's truck home.  Official 
Parking Lot Cleanup  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  13.5  3   2/21/2009  Bring the Ditch Witch down from the Trough trail and use it along with Johns tractor to clean up the rock piles in the Bennett Springs parking lot. This will allow more room for parking which will really be needed this Spring. Then Ron and I returned the Witch to the County Storage Facility.  Official 
Song Bird Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  68.1  9   8/15/2009  Finished work on armoring the mud holes on the one end of the Songbird Trail. This time we had 18 tons of great drainage rock donated by Rockydale Quary and with Delievery donated by L.J. Foley that was a huge help. Another great crew to work with! If we keep having this kind of interest in the trail work, we will get lots done out there. Thanks to Laura for taking great pictures.  Official 
Song Bird Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  49.5  7   7/25/2009  Cleaned out the drainage areas which were piled high with fallen trees. Cut deeper drainage paths and armored a few of the areas. We built a really big rock bermed turn in a drainage area that was in a turn. We put large rock on the bottom for the drainage and then smaller rocks as we built it up. It should drain well and be fun too. We finished armoring the swamp crossing on Enchanted forest. We had a spring brake on the new Canycom and that keep the machine in neutral. We temporary fixed it to finish up. We ran out of 10 gallons of gas and the witch was running on fumes so we had to quit at around 6:30pm and pack up. Great crew and fun day of work. Several mountain bikers stopped and talked and wanted to help out in the future. Having all the equipment makes such a huge difference and seems to motivate people more too because the work is not quite as hard.  Official 
Song Bird Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  36.0  8   6/22/2008  Worked on backslope of songbird where trail was machine cut. also worked on lower log crossing at creek on trail  Official 
Song Bird Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  61.5  15   4/14/2008  Raked Song Bird from Happy Valley Road to beyond the new crib wall. Lots of leaves. There is a new tree down on the road before the first creek crossing - i.e. you cannot drive in.  Official 
Song Bird Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  25.0  4   4/5/2008  Finished a section of trail that needed a crib wall in order to avoid damaging near by trees and still put the trail on the contour line where it needed to be for sustainablilty. Cleaned up trash around the parking lot before 9am for Clean Valley Day.  Official 
Song Bird Trail Maintenance  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  5.0  1   4/30/2011  Deberm and clear out drainages  Unofficial 
Song Bird Trail Maintenance  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  61.5  15   4/14/2008  Raked Song Bird from Happy Valley Road, past the new retaining wall and rocks, to the next big tree that is cut out for the trail with a jump beside it. Lots of leaves. New tree down on Happy Valley Road before the creek crossing.   Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  19.0  4   5/17/2009  Did trail assessment on Gauntlet Trail.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  6.0  1   4/30/2009  GPS of proposed new trail near Buck, USGS trail/fire road, ATV trail off Trough.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  2.8  1   4/23/2009  GPS tracking off Timberview behind Sherwood Archers  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  32.5  13   4/15/2009  Carvins Cove Trail Plan Meeting - review trail assessments and provide input on plan.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  3.0  1   3/31/2009  GPS mapping of Songbird Trail, Enchanted Forest Trail. Review ideas at bike shop.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  2.0  1   3/30/2009  GPS mapping of Hotel and Buck's Rut.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  5.0  1   3/29/2009  GPS mapping of Sawmill Branch Trail, portions of AT, blue line, ATV road, and Arrowhead. Beautiful water everywhere.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  18.8  3   3/29/2009  Assess the rest of Kerncliff, Aramenta, and Jacobs Drop.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  3.0  1   3/24/2009  Assessed Riley's Loop  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  15.0  3   3/24/2009  Finished assessment on Comet.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  3.0  1   3/23/2009  GPS mapping of road from Tunnel Road, old AT, ATV routes  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  11.0  2   3/22/2009  GPS mapping of portions of Songbird, free ride, AT, blue line, and ATV trails, finishing at Tunnel Road.  Unofficial 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  12.0  3   3/21/2009  Trail assessment of Arrowhead Trail at Carvins Cove.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  2.0  1   3/20/2009  GPS mapping of road from Timberview to Brushy Mtn  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  35.0  10   3/18/2009  An additional 2000 ft. of Arrowhead and the remainder of Enchanted Forest were assessed. Note - extensive storm damage in the southern half of the forest precluded assessment of part of Enchantered Forest in this area (approximately 1000 ft. ),so the route currently in use - along the Happy Valley Road then back to the trail - by-passing the damage - was evaluated.   Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  61.5  8   3/11/2009  Assessments were done on - Schoolhouse, Sawmill Branch and the first section of Arrowhead Trails.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  8.0  2   3/9/2009  Assessed Tunnel Road, with training for new equestrian volunteer, Bob Hogan  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  23.5  4   3/8/2009  Assessment of Hemlock Tunnel and part of Jacob's Drop and Kerncliff.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  12.0  3   2/28/2009  Trail assessment of Songbird Trail at Carvins Cove.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  15.0  3   2/28/2009  Songbird assessment from last point to Tunnel Road  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  72.0  11   2/19/2009  Trail assessments at Carvins Cove  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  91.5  14   2/14/2009  Trail assessment training at Kessler Mill 9-11, then started assessment in three groups. Started Songbird, Tuck-A-Way, and Comet.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  72.0  9   2/14/2009  Completed assessments of Four Gorge and Tuckaway Trails, and also Little Bell and about half of Enchanted Forest.  Official 
Trail Assessments  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  99.5  16   2/11/2009  Trail assessment training at Kessler Mill 9-11, then started assessment in three groups. Did 4-5000' on Hotel, Hi-Dee-Hoe and Four Gorge.  Official 
Trail Signs  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  35.0  10   3/18/2009  Nine signs installed.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  83.0  15   11/7/2010  This turned out to be a great work day. Weather was perfect and we had an increadable turn out of 22 mountain bikers that were very interested in continuing the work of turning this old fall line trail into a fun and sustainable trail with water control features that are also enjoyable to ride over. While we were putting the finsihing touches on, we let the trail testing begain. The verdict seemed to be big smiles. We had several volunteers that came up from Virgina Tech Freeriders to help out.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  3.0  1   3/22/2009  Repair of berms and naturalizing of some devegetated areas.  Unofficial 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  32.5  8   2/15/2009  Finished up the work we planed on doing with the Ditch Witch. Put in 4 more large water diverters. Debermed more of the long straight steep section that is on a side hill.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  22.5  4   2/8/2009  Hardened some wet sections of the trail with 1-3 inch stone and smashed it into the mud. Debermed part of the long straight steep section of trail to help prevent water from running down the trail. Finished the 2nd landing in the expert area.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  45.5  9   1/25/2009  We continued building the large water diverters on the erroded sections of the trail. We also banked two existing turns. We added a gap and landing on the largest jump in the expert option.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  22.5  5   1/18/2009  Added two more water diverters and drainage paths these were not as tall but longer ones. The ground was very frozen so we could not cut any area that did not have ground cover which had kept the soil from freezing as hard. Some touch up work will need to be done when the trail thaws out.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  21.0  3   1/11/2009  Added another large water diverter and drainage path and also a smaller one and banked turn. Made a better landing for people that want to jump from the water diverter. Moved a banked turn and a jump near the end of the expert section. Several mt bikers came by and commented on how much they like the improvements to this trail.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  28.5  6   1/3/2009  Continue work on the expert section of the Trough. We put in three bermed turns and one large dirt water diverter with wide drainage path.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  24.0  4   12/14/2008  We worked on the Expert section of the Trough and put in a big grade change that can be used as a jump or gone around. We added a stone ramp and drop near the end of the expert section. This is the start to some technical features to meet the request of many trail users while also reducing the errosion on this trail.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  19.5  3   12/7/2008  Added 2 more grade reversals to remove water from the trail. Added a combination grade reversal with banked turn at a trail intersection. Will have expert option in an old section of trail.  Official 
Trough Trail - Improvements  Carvins Cove - ROA_City_P&R  13.0  2   11/22/2008  Moved Ditch Witch from Gauntlet down to Trough trail and started some repair work on that trail. We installed 3 large rolling grade reversals to direct water off the trail. We are hitting some of the worst spots along the way first and may add more later.  Official 
Location Summary for Carvins Cove:   Total Project-Days = 137      Volunteer Hours = 4,295.2     Staff Hours = 86.3     Total Hours = 4,381.5
Appalachian Trail  Catawba Mountain - McAfee Knob  96.0  12   8/11/2011  We carried out a short relo on the badly eroded section of trail immediately north of the fire road, and did some minor drainage corrections on up to the rocky road.We had expected to work with Konnarock in the afternoon but discovered that they don't work on Thursdays anymore.Some crew members came back to work with them over the next three days.  Official 
Appalachian Trail  Catawba Mountain - McAfee Knob  71.5  11   6/8/2011  Recovered and repaired bridge which had been swept down-stream in the recent flood.  Official 
Appalachian Trail  Catawba Mountain - McAfee Knob  80.0  10   1/19/2011  Repaired 300 yards of badly eroded trail immediately south of McAfee Knob.Placed water bars where possible (much of the trail is deeply below grade affording no opportunity to throw the water off). Raked and cleared the tread between water bars, removing cobbles and rocks,built some steps.  Official 
Location Summary for Catawba Mountain:   Total Project-Days = 3      Volunteer Hours = 247.5     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 247.5
Appalachian Trail  Craig County  55.0  8   11/8/2011  Niday privy - the various sections of the structure were assembled in Jim Brown's workshop and loaded onto Lynn Bryant's blazer ready for transport the following day.Jim is a skilled carpenter. He deserves much credit for the meticulous planning and generous use of his superb tools, which insured the success of the project. Jim modified the plans and this resulted in a structure much lighter and about 1/2 the allotted cost.   Official 
Location Summary for Craig County:   Total Project-Days = 1      Volunteer Hours = 55.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 55.0
Appalachian Trail  Craig County/Giles County  178.0  17   11/9/2011  The BAILEY GAP team proceeded directly to the AT at Bailey's Gap on Big Mt up above Stoney Creek in Giles County - the mission was to dig a new pit for the privy. They encountered an unexpected difficulty in a deep muddy pond across the road about 3 miles up the mountain, requiring a retreat to an alternate route and losing about an hour.The welcome arrival of Timo Grueneberg, a RATC member who lives in Blacksburg was a great help. Once on the job they did well, punching down through more than 5 feet of heavy shale. Part of the NIDAY TEAM was to arrive with materials from the demolished Niday privy to repair the rotted lower back wall of the Baily gap structure, then move it to the new location. When the Niday party did not materialise by 3 PM, the pit crew came on out. By great good fortune everybody ran into each other down on the Stony Creek Road. By then the light was fading and everybody went home - 2 hours each way. The NIDAY TEAM proceeded to the trail-head of the short cut to the shelter, Jim Roberson ferried in the materials on his 6 wheeler in two trips and brought out the necessary boards for Bailey Gap afer the old privy was torn down. The erection of the new privy went smoothly and everybody was out and back at the Orange Market by 7 PM.(Jim Brown returned the following week-end to install a shelf, name sign and moldering privy instructions).   Official 
Location Summary for Craig County/Giles County:   Total Project-Days = 1      Volunteer Hours = 178.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 178.0
Buffalo Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Floyd County  21.0  7   10/15/2010  A small contingency of the Mid Week Crew proceeded down to the preserve for the annual field day. DCR staff had identified a project for us - correct drainage problems around the kiosk at the trail head, create a viewing platform and re-align the trail. This was done in 3 hours, in time for us to enjoy the naturalist's walk to the summit with other visitors.The excellent management skills of the DCR is beginning to show.The new trail is a huge improvement over the old rutted road and the native flora is recovering. It was a glorious day, the views were as spectacular as ever. To complete the visit, the exuberant group enjoyed a robust meal at the new Italian restaurant in Floyd. Life is good!!   Official 
Location Summary for Floyd County:   Total Project-Days = 1      Volunteer Hours = 21.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 21.0
Alleghany Highlands Trail - Off Dolly Anne Rd  George Washington NF - James River FS  36.0  6   6/14/2008  We worked on a very steep side hill section that had some very large boulders and lots of large rocks to deal with. This was in preperation for around 700 Boy Scouts that will be working on building trails for several weeks in the area. We were able to get a trail laid in through the worst part of the side hill. Even though that section isn't finished, alot of hard work has been done and it is now known that the trail can be located near the route that was laid out. We got to pry loose some ~1000 lb boulders and send them flying down the hill (after stopping any traffic!).   Official 
Location Summary for George Washington NF:   Total Project-Days = 1      Volunteer Hours = 36.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 36.0
Seven Mile Mountain  George Washington NF & Jefferson NF  37.5  5   7/29/2009  Enjoyed working again with the District Trail Crew. The two sets of steps at the 632 pull-out were completed today - replaced, repaired or added - 27 in all. Signs added at each end of the trail. Brushing out completed. Rained all day. Sun came out as we left.  Official 
Seven Mile Mountain - Cove Branch Trail  George Washington NF & Jefferson NF  84.0  8   7/22/2009  The crew worked with the trail crew from the Blacksburg RD,under the direction of Jon Wheeler, who supplied a load of excellent locust logs for the steps. We divided into two groups, the group on Seven Mile Mt.split into two teams, one worked on replacing the deteriorated steps at the Rt.632 pull-out, the other team began clearing the main trail. The trail was severely overgrown and there were many blow-downs. All the blow-downs were cleared out by the FS team,and the Roanoke team cleared about 2 miles of brush. The second group cleared the Potts Arm Trail from the Rt. 604-1 trail-head to the Cove Branch Trail, and then along the Branch Trail towards the Cove Recreation Area. The work was slow and difficult and about 1/2 of the branch trail was cleared before running out of time.Note that travel-time is added to the actual work hours in the following time log.  Official 
Location Summary for George Washington NF & Jefferson NF:   Total Project-Days = 2      Volunteer Hours = 121.5     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 121.5
Appalachian Trail  Giles County  80.0  10   11/17/2011  The BAILEY GAP PROJECT was completed today. Light snow, temerature below freezing, but no wind, very comfortable working conditions.The forest was absolutely beautiful. Carried in the boards dropped last week. Tipped the privy on its side, removed the base of 6 by 6's and settled it on its new bed, slid the privy laterally and replaced it on its base, having a big crew made things relatively easy. Covered the rear with the new boards. Could not paint - too cold. Replaced the old toilet seat. All done and out by 2.  Official 
Mountain Lake Resort  Giles County  269.0  77   5/10/2011  May 10 thru 12 - The crew and spouses (a total of 23 volunteers) were guests of the resort,this included a wine and cheese reception first night. The primary objective was the creation and installation of a new trail sign system for the resort ( fifty five signs in all, with posts and hardware). Emily Hutchins, the Conservancy director, had a well organized system worked out with the sites identified on maps,and we were able to assemble the signs, locate the sites which were scattered all over the property, dig the holes, set the posts in concrete and were done by noon on the last day. A group of the wives, led by Blanche, cleared the Indian Trail, a two-mile path around the lake. This was a major undertaking as the trail had not been cleared for years, and was practically impassible in many places. It is a really beautiful walk, and should be a major attraction for the resort.Our thanks to Brian Batteiger for routing the signs on the Pathfinder's sign machine. Hours were estimated as follows - Sign team (ST) - Tues:11-4 ; Wed:9-4; Thurs:9-12 Trail team (TT)- Wed:9-4 ; Thurs:10-12 Trail plus Sign teams finish trail: Thurs 1-4(S-T)Those participating were - Pat(TT)&Eddie Baldwin(ST), Tom(ST)&Doris(TT) Berdeen, Jimmie(-)&Malcolm(ST) Black, Mervin(ST/S-T)&Blanche(ST/TT/S-T) Brower, Jim (ST)&Joan(TT) Brown, Joyce(TT)&David(TT) Foster, Bill Gordge(ST/S-T), Stu(ST)&Debbie(TT) Hubble, Judy Langenhost(TT/ST), Jim(ST)&MaryLou(TT) Lewis, Jim(ST/S-T)&Kathy(TT) Overholser,Ron Reese(1/2TT), Jim Roberson(ST),Hugh Scruggs(ST), Maurice Turner(ST),   Official 
Mountain Lake Resort  Giles County  96.0  12   1/5/2011  A relocation on the Bear Cliffs Trail around a hazadous rocky section. Easy trail work, about 400ft in length.This is an interesting area with dramatic rock formations and a large flat slab at the 4000ft. terminus affording stunning views to the east. Two mile walk-in mainly in 2-3" of snow,this being on the north side of the mountain, but fortunately the work area is on a gentle slope inclining to the south-east, and clear of snow. Temp in the morning 19 degrees, but no wind and bright sun, warmed up later for a great work day. Day ended with hot chocolate in the Conservancy office graciously supplied by Emily Hutchins, Conservancy Manager, who then gave us a tour of the hotel which is empty at this time of the year.   Official 
Location Summary for Giles County:   Total Project-Days = 3      Volunteer Hours = 445.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 445.0
Mill Mountain Park  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  55.0  12   4/23/2008  Many hours of work went into preparation of the Mill Mt. signs by Dick Clark and Dick Howard. Together with park manager Paul Chapman, they organized the sign installation work-day beautifully, with a system using three-man teams,labels, maps, and marking the sign locations on the ground. Together with the mid-week crew, some 24 signs were put into place.  Official 
Virginia Pine Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  69.0  11   1/14/2009  Completed trail down to Hartsook Blvd today. Length of trail is 0.51 miles.  Official 
Virginia Pine Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  65.0  8   12/17/2008  Peggy and Lynn installed the sign at the top end of the trail where it joins The Wood Thrush Trail, and began joining up the trails.Too wet to paint. Meanwhile down below, another 250 ft. of trail was cleared. there is perhaps 50 yds. of trail remaining to be built to reach Hartsook Blvd.  Official 
Virginia Pine Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  45.0  8   12/3/2008  Short work day with 190 ft. new trail constructed.  Official 
Virginia Pine Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  82.5  11   11/17/2008  300ft. of new trail built today.  Official 
Virginia Pine Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  76.0  10   11/12/2008  Continued working trail down around the side a deep pocket in the drainage - also much broken rock, duff, and roots, making slow progress.  Official 
Virginia Pine Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  74.5  10   11/5/2008  Continued trail construction - 250 ft. descending through pleasant hardwood cove although soil very rocky and difficult to work.  Official 
Virginia Pine Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  82.5  11   10/29/2008  Continued the work started on this new trail by Dick Clark, Dick Howard and other volunteers. This trail will provide access from the Garden City neighborhood up to the Wood Thrush Trail in the Mill Mountain Park trail system.About 250 ft. of trail dug.  Official 
Wood Thrush Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  14.0  2   11/20/2010  Used the Ditch Witch to shape a climbing turn on the new Woodthrush extension. Also armored the first ditch crossing at the lower end of trail with large stones.  Official 
Wood Thrush Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  40.0  9   9/29/2010  North Cross students were set to work on Wood Thrush Trail but it rained, so they cleaned inside the Discovery Center instead.  Official 
Wood Thrush Trail  Mill Mountain - ROA_City_P&R  168.0  33   9/25/2010  National Public Land Day - built extension of Wood Thrush Trail on Mill Mountain from lower parking lot to watertower.  Official 
Location Summary for Mill Mountain:   Total Project-Days = 11      Volunteer Hours = 755.5     Staff Hours = 16.0     Total Hours = 771.5
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  117.0  13   5/18/2011  Despite a gloomy weather forecast, dense cloud cover gave way to bright sunshine by afternoon but then came a drenching thunder storm while securing the machinery on the trailer at the end of the day. Excellent day's work, with all objectives achieved. We cleared a thickly overgrown building site for much-needed toilet facilities on the Huckleberry Trail, using a chipper to dispose of all the debris; constructed a storm water channel up-slope from the trail into an adjacent wetland; diverted water from two springs away from the trail;constructed two 30 ft. turnpikes, about 2 ft. high and 4 ft. wide across poorly draining ares, using geotek under a base of rail road ballast about 1 foot thick topped by black shale excavated nearby, about 6 inches thick - compacted - margins secured by edging with rip-rap. Corrected several other minor drainage problems, and added a little rock protection to the bridge and several of the hardened trail crossings.Great assist in getting materials and working with us on the work day by Rich Haugh, Brad Buchanan and several other P&R staff members.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  0.0  0   12/3/2010  The crew worked in two teams today, one with the ditch witch working on three climbing turns back on the completed section of trail, the other pushing along building the new section from the new bridge towards the end at the big wooden bridge. The first 150 yards of this section runs over black granular coal - quite an interesting trail feature - then over a meadow and finally into a white pine stand emerging close to the sealed entrance of the Merrimac Mine.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  42.0  12   11/10/2010  This was a short day,finished up the last of the three climbing turns,and the small piece of trail remaining to connect to the handicap trail extension from the big bridge, and a walk-through to clean-up, look for tools, and remove a few stumps. Then we enjoyed a wonderful barbeque lunch supplied by Mitch and Brad courtesy Montgomery County in celebration of THE FINISH OF THIS PROJECT.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  110.5  13   11/3/2010  The crew divided into two teams, one working with the ditch witch building three climbing turns on the completed section of trail,the other team pushing along with new trail construction from the new bridge towards the end of the loop at the big wooden bridge.This last section is of interest in that it passes for about one hundred yards over coarse granular coal giving a black tread.This is a pretty section passing across a meadow and through a pine forest, and close to the sealed entrance of the old Merrimac Mine.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  119.0  14   10/26/2010  The bridge was completed. Special thanks to Lynn Bryant for his planning efforts . Additional heavy rip-rap was added to the north bank and footer.About 200 ft. of new trail was completed on the far side of the creek. Vandals had thrown a large rock into the middle of the creek.Some work remains to be done on the north approach to the bridge.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  104.0  13   10/20/2010  A big load of good heavy rip-rap greeted us at the bridge site and it took all day to get it into place. The going was particularly slow on the far bank, moving the heavy stone across the creek, which was swollen by heavy rains from the night before. However by early afternon the creek level was down to about a foot and sunshine and bright blue skies cheered us on, and by the end of the day the rock pile was gone. Meanwhile a small crew diligently carved away on the steep north slope to open up the trail approach to the bridge.   Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  123.5  15   10/13/2010  Work on the low-water bridge was begun using 25' telephone poles - 3 stringers and a single 10' footer on each bank, all strongly secured with 4' rebar. A load of rip-rap was used with geo-tek to protect the banks and footers, but more will be needed. An up-stream spring was drained to the creek. Good progress was made in excavating the hillside for trail approach on the north side. 2"by6" deck boards were cut to 5' but the decking and toe plates will have to wait until next week. It is always fun to see Malcolm's friend Creston Stokes who is here on his annual pilgrimage from Indiana to see-and paint-the fall color.Great support from Brad and Mitch in getting the supplies out to us!   Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  112.0  14   10/6/2010  The last 200 ft. of trail was opened out to the Huckleberry Trail, so completing the northern segment of the circuit.The site of the foot bridge across the creek and its design were reviewed with Brad and Mitch, and the approach path through the grassy flood plane was cleared.Meanwhile Dave and Merv did a nice job away back at the beginning relocating and clearing the connection to the Huckelberry Trail opposite the big wooden bridge.This portion of the trail is thus open and functional,although several climbing turns have yet to be completed.   Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  104.0  13   9/29/2010  250 ft. of trail constructed crossing and hardening the final drainage, skirting the remnant of a moss-covered rock wall of unknown significance. Care was taken not to damange this structure.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  93.5  11   9/22/2010  Good progress made with 300 ft. of trail built, about half side-hill, and a small team doing a nice job in hardening the next drainage.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  67.5  9   9/15/2010  Completed a long gentle sweep around the next low hill and hardened the second of four small drainages.About 300 ft. of trail built - rough cut with the ditch witch, and completed by hand.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  76.5  9   9/8/2010  We took the ditch witch down to work the current section because of the density of the thickets and because of the amount of earth to be moved. We made good progress despite some initial difficulty in getting the machine across one deep muddy area. We have reached the site of the old hotel. Unfortunately the only evidence of its existance is an overgrown clearing on a hilltop which at one time probably enjoyed a commanding view.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  108.5  13   9/1/2010  Easy digging today, the trail on a gentle grade through open pleasant woods, the soil quite sandy some roots but very little rock. About 300 ft. of trail constructed.Now crossing third of six drainages.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  84.0  12   8/25/2010  Despite a late start due to rain we had a good turn out and cleared about 250 ft. of trail.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  100.5  12   8/11/2010  Built about 50 yds. of side-hill going into an insloped turn (incomplete)and then another 50 yds. of trail to the next turn. We enjoyed an enthusiastic visit by a member of the County Board of Supervisors (John Muffo)We quit at 3PM - very hot and humid. Energy level perked up considerably after a slice of Peggy's ice-cold watermelon.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  90.0  13   7/28/2010  We cleared about 450 ft. of trail, passing under the power line and using the bench of an obscure road for a nice well-graded crossing of the drainage (now dry), making for easy work. We have reached the foundations of the huge wheel and cable which is on display by the Huckleberry Trail below us. This cable extended down the inclined mine shaft across the valley, to pull the coal trucks up from a mile below.   Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  96.0  12   7/21/2010  We found that a nice rain had packed the ground down well,aided by many many local volunteer feet pounding up and down the tail last week carrying out 60, yes 60, bags of trash,for a tremendous improvement in the appearance of the area. Despite the oppressive heat we logged in about 250 ft. of trail, cutting through another incredible thicket as we approached the power line corridor. We also finished the insloped turn,hardening the inside margin and lower cross-over with cracked up sandstone. Now entering the second drainage as we pass the power line, with pleasant open forest land ahead.  Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  114.0  14   7/14/2010  The day began with a modest celebration hosted by Jim Brown in the parking lot of the Orange Market - the cause for the celebration was revealed - he has survived one year of toil in the Mid-week Crew. Mitch Hawk and Brad Buchanan from MCP&R arrived at the trail-head with the muck truck and they worked with us all day hauling heavy rock and dirt for the inslope turn, which is almost finished.A good turn-out enabled us to make good progress with the trail, drilling a path through an almost impenetrable thicket out into a pleasant open forest on gentle grade - 400 ft. trail dug.   Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  70.0  10   7/7/2010  Completed the remaining 200 ft. of side-hill leading into an insloped turn which lifts us out of the drainage onto comparatively level ground eastward, although covered with heavy thickets of thorny shrubbery. We were unable to complete the turn due to lack of rock, will need to bring the canycom next week to bring in material from further afield.Stopped early due to the heat.Brad Buchanan,Recreation Supervisor for Montgomery County P&R spent the day working with us.   Official 
Coal Mining Heritage Park  Montgomery County  67.5  9   6/30/2010  This 30 acre park, which hosts about 0.6 miles of the Huckleberry Trail, is about mid-way between Blacksburg and Christiansburg. At the invitation of the Montgomery P&R we are providing a different recreational experience in the park by building a natural-surface woodland bike/hike trail through the low hills on either side of the Huckleberry Trail, about 1.2 miles in length.The park is the site of the historic Merrimac Mine, which closed down in 1935. We started work today,just across from the wooden bridge. After a few yards we crossed the first drainage, which is almost dry at this time of the year. We almost completed a somewhat rapid ascent out of the drainage in 200 ft.through a sparse rhododendron stand. The soil is not particularly good material, being somewhat fine and sandy. It was very hot and humid but surprisingly cool back in Roanoke.   Official 
Location Summary for Montgomery County:   Total Project-Days = 20      Volunteer Hours = 1,702.0     Staff Hours = 98.0     Total Hours = 1,800.0
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  None  7.0  1   5/15/2011  Rod Liebl repaired and sharpened a variety of tools over a period of 2 days  Official 
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  None  15.0  3   3/14/2010  We changed the oil in the Witch and Canycom. We jump started the truck and charged the battery for 3 hours. At first it didn't run well untill battery charged. We could not get the Witch started so we changed the plugs, cleaned the fuel pump, changed the fuel filter, changed the air filters and removed the old gas. Then it started right up. We fixed the loose control lever which had two hard to get to screws loose...feels like new now.  Official 
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  None  5.0  1   12/20/2008  A variety of hand tools repaired and sharpened.  Official 
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  None  4.0  1   9/17/2008  Sharpen tools  Official 
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  None  4.0  1   6/18/2008  Sharpen 12 palaskis, 6 McLeodes, and 10 fire rakes. Push fire rake heads down and secure.  Official 
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  None  10.0  1   4/25/2008  Repair,sharpening of fire rakes,pulaskis and McCleods, and replacement of broken handles - 10 hours accumulated over several days.  Official 
Location Summary for None:   Total Project-Days = 6      Volunteer Hours = 45.0     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 45.0
Appalachian Trail  Peters Mountain  66.5  7   7/31/2008  Worked with the Roanoke Appalacian Trail Club and The Konnarock Crew on two AT relocations north of Pine Swamp Shelter.  Official 
Location Summary for Peters Mountain:   Total Project-Days = 1      Volunteer Hours = 66.5     Staff Hours = 0.0     Total Hours = 66.5
Fall Trash Cleanup  Roanoke City  21.0  6   10/3/2009  Fall Waterways Clean Up. We started at the Fallon Park and cleaned up along the Greenway to Wise Ave. We then went along the creek until we reached 24. We found traffic cone, dishwasher door, fishing pole, tennis raquet, tires, and matress. The Mayor and Town Manager of Vinton helped out.   Official 
Raleigh Court Elemenrtary School  Roanoke City  99.5  12   9/3/2008  Last week was rained out.The remaining 408 ft. of trail was built today, using 12A crusher run and fines - and three compactors.Great help from Reggie Snyder who transported the materials for us, also using up all the surplus excavated soil to form protective berms up-slope from the trail.   Official 
Raleigh Court Elemenrtary School  Roanoke City  9.0  2   8/30/2008  Reggie Snyder came with his loader and we excavated the remaining 400 ft. of the "Walk and Talk" trail in preparation for the Wednesday work day.  Official 
Raleigh Court Elemenrtary School  Roanoke City  132.0  17   8/12/2008  Members of the mid-week crew supervised and worked on the "walk and talk" trail with a group of 13 college volunteers called The Rhythm Group. These students are members of local Baptist Churches, who perform public service tasks when home on break from their various schools. We completed the partially excavated trail bed, laid down 4" crusher run and 2" fines with wheelbarrows, and compacted with three compactors,415 ft. of trail, all under a scorching summer sun.   Official 
Roanoke River Greenway Landscaping  Roanoke City  24.0  6   8/7/2010  Helped Kiwanis in the installation of mile markers on the Roanoke River Greenway.  Official 
SPCA Dog Trail  Roanoke City  127.0  17   2/22/2012  TRAIL WAS COMPLETED today (with one minor exception). The hill-top trail was cleared. It has a 30 ft. clearing at the north end, with a view of the Blue Ridge to the east, two very rustic benches, access at each end from the main trail. Mulching was completed. Two sign posts were installed and several large rocks were hauled in from the side of the road - could be made into landscape features if desired. The bank above the steps is not satisfactory, needs cribbing, when we come across some suitable rock we will bring it in and finish this piece.THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TRAIL SYSTEM IS 0.25 MILES>  Official 
SPCA Dog Trail  Roanoke City  111.0  17   2/15/2012  In contrast to last week's miserable weather, today was perfect. We enjoyed pizza and drinks courtesy of the SPCA - nice to be appreciated! Completed the main trail including short set of locust steps at the south end. Used all the mulch. Plan to make a loop with a path along the ridge, with a small park at north end which at present is smothered with vines and brambles.   Official 
SPCA Dog Trail  Roanoke City  65.0  13   2/8/2012  This trail will be about 1/3 of a mile long, flowing around a small wooded knoll adjacent to the main building. It will be used for walking the dogs.We dug about 300ft. today, By lunchtime a light rain had turned the tread into thick mud forcing work to stop. We will obviously have to use a protective mulch.   Official 
SPCA Dog Trail  Roanoke City  24.0  6   2/7/2012  PRELIMINARY WORK for tomorrow's work day. Picked up three truck loads of mulch from the city's public site and deposited them at each end of the trail. Cut locust logs and cleared all the larger timber from the trail route.  Official 
Location Summary for Roanoke City:   Total Project-Days = 9      Volunteer Hours = 607.5     Staff Hours = 5.0     Total Hours = 612.5
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  61.5  9   12/8/2010  The day started well with a boisterous breakfast at Denny's before diving into a beautiful sunny 23 degree morning. The soil was frozen 3-4" but only in patches, and there was no wind. We completed the remaining four to five hundred feet of Meadowview Trail rising steeply to the top corner of the meadow, and installed all of the ten signs we had made. It was too cold to blaze. We have essentially completed our project here in GHP, although the entire trail needs to be regroomed and the climbing turn needs work. We plan to do this when we return to blaze the trails in the Spring.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  29.0  6   12/9/2009  Late start due to heavy over-night rains. The digging was easy on this last segment of the Meadowview Trail, and about 200 ft. of trail were cleared.   Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  100.0  15   11/19/2009  The day was spent in general clean-up and fine-tuning some sections of the Meadow View Trail. Heavy low-hanging clouds finally terminated the work day about 3.00 with the coming of a fine drizzling rain and fog. Next week is an off-day, as the following day is Thanksgiving. The following week we will go to the other end of the park to complete the last 100 yards of trail to the highest corner of the meadow, where a bench and a spectacular view make this a fine destination point.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  89.0  12   11/4/2009  The climbing turn and its upper connection to the upper trail segment, and this upper connection to the existing trail at the top of the meadow, were completed today.   Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  80.0  14   10/28/2009  Heavy rain the previous night tapered off by early morning causing a start delayed to 11AM (except for Dave who was out there working by 9 as usual). However a record turn-out led to a big gain of 330 ft. of new trail. Some difficult transverse shale slabs were encountered.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  90.0  13   10/21/2009  Most of the day was occupied in knocking in a narrow foot-way between the finished trail segments in preparation for public use at the greenway picnic on Sunday. It was a beautiful Fall day, and we enjoyed the wonderful views from the high trail.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  29.5  9   10/14/2009  Continued with the Witch from the water line, moving back towards the turn. Built around and protected the line. Lots of rock ledges and slow going with the Witch. Liz and Dick re-laid out the banked inslope turn. Socked in rain led to early quitting. We are all missing Bill.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  64.0  10   10/7/2009  The crew started from the top of the meadow, working back down, to leave room for adjustment of the climbing turn. About 1:15 Maurice hit a water line with the Witch and broke it. This was the two inch line feeding the equestrian center. Most of the rest of the day was consumed with getting the water shut off.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  105.5  19   9/30/2009  Worked from the curve back down to previously built trail. Maurice on Ditch Witch. North Cross middle school class to help. Beautiful day.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  89.5  13   9/23/2009  Breakfast at Denny's. Progress is slow due to the dense dry soil - 380 ft. new trail - including the climbing turn - done with the help of the ditch witch.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  92.5  13   9/16/2009  About 270 ft. of trail was finished today. The ground is very hard and dry and it is side-hill all the way. Liz brought the Canycon out and we were able to transport enough rock up from the creek to build two crib walls.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  73.0  9   9/9/2009  300 ft. of new trail built. Still on steep cross-slope.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  53.5  7   9/2/2009  Still on steep cross-slope 190 ft. of trail constructed.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  68.5  10   8/26/2009  280 ft. of trail was created across a steep cross-slope. There was a heavy growth of vines and shrubs, and thick clumps of floribunda which required extensive clearing.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  45.0  8   8/19/2009  TODAY we began a new trail (still unnamed) at the eastern end of the park . It will create a nice loop hike from the boy scout bridge, and provide access to the main trail system of the park. About 150 ft. of trail was completed before a heavy thunder storm put a stop to work. The very steep cross-slope and slick mud made conditions dangerous for work.   Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  59.5  9   8/12/2009  The section of trail identified in the park trail assessment as C-1 - a steep badly eroded 300ft. boot-leg piece - was closed and the original trail re-opened, repaired and restructured.See photos.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  45.5  7   10/5/2008  The trail was finished today.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  45.5  7   7/9/2008  the trail was completed today. Total length of trail - 2,687 ft. - just over 1/2 mile - aprox. half of this represents new construction, and half refurbished existing trail.   Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  79.0  11   6/18/2008  Half the day was spent in cribbing and filling over large roots extending across the trail from nearby large buckeye trees. Four pickup loads of dirt were taken from material excavated for the greenway, using the witch witch to load the truck, and the muck truck to distribute along the trail. About 100 ft, of steep side hill also dug, extending the work of last week.   Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  121.0  18   6/11/2008  We finished the section of trail from the park entrance near the shelter down to the greenway connection. Four sites identified where we will have to bring in dirt to mound over large tree roots. Work then continued in the other direction, gradually rising now into dryer woodland along a very steep side-slope. We were joined today by seven members of The Long and Foster real estate firm doing their annual public service day: Steve Turner,Robyn Smeltzer, Elaine Mercer, Tammy Chitwood, Jennifer Schang, Elizabeth Rector, Sheri Reed, Carla Smith and Debbie Powell. The surprise of the day was a delicious cook-out provided by our guests at lunch-time! A summer's day, the shade of the big trees, a cool breeze, wonderful food, lots of conversation and laughter all made for a grand day. We got a lot of work done too.   Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  162.7  30   6/7/2008  NATIONAL TRAILS DAY -- This special day was a cooperative event sponsored by The Roanoke County Department of Parks and Recreation and Tourism, and The Roanoke Valley Greenways. Thirty people braved the sweltering heat to dig over 250ft. of new trail- unofficially dubbed The Buck Eye Trail by trail volunteers because of the beautiful mature stand of massive buck eye trees and countless saplings encountered along the way. The trail originates on the county's new section of Roanoke River Greenway, and it will provide wonderful opportunities for circuit routes from the park or the greenway when it is complete. The day provided a great partnership - The county supplied a wonderful fried chicken lunch and gallons of cold drinks, and greenway enthusiasts supplied the muscle! See photos.  Official 
Green Hill Park  Roanoke County  64.0  9   6/4/2008  The trailway was cleared in preparation for National Trails Day next Saturday.  Official 
Izaac Walton Natural Area  Roanoke County  21.0  3   3/28/2009  About 30 members turned out for this project. About 700 ft. of trail were built(not wheeled) along the forested hilly eastern side of the lake, using three teams, one for the northern section, one for the southern section, and one for the steps in the middle. This was an excellent day's work. The rain which had been persistant for several days held off until 2.30 when most of the work had been completed. We were treated with an excellent lunch, a cap, and a year's free membership each, with park privileges for one year.  Unofficial 
Izaac Walton Natural Area  Roanoke County  7.0  2   3/17/2009  Met with Bob Pitner, Fred Cramer and several other representatives on-site to offer suggestios for the design and construction of a trail around the lake. Pin flags were set out. A set of steps will be needed. Locust trees are available. Several hundred feet of significant side-hill construction will be necessary. A league work-day is scheduled for 3/28/09, between 20 and 30 workers are anticipated. The offer of Pathfinder's tools and guidance for the work-day was accepted.  Unofficial 
Jubilee Acres - Faith Christian School Project  Roanoke County  17.0  2   4/26/2008  Pathfinders was consulted in the establishment of a switch-back from the existing trail system up to a high rocky point - preliminary planning of trail lay-out involved two visits of three hours each. On the actual work day Malcolm Black and Bill Gordge supervised a team of eight students in the clearing and blazing of the trail, which was about 300 yards long.   Official 
Jubilee Acres - Faith Christian School Project  Roanoke County  3.0  1   4/24/2008  Laid out new trail with pin flags. Discussed work day with school staff.  Official 
Jubilee Acres - Faith Christian School Project  Roanoke County  3.0  1   4/12/2008  Met with Crennie Reed et al to go over the existing trail system and make suggestions for a switch-back to a higher rocky point.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  127.5  17   4/4/2012  The Overlook Spur Trail and view-point were completed. The corrective measures at the lower switch-back were completed. The whole crew went on down and improved a steep drainage crossing with rock steps, and worked on a short relo at the base of the mountain. In several short stretches vertical back cuts were corrected and partial benching turned into full bench, but a lot more of this could be done.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  160.0  20   3/27/2012  POOR MOUNTAIN REVISITED - Today's goals were-(1) to extend the Overlook Spur to a more appropriate view point. The new destination has indeed a commanding and dramatic and unobstructed view westward - this accomplished without disturbing any Table Mountain Pine - and will justify the trail name - Overlook Trail (2) Reconfigure two poorly constructed switch-backs on the Cascade Trail, considered to be hazardous.The work was strenuous and slow,but all were well pleased with the effort. We are about 10% short of completion on both goals. We hope to finish in a timely manner next week, so the full crew can go further on down the mountain to re-align about 100 yards of trail across a side drainage.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  70.0  10   8/16/2010  The crew returned today to perform some finishing touches - while DCR staff built the kiosk, we cleared the site for the kiosk, blazed the Overlook Trail,cleared out some barbed wire fences, put together three benches and installed them, toting them in with the Muck Truck (which gave us a great deal of mechanical trouble) clipped summer growth and set up numerous posts.This finishes our duties on the preserve. It has been a great asignment!  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  63.0  9   6/23/2010  This was a short FINAL DAY, mainly finishing up the overlook site and its spur trail, the last set of steps, some clipping, some cribbing, spreading excess duff. We celebrated at the overlook with cider and snacks while we watched the much expected storm boil down the valley from the north, only to veer off to the west at the last minute,treating us to a stiff cool breeze and a few rain drops. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WORK SUMMARY OVERLOOK TRAIL Date started - 12/16/09 Date finished - 6/23/10 Total number Wednesdays this period -28. Days excluded due to public holidays or bad weather - 7 Number of days actually worked - 21 Assuming 5 days/week - duration of work 4 months one week. Total number of worker days -204 Total number of volunteer hours - 1,540 Length of trail including overlook spur - 3846 ft. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  105.5  13   6/16/2010  The rock steps and approx 200 yards of the overlook spur trail were completed today. We expect to finish up this project next week. This trail has 128 rock steps.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  82.5  11   6/9/2010  We completed the main trail today, ending near the future connection to the third and final segment of the loop trail. Because the terminus is not an overlook Bryan Wender has identified a point much higher up the slope which will offer a dramatic trail setting with an expansive view. It will require a spur trail and some more rock steps, which we will work on next week.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  75.0  10   6/2/2010  A good day.Continued work on side of last ridge, work much easier now as not so steep.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  71.0  10   5/26/2010  The rock crew is finally close to finishing the step work, and the trail crew is making good progress ahead, about 200 ft. new trail built on 60 to 70 degrees of cross-slope.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  99.5  13   5/19/2010  The threatened rain did not appear, and we had a beautiful day.Two groups worked on rock steps and have almost finished. The rest of the crew made excellent progress ( 250 ft.) along the last ridge-side which has an incredible 70 degree cross-slope. Jim R worked on hardening the third and final drainage, and Blanche did a good job raking clearing brush, and cutting through large pine blow-downs with a hand saw.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  88.0  12   5/12/2010  Good progress made with the rock work, four groups working on individual locations. The remainder of the crew pushed the trail down to the next drainage on very steep terrain.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  65.0  9   5/5/2010  The day was spent mainly on rock steps. We had a good day but the going is slow.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  60.0  8   4/28/2010  Continued working on rock steps and trail.Flame azaleas in full bloom.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  75.0  10   4/21/2010  We spent the day building a long flight of rock steps and about 150 ft. of trail dropping down the north slope of the second ridge.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  55.0  10   4/14/2010  About 150 ft. of trail built today. Progress is slow as we are in steep rocky terrain requiring plenty of cribbing and step construction. This is a very rugged and challenging area and great fun to work in - open piney woods on a high steep rocky slope with stunning views. Today we were pleased to see nice colonies of Gay Wings ( Fringed Polygala) which perhaps would be expected in deeper moister woods.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  99.0  14   4/7/2010  Today brought the first hint of summer with temperatures in the low 90's. However low humidity, cool breezes,, and a visit by Liz with popsicles made it a good day. Nice progress was made along the steep slope of the second ridge, with about 250 ft. of trail built.This south slope is hotter and dryer, no rhododendron, open piney woods, mainly table mountain pine, a smattering of pirate bush.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  90.0  12   3/31/2010  Beautiful Spring weather and a large enthusiastic crew made for excellent progress today. The rock work was completed in the first ravine, making 4 sets of steps. Meanwhile, the main group pushed on through the steep shrubby north slope, doing a nice job to the second drainage, going their own set of steps and an impressive rock crossing of the drainage.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  116.0  15   3/24/2010  The rock steps coming out of the first drainage were completed, and most of the first major switch-back also. The remainder of the crew worked on new trail on the steep north slope, about 150 ft. done.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  70.0  9   3/17/2010  About 150 ft. of trail new built on difficult steep side slope. The snow has now gone from the first deep drainage allowing, us to go back and start the rock work we had skipped over. Using the Canycon, good progress was made building rock steps up out of the drainage.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  61.5  9   3/10/2010  The snow cover has finally melted sufficiently to permit resumption of work on the Overlook Trail. About 150 ft. of trail was built today The views are now spectacular.The north slope of the ridge is very steep and rocky, and covered with dense thickets of laurel and spindly rhododendron, also a nice sprinkling of table mountain pine and pirate bush. The going is slow.We welcome Stu Hubble on his first outing with the group.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  6.0  1   3/3/2010  One lone worker, driven bonkers with cabin fever, struggled valiantly out the snow packed trail to the work site which was clear of snow and put in a pretty good day's work digging side-hill.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  89.5  13   1/27/2010  Good progress made, 445 ft. of new trail, with a big crew. Steep side-hill, some rocky patches. Rounding the end of the first side ridge.Beautiful winter day - clear sunny cold.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  72.5  10   1/20/2010  We resumed work on the Overlook Trail today. Recent rain and warming weather finally cleared the parking lot and access trail of ice and snow. We had a pleasant and productive morning, but a fine drizzle began by noon, building to steady rain by mid-afternoon and the water-laden soil soon became unmanageable. We completed much of the lower loop of the first switch-back down to the creek and set a few more rock steps.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  96.0  12   12/16/2009  This was the first work day on the new OVERLOOK TRAIL, one of three sections which will eventually form an approx. four mile loop around the preserve. The aproximate route has already been marked by Len Sutton, a professional trail builder. It starts near the junction of the existing loop trail, runs in a northerly direction, crosses three drainages and ends high on the flank of Twelve O'Clock Knob. About 200 ft. of side-hill were dug today, dropping down into the first drainage. A short set of steps were constructed. DCR staffers,Bryan Wender and Al shire did the chain saw work, and Hugh Scruggs from our crew assisted with clipping and pulling brush.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  69.0  9   7/15/2009  Hardening of dirt road at spring seepage was completed today. Small frog pond created below grade. Another 25 yards of new trail defines route from lower end of access road to main trail and so completes this project.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  71.5  10   7/8/2009  Part of the crew completed touch-up jobs on the trail, while the rest of us began hardening the access road near its lower end, where there is considerable seepage from a spring located up-slope. A 12 foot wide ditch was excavated with the ditch witch, this was filled with rip-rap and covered with rail-road ballast (supplied by DCR). The delivery truck was too big to go down the access road. Faced with a veritable mountain of rip-rap dropped at the road entrance 1/4 of a mile from the work site,a distress call was made to our unsinkable greenway coordinator, Liz Belcher, who staged a dramatic rescue, arriving soon after with the greenway pickup truck and our new tracked rock carrier. She stayed and helped out, and we really moved the rock! We welcomed Jim Brown who joined us today for the first time.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  66.0  9   7/1/2009  We essentially finished the loop today with another 400 ft. of new trail. A little touch-up work remains, and the major task of hardening a short stretch of the vehicular access road where it is crossed by a seepage from a spring up-slope.It is depressing to note that the attractive educational sign in the parking lot has been stolen.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  62.5  10   6/24/2009  Slow day. Running into a dense rocky shelf and a huge stubborn root. Took a long respite in the middle of the day for a surprise celebration of Jim O's birthday, with a delicious monster cookie supplied by Kathy, suitably decorated. Jim had business in town that morning and was almost late to his own surprise party,as we were gearing up for the celebration when he surprised us by arriving. We also welcomed Ron Reese on his first day with the crew.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  57.0  8   6/17/2009  Good day, with 450 ft. of new trail.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  60.0  8   6/10/2009  450 ft. of trail built with ground now getting easier to work.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  60.0  8   6/3/2009  350 ft. of trail built. Routine day.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  51.0  9   5/27/2009  About 150 ft. of trail was roughed in. Intermittent rain following on yesterday's heavy downpours made the soil unmanageable, so work was discontinued soon after lunch.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  0.0  0   5/20/2009  Rained out  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  75.0  10   5/13/2009  200ft of trail built. We also had to construct a set of steps because of the steep terrain but a site was chosen where vehicles could by-pass the steps if necessary.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  83.5  11   4/29/2009  We continue to make good progress. Visit by Mark Taylor and press photographers today! Estimate 400 to 500 ft. of new trail.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  158.0  24   4/25/2009  This was a PUBLIC WORK DAY sponsored by Pathfinders and DCR, in recognition of Earth Day. A total of 24 adults and children attended, about 150 ft. of trail was built, the weather was delightful, Pathfinders supplied lunch, drinks, snacks,water bottles, T-shirts and greenway maps, and DCR supplied a range of instructive literature on The Natural Heritage Program and The Poor Mounrain Preserve. See photos.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  59.5  9   4/22/2009  We had an excellent Day's work with 600 ft. of new trail built. We lost the left track of the Witch again, but having the right tools on hand, and the experience of the first episoode, it did not take long to re-set it.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  65.0  10   4/15/2009  A good progress with 400 ft. of trail built.The highlight of the day was the celebration of Peggy's birthday with a delicious luncheon supplied by Buz Gordge, a toast with hot spiced cider, and gifts and cards - see photos.   Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  49.0  8   4/8/2009  Began excavation of new trail with the Ditch Witch.One team worked ahead of the machine, clearing brush and duff and pulling stumps. One group worked behind the machine, hand-finishing the rough spots. Left track came off the DW, required considerable effort to reposition.  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke County  56.0  8   4/1/2009  This trail is going to be a nature trail which will be built to a width of 5 to 6 ft. so that it will also serve as a fire break for controlled burns as part of the preserve management program. For this reason, the ditch Witch will be used. The ground was quite soft due to much rain, and we stopped work at 3PM due to cold rain setting in. We brushed out the first part of the trail in preparation for the DW, and continued modifying the route to minimize impact on Pirate Bush stands.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  120.0  16   2/1/2012  FINAL DAY. The trail team went to the top of the short cut to clean up the unfinished portions, and also to define the trailway down from the big stairs to the cliff-top. The step team built the connection from the main trail to the new trail. The trails await names and directional signs. Note- a small group will return to modify the trail just above the parking lot, where there are some minor design problems. We need the ditch witch to do this.  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  120.0  16   1/25/2012  Steps and connector trail completed. Some minor trail work to be done and the entrance to the main trail still needs to be built.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  97.5  13   1/19/2012  Work continues on the long set of stone steps. Approx.250ft. of new trail completed.  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  82.5  11   1/12/2012  Lower set of steps completed, finding the single strap works best off-trail dragging big rock over longer distances.Now working on finishing up the upper set and the mid-level landing. Trail team going well with 200 ft. new trail.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  138.0  18   1/4/2012  Full crew turn-out - everybody glad to be back after the two week break for the holidays. Temp in the high 20's but bright sun and no wind, so a great day to work! We are building the short-cut connector trail between our new trail and the Buzzard's Rock Trail several hundred feet above. We split into 3 groups - one starting on a lower set of steps from the lower trail, one starting on upper steps, connecting up with the third group starting on the actual connecting trail. This will be an interesting section of trail - a long run of steps, and a trail dipping and turning through big qnarly trees, many rock formations,and another nice cliff face,which today was a glittering wall of icicles lit up by the bright sunshine. The ice showed no sign of melting all day.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  120.0  16   12/14/2011  By lunch time we finished the remaining 100 ft. between both ends of the trail thus completing the loop. Ron R produced a golden spike (a rusty old iron peg wrapped in glorious golden foil) to mark the spot. The moment was documented on camera and solemnly toasted with champaign supplied by Ron C. In the afternoon we toted all the tools back to the big cliff - still unnamed - and began the challenging task of developing a connecting trail to the Buzzard's Roost Trail, about 1200 ft. up-slope.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  77.0  11   12/8/2011  Yesterday's regular work day was rained out, but today being gloriously sunny, we were able to muster a group to work. Good progress was made despite the tedious rock and root nature of the soil. We have about 100 ft. of trail remaining to connect the two ends.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  120.0  17   11/30/2011  A full crew today, took advantage of the window of great weather.We were able to build a surprising 300 ft.of trail through tedious rock and root terrain, and a set of steps possibly the last for this trail.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  128.0  16   11/2/2011  Although about half of the crew labored with heavy rock step work all day, the rest of the crew made impressive headway with about 200 ft. of new trail.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  124.5  16   10/26/2011  The rain has finally cleared. Despite a full crew progress was really slow as we are threading our way across a steep 50 yard wide rock sheet. At the end of the day we were till not finished.The work is difficult and not without hazard. We were very pleased to have the help of Timo Grueneberg today, a member of the RATC, and an accomplished trail worker.Ron and later Liz came out to visit.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  37.0  8   10/19/2011  By the time everybody had collected in the parking lot the rain was coming down in a steady drizzle. The group decided to go on anyway. It never stopped and by lunch time the wind began to blow and the trail was turning into mud.One hundred ft.of new trail. The end.   Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  101.5  13   10/5/2011  Beautiful crisp early Fall day. Here we are working through typical Read Mt. country where it is hard for a tree to make a living. Mature open hardwood forest on boulder-strewn cross- slopes varying from gentle, where the digging is fair, to dizzy with stubborn rocky outcrops where the digging is rough. Here and there are very large, very old twisted gnarley chestnut and red oaks and probably other species too. Despite numerous slow stretrches, 300 ft. of trail built today, with a pretty set of steps built by Tom B and Jim B.Had a visit from Ron Crawford.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  96.0  12   9/28/2011  This was a relaxed lazy kind of a day with good company and beautiful fall weather and so it was surprising to find at the end of the day we had built 250 ft of trail - for once the mountain was kind to us with easy digging, but by mid-afternoon we were back into a 60 degree side slope and soil thick with irregular rock chunks from 5 to 150 lbs.in size and very slow progress - but the new light picks really showed their value! Ideal tool for this type of terrain.   Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  82.5  11   9/21/2011  Most of the crew worked on the major project of building a set of rock steps ( which we had been putting off) into the third major switch-back leading to the cliff-top. It required hauling heavy rock in the rock net from a 50 yard radius, so it was rough going, but we finished up by mid-afternoon. The small crew out ahead was also having rock problems and built about 50 ft. of trail.  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  82.5  15   9/14/2011  The work continues. The changing terrain will make this a pleasant trail, now little elevation change - 320 ft of trail constructed mostly side-hill with plenty of rocks to dig out.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  123.5  15   8/31/2011  Good progress today with a large crew and easier terrain. - 350 ft trail built. We are trying out a new systew in which each crew member has picked out a pulaski of choice and will be responsible for its care and maintenance. Please look at attached photo of Jim B's shining example of how it is done - let Jim be an inspiration to us all - note it has a little dirt on it that is because I did not think to take the picture until he had been working for an hour or so, I suggested he spit on it to clean it off but he wasn't amused . We welcomed Lynn B back after prolonged recovery from a back injury.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  109.0  14   8/24/2011  A standard day's work for Read Mt. - with a large crew and beautiful weather appreciated after all the heat and humidity, we built about 200 ft. of trail on steep side hill with lots of cribbing and moving large rock, French Drain across a deep drainage ditch, and the trail contoured through a fortunate breach in a transverse band of rock blocking our way. Two sets of steps.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  97.5  13   8/17/2011  Breakfast at Denny's. Finished up the 25 ft. of trail approaching the platform on top of the cliff, finished the clearing where appropriate on the cliff-top and viewshed, and completed another 200 ft. of trail through difficult rocky terrain. Maybe it only seemed tough because of the huge breakfast.Three sets of steps.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  67.5  9   8/3/2011  150 ft. trail cleared,now close to flat area on top of the cliff. Clearing of viewshed begun and thick brush and blowdowns on the platform area.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  89.0  13   7/20/2011  150 ft. of new trail built, very sandy soil, now emerging onto the cliff-face, some minor clearing done to enhance the view. Small crew clearing the easy pieces for the lower cliff trail.Lower trail passes within 20 yards of a buzzard's "nest" ie a flat rock near the top of the ravine wall well hidden by an overhanging slab - containing one chick which is about the size of a large hen, white except for black fringes on wings and tail - totally ignored us - and we were careful to stay clear, did not see the parents, although usually there are one or two adults hanging around this area.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  30.0  10   7/13/2011  Worked 1/2 day and then repaired to the Baldwin lake house for some much deserved R&R during this record breaking heat.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  77.0  11   7/6/2011  Despite very high temp and humidity we cut in almost 300 ft. of trail helped now and then by a little puff of a breeze.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  88.0  11   6/15/2011  Fairly easy digging along the upper arm of the first switch-back about 200ft.of trail constructed. Step building group had problems - step-rock hard to find and transport, soil full of roots and rock - still not finished at the end of the day. Janet Scheid paid a surprise visit at lunch-time with a plate of wonderful brownies! Much appreciated!Also, the much anticipated bad weather missed us completely - the occasional faint cool breeze was a life-saver and made for a pleasant day.( 6/8/11-AT)  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  82.0  12   6/1/2011  We made good use of the DW, our second day to have it on this section, cutting about 300 ft. but with much finishing work to be done. One nice set of steps. Tom B doing a nice job with the chain saw work.A good day despite the excessive heat.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  104.0  13   5/25/2011  This is the first day of work from the northern end of the lower loop trail. Using the DW we cut through a difficult steep cross-sope on the initial leg of the first switch back passing through a sparse stand of big old oak trees.  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  0.0  0   5/4/2011  Rained out ( 5/11 - Mountain lake - 5/18 - storm damage repair CMHT B'bg)  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  162.0  24   4/27/2011  Finally emerged from the rocky section of the mountain three more sets of steps,, one difficult set left to be done next week. Thirteen North Cross students and their two advisors spent the day with us. They worked on the next section ahead, a beautiful open woodland area, on gentle terrain with scattered stately old oak trees all around.Over 500 ft. of trail built.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  107.5  13   4/20/2011  A small crew and difficult terrain made for slow progress today. About 150 ft. of trail built. But in addition,, Lyn built a 30 ft. spur trail to a rocky outcrop, and Tom and Hugh did a great job building a much-needed 30 ft. crib wall. A rugged rocky knoll had to be crossed head-on. A small team combined efforts to create a dramatic trail feature - built a set of steps for the approach, plucked out various sized boulders across the top,dropped down the other side on a well-designed side-hill trail - a day long project but well worth the effort.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  107.5  14   4/6/2011  250 ft. trail built today.Very rocky.Included here is a large flat rock with a spectacular view. The terrain is shortly going to become less challenging with less rock and more open woodland.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  0.0  0   3/30/2011  Rained out  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  143.0  18   3/23/2011  We are still in the most challenging part of this trail, with 50 to 75 percent cross-slopes in many stretches, and much rock. About 200 ft. of trail built today. Lyn B. and a small crew still stuck at the head of the first cove crossing, building heavy duty steps down through a breach in the large sheet of rock which forms the head-wall of the drainage. We welcome Bud Laroche out with us for the first time, and Ron Ross who successfully avoided the earth quake during an extended hiking trip in New Zealand,   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  111.5  15   3/16/2011  Slow progress through rocky terrain. 200 ft. Two short sets of steps.Several view sites.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  111.0  14   3/2/2011  About 150 ft. of trail was cleared today,slow going through very rough and rocky terrain. One team spent the morning adding steps and regrading an earlier section. Lyn B has worked for three days on carving a safe and easy passage through an interesting trail feature - it is the only breach (we had to go there) in a highly eroded anticlinal wall - limited on one side by a precipitous drop-off. Did a great job carving a wider passage, building steps, moving mighty boulders and creating a safe buffer against the drop-off. A one man machine!   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  118.0  15   2/16/2011  We are now entering an intersting area of sandstone rock ledges and fractured strata making for ever-changing trail configurations with glimpses of excellent views off to the south-east. Some steps. About 200 yards of trail built today.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  117.0  16   2/9/2011  Progress was slow today because the trail must cross a tilted sandstone sheet some 30 yards wide. We used a fault line for about 1/2 the distance. A set of steps was built.   Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  83.0  13   2/2/2011  DAY 1 - STARTING NEW TRAIL - MIDDLE ELEVATION - TO COMPETE READ MOUNTAIN LOOP - beginning today at the south end accessed from Summit Ridge Rd. Despite the late start, ( early rain and heavy fog - then glorious day despite winter turmoil throughout most of the country),225 ft. of side-hill built be an enthusiastic crew cutting across very steep side-slope - as well as a set of steps. Trail curves around a magnificent rock formation, and the steps pass a big hollow tree with cavities creating a fearsom smiling face. Huge sheet of rock before us.This is going to be a fun trail!  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  99.5  13   10/22/2008  The crew returned for one more day prior to tomorrow's official opening of the park, as we decided there was still a need to improve several stretches of the old trail high up on the mountain. It was well worth the effort, about 400 ft. of old tread were re-worked. Newspaper photographer Sam Dean spent the morning with us.   Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  72.5  10   10/15/2008  This was the final work day on the trail in preparation for the opening of the preserve officially by the county management on the 23rd of this month. Long stretches of the former red trail have been improved as they have been incorporated into the Buzzard Rock Trail, the only official trail onto the mountain at this time. Three sets of rock steps were also completed today.All the signs are in place. County personnel were putting the finishing touches on the trail-head as we left.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  84.0  12   10/8/2008  Completed the two rock step switchbacks left from last week. Started a rather long winding rock stair switchback with a 50 yd. relo above. Some random tread improvements were also done. Blazing finished. Expect to complete next week.Met county workers installing signs!  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  85.0  11   10/1/2008  This report documents touch-up tasks suggested by Janet Scheid (county coordinator) and Liz Belcher ( Greenway Coordinator)to prepare The Buzzard Rock Trail(name?) for the park opening. Feet from start - 1475 - take down overhead tree- done 2700 - block off mine - done 3910 - improve transition zone between new trail and red trail, eradicate red trail and blazes down-slope - done 4113 - obliterate green trail crossing - done ( signs to be removed) 4400 - improve switchback - done 4691 - improvements to trail - partially completed 5123 - rebuild switchback - partially completed 5772 - odliterate obliterate green trail down-slope -done 5898 - Obliterate green trail on right - done 8296 - close ditch road both sides - done. Signs to be removed. 9693 - Close red trail - done signe remain. 9384 - Close access to ridge - done 10243 - Trail closed at the rocks - Closed 10243 - About 2/3 of trail blazed (light blue) Small sections of the old red rrail have been improved. Tasks remaining to be done - Remove signs, complete 2 switch back.redo poor sections of trail.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  67.0  11   5/14/2008  DAY #15 - Last 200 ft. of trail completed by 2PM, we walked the entire section for general clean-up and touch-up and attention to several run-off issues.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  80.5  11   4/30/2008  Day #14 - Additonal land has been donated to Roanoke County to enable us to return and safely negotiate the "pinch point" previously described. About half of the 500 ft. of connecting trail was built today over a steep grade, requiring several short sets of steps, and an series of small switch-backs.  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  76.0  10   4/9/2008  Day # 13 - The last 200 ft. of trail was completed today,connecting up with the pre-existing red/green trail. We dug some serious side-hill and built a 30 ft long rock crib wall, hardened a second cross-seepage(first one done earlier in week),and finished the french drain.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  67.5  9   4/2/2008  Day #12 - Half the crew spent the day building a french drain across and active but tiny stream, using large boulders for outer walls enclosing broken rock for the elevated trail bed. The other half of the crew cut about 100 ft. of nice full-bench trail across very steep side- hill, getting us out of the ravine. About 200 ft. of trail left to build, however we will need to return to complete the switch-back around the "pinch point" when the land negotiations are complete, and then open the trail from the parking lot across the grassy field to the power line where our work begins.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  81.0  10   3/26/2008  Day #11 - The present terrain is interesting and challenging. We are working our way up a narrow gully with a difficult rocky outcrop to cut through, a small stream which obviously carries a lot of water at times and has been all over the floor of the gully at different times.and soil sandy and easy to work in places and rocky and dense with roots and duff in other places,we also exposed a small spring deep in the duff, which now cuts across the trail bed. Jim O, Jim R, and Bill chipped away at thhe outcrop for half the day to establish a good trail bed. Lyn, Maurice, Eddie, and Jim R worked with heavy blocks and ropes and chains to work up a massive buttress in a plunging gap in the rocky outcrop (see photos) Dave,Eddie, and Peggy relocated the stream back into its ancestral course away from the trail, and about 75 yards of trail were dug. John McLaughlin (BSA - T-417) took advantage of Spring break to come out and learn to dig side-hill today. John is earning his Eagle Scout award by coordinating work in clearing sections of this trail.He was accompanied by his father Kevin.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  76.0  10   3/12/2008  Day #10 - Continued side-hill into the final drainage 450 ft. soil becomming rocky again. Very pleasant day.  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  89.0  11   3/5/2008  DAY #9 - 200ft.trail dug,mainly side-hill, and one intermittant drainage hardened with large flat rock.Extremely picturesque setting, trail meandering through nice hardwood forest on easy grade.  Official 
Read mountain  Roanoke County  68.5  9   2/28/2008  Day #8 - 325ft. trail constructed, steep side-hill.Trail curves around large picturesque boulder Out of sight about 100 ft. down-slope is opening of old iron mine, soil of trail-bed here is a deep rusty-red from high iron content.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  70.0  10   2/20/2008  Day #7 - The day was mostly spent in building rock steps and moving large boulders, also 150 ft. of trail was built.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  83.5  11   2/6/2008  Day #6 - Plenty of rock work today, Maurice and Mac added 10 more steps to the 5 from last week to complete the difficult but spectacular switch-back on the side of the ravine, the rest of the group threading the trail through the boulder field and now finally back out into open forest on easy side-hill with about 100 ft. of new trail laid down.See photos.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  75.8  11   1/30/2008  Day#5- Most of the day was spent in the rocks, but emerging now high up on the reverse arm of a switch-back, one team still working on steps. We welcome Jason Kent, who lives in the neighbourhood, and Ron Crawford who got us all into this in the first place.  Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  73.0  11   1/23/2008  Day#4- We are now passing through an interesting rock formation. Very prominent is a tilted sandstone wall - 10 to 20 ft. high and 10 to 20 ft. wide, which can be seen running down the ravine, across, and up the far side in a giant "U". This probably represents the root of a giant dome. Up-hill is sandstone scree - a jumble of rocks up to school-bus size, probably representing the collapsed remnants of the eroded and fractured dome.(A visiting geologist told us that Read mountain was 24,000 ft. high several million years ago!) This is a great trail environment, but makes for slow and difficult work. We are using 4 pry bars and 3 teams, well- separated for safety reasons, the remainder of the crew away ahead out of the main boulder field digging trail. We will be in here for several more days. See photos.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  71.5  13   1/16/2008  Day #3 - 500ft. of new trail built, good progress due to big turnout, and easy soil, mainly silt with some clay and virtually no rocks.   Official 
Read Mountain  Roanoke County  61.0  8   1/9/2008  Day #2 - We enjoyed an unseasonably warm and cloudless day. Built 375 ft. of trail, easy grade, mild side-hill, fine silty soil alternating with clay patches and areas made difficult by roots and fractured rock.  Official 
Tinker Creek/Carvin Creek Greenway  Roanoke County  120.5  17   5/2/2012  Easy trail work and large crew makes for good progress through a very nice open mature hardwood cove extending from the gas line ROW down-hiill for about 300 yds towards Plantation Rd.A smaller group struggled to clear the dense blackberry thicket beneath the power line.This is a difficult piece with steep terrain - we plan to bring the Ditch Witch out for this.  Official 
Tinker Creek/Carvin Creek Greenway  Roanoke County  97.5  13   4/25/2012  Last week's work was continued, the trail was extended another 100 yards, and some work was done on regrooming. Ed Dickerson and Andrew Miller brought 13 North Cross students who worked with the crew (and did a good job)- until 2 PM.  Official 
Tinker Creek/Carvin Creek Greenway  Roanoke County  112.8  15   4/6/2012  Mid Week Crew and Pathfinders volunteers worked with Hollins students to build trail on Hollins University property.   Official 
Tinker Creek/Carvin Creek Greenway  Roanoke County  9.0  3   1/14/2009  The proposed route through Hollins College from Williamson Rd. to the interstate underpass was further cleared and made easily accessible for review by college staff.  Official 
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  Roanoke County  5.0  1   10/15/2010  Various tools were repaired and sharpened  Official 
Tool & Equipment Maintenance  Roanoke County  3.0  1   10/9/2010  Sharpened about a dozen pulaskis.  Official 
Wolf Creek Greenway  Roanoke County  87.0  11   5/28/2008  (2)The crew split into two teams - Lynn had a plan to repair the badly vandalised and eroded trail approaching the Rt.24 bridge from the south. Maurice worked the ditch witch steadily the whole day, with great help from the three Jims - O,P,and R and a huge amount of work was done - involving a 30 ft. crib wall of massive (hopefully, vandal-proof)rock, filled in with RR ballast, and topped with sand excavated out of the middle box culvert. The other team finished up the section from last week, compacting 20 tons of fines, there being enough left over to spread over the unfinished 100 ft. section on the other side of the overpass. See photos.  Official 
Wolf Creek Greenway  Roanoke County  75.0  10   5/21/2008  (1)The aim of this project was to build the 135 ft. of unfinished greenway north from the new Mountain View overpass, and also to install a farm gate at the top end of the section.Using the ditch witch, muck truck and wheelbarrows, we excavated a 2 - 4 inch bed - eight ft. wide, 40 tons of excellent quality crusher run were laid and compacted. The gate was installed leaving a 40" wide handicap access.  Official 
Location Summary for Roanoke County:   Total Project-Days = 128      Volunteer Hours = 9,877.2     Staff Hours = 108.0     Total Hours = 9,985.2
Lick Run Bridge  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  102.0  28   1/28/2012  This was the "finish it" day. We installed deck and rails. Many hands makes light work and we had many hands. We were almost done by lunch, but food prevailed and we finished up shortly thereafter.  Official 
Lick Run Bridge  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  52.3  10   1/25/2012  A GE work day organized by Mike Franke. We drilled and set the posts, installed the blocking between beams, and installed the face plates at the end. Special thanks to Steve Schmitt for bringing his many saws and to Shannon Palmer for the walk boards and lumber delivery.   Official 
Lick Run Bridge  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  36.0  10   1/19/2012  Bridge beams delivered by the City in the morning. Crew set and bolted them down in afternoon.  Official 
Lick Run Bridge  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  35.7  13   1/7/2012  Site prep and sill installation. Dug trenches 2' deep, filled with gravel, set sills, squared.  Official 
Lick Run Bridge  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  9.0  3   1/6/2012  Delivered gravel to the bridge site to go in the trench on Sat. Thanks to Bill Palmer for use of his antique dump truck. Then set up batter boards and squaring system.  Unofficial 
Lick Run Bridge  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  7.0  4   1/5/2012  Met at site with Don Witt, who was to help with drawing details for volunteers, and with Shannon Palmer, who helped layout and square.  Unofficial 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  94.3  22   10/6/2009  North Cross students stained bridge. 19 students, 2 school staff and one Pathfinders volunteer.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  6.0  2   10/5/2008  Made lunch for following bridge building day.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  8.5  3   9/4/2008  This was the final, final work day. Finished the last rail section and cleared out remaining materials.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  26.5  9   8/26/2008  Moved extra stone, thanks to a dump truck from Matt and a loader from Reggie. Added two screws to all pickets to meet inspection. Glue caps. Filled post holes.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  4.5  2   8/20/2008  At the bridge, moved 21A from sidewalk to parking lot. Unloaded riprap  Unofficial 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  10.5  3   8/1/2008  Poured sidewalk at end of bridge.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  4.0  1   7/30/2008  Concrete poured today.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  29.0  10   7/29/2008  "Final" wrap up of railings, screwdown, deck, grading of parking lot drainage.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  81.0  11   7/23/2008  Fines added to lower ramp, walls, pickets and hand rails completed. Clean-up. Fill and side walk yet to be added to upper ramp to complete the project.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  77.0  10   7/16/2008  About 16 tons of compacted 21A crusher run completed filling up the lower ramp. Walls mostly completed. More work on hand rails.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  54.5  8   7/2/2008  Fishburn bridge - The day was spent working on the lower ramp, the block walls were essentially completed, most of the side rails installed, the ramp fill compacted as layered in, will need more material to top up to grade.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  57.0  8   6/27/2008  Fishburn bridge - began work on lower ramp - started the block side walls, set the hand rail uprights and began the side rails.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  15.0  6   6/10/2008  Pickets  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  54.0  9   5/24/2008  Decking, vertical posts  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  27.0  9   5/20/2008  Decking, vertical posts  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  152.0  19   5/17/2008  Bridge work  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  65.0  10   5/15/2008  FISHBURN BRIDGE - Mid-week crework worked on the bridge today with installation of several sections of decking, side rails and pickets. Stopped at 3.30 with beginning of heavy rain.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  27.0  9   5/14/2008  Decking, vertical posts  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  18.0  6   5/13/2008  Decking, vertical posts  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  82.5  12   5/10/2008  deck, joists, let-through boards  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  167.0  21   5/3/2008  Bridge work with GE folks  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  235.1  35   4/26/2008  PATHFINDERS MAJOR EVENT - Bridge construction in Fishburn Park - first big work day with GE Elfun volunteers. Put up bridge frame and side posts. continue tomorrow.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  15.0  3   4/22/2008  Fishburn bridge - Concrete poured and anchor bolts set.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  32.5  7   4/21/2008  Fishburn Bridge - The forms for the two concrete abutments were constructed. Hope to pour tomorrow.  Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  92.0  14   4/16/2008  FISHBURN PARK BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION - DAY #1 - Ron and Tim came out early and marked the sites for the footers - 14 in number - 24 inches square and deep.They also marked the locations of the two abutments. Under beautiful spring skies, the mid-week crew dug the holes for the footers and abutments. See phopographs. While this was being done,the forms were being constructed for the concrete abutments. We now await inspection of the foundations,and when approved,the pouring of the concrete. The build-date for the bridge is April 26 - by the GE Elfun group,and others. It is expected that it may well take more than one day to build. Pathfinders gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution of time and expertise by retired architect, Ron Crawford, who is overseeing the design and construction of the structure, and we also recognize Tim Cribbs, project manager, who is coordinating all the details and recruiting the group of GE Elfuns,and others to build the bridge, and we also acknowledge Liz Belcher,the greenway coordinator, whose multiple skills make it all happen.   Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Bridge Repair  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  30.0  6   5/23/2009  Mike Urbanski organized GRCCL volunteers to repair the Murray Run bridge built long ago by Jason Nanz as an Eagle project. In one of those rains, a huge tree came down, hit another, which hit another. The City cut big trees enough to get them off the bridge. Crew replaced posts and rails, reinforced joists, practiced splice techniques, cleared logs out of creek. Materials and generator from Pathfinders; expertise from the GRCCL engineers; power to organize from Mike. Great job on getting this done so quickly.   Official 
Murray Run Greenway - Construction  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  65.0  32   10/24/2009  Mike Urbanski coordinated with Vic Tuck and Woodrow Wilson band to finish staining the Fishburn Bridge. Materials and tools supplied by Pathfinders.  Official 
Roanoke River Greenway Landscaping  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  16.1  8   6/18/2009  Finish landscaping on section of Roanoke River Greenway between Franklin Rd. and I-581.  Official 
Roanoke River Greenway Landscaping  Roanoke Greenways - ROA_City_P&R  239.0  68   6/6/2009  Landscaping on section of Roanoke River Greenway between Franklin Rd. and I-581.  Official 
Location Summary for Roanoke Greenways:   Total Project-Days = 35      Volunteer Hours = 1,940.6     Staff Hours = 86.3     Total Hours = 2,026.9
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County  6.0  3   6/12/2009  Planted 46 liriope around maple at trailhead and mulched. Finished with this CIIF grant!  Official 
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County   6.5  3   5/31/2009  We finished the pavers at the bench, doing all those angled cuts. We had the County's brick saw and generator; Jeff's saw horses. Tons of people in the park and on the greenway.  Official 
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County   37.0  6   4/4/2009  Installed bench and pavers near the Novozymes bridge. Site overlooks the polo field. Used Witch to dig the pad, load the stone. Compactor to pack the base. Still need to cut some pavers for the edges. Started off cool but sunny and warm at the end. Mike brought much needed lunch.  Official 
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County   31.5  7   2/26/2009  Continue Paving project  Official 
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County   85.5  11   2/25/2009  Continued the work started by the MWC several weeks earlier. This consisted in filling in the three excavated areas with pavers set on a bed of compacted crusher run, and filling the cracks with sand, securing the outer edges with plastic liners. In view of impending bad weather, came back the next morning to finish the job.See photos.  Official 
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County   75.0  10   1/21/2009  Installation of pavers at the arbor begun. Freezing weather. Ground frozen.  Official 
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County   40.9  13   12/11/2008  Public service day North Cross School - 10 students (names on record at the greenway office) arrived at 9.15AM in the school's bus, under the supervision of Mr. Robert Cooper. The task was to plant 91 rhododendron plants which had been donated by Dr. Gary Glontz. These were beautiful plants, 12" to 24" in height, in 10" pots, which Dr Glontz had raised from slips at his Smith Mountain propeerty.Dr Glontz supervised the plantings, and gave a short lecture, illustrated with specimens, on the science of slip propogation. Despite a cold drizzling rain the work went well and was completed in just over three hours. Plants were placed along the greenway at locations chosen by county staff.  Official 
Green Hill Park Trailhead and Amenities  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County  51.0  11   4/20/2008  Install pavers under the kiosk at Green Hill Park  Official 
Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve (DCR)  Roanoke River Greenway - Roanoke County   67.5  9   6/16/2010  Installed steps and most of the 200 yards of spur trail to the overlook. One remaining set of steps on the main trail still needs work. Expect to finish up here next week.The is a trail of steps - 159 to be exact!  Official 
Location Summary for Roanoke River Greenway:   Total Project-Days = 9      Volunteer Hours = 380.4     Staff Hours = 20.5     Total Hours = 400.9
Craig Recreation Center  Town of Vinton  49.5  11   8/4/2011  Public Service Day for North Cross School. Eight students and one teacher participated. The trail had not received maintenance for three years. The tread is in excellent condition, but there was a considerable amount of summer overgrowth, other debris and trash and several small blow-downs to be taken care of. The group worked hard and was done by 12.30.  Official 
Craig Recreation Center  Town of Vinton  80.0  10   9/24/2008  The trail on the far side of the stream was completed today, starting some distance from the proposed crossing, until boundaries can be confirmed. Many thanks to Mary Lou Lewis for bringing out a wonderful picnic lunch for us today!  Official 
Craig Recreation Center  Town of Vinton  65.0  8   9/17/2008  Trail brought up to the proposed site of the stream crossing. As the exact location of boundaries is uncertain, we will not start on the bridge at this time.  Official 
Craig Recreation Center  Town of Vinton  48.0  6   9/10/2008  Trail work continues - passing through a cluster of quite large trees,interesting boulders,and a chance for a nice over-look.  Official 
Craig Recreation Center  Town of Vinton  64.0  8   8/20/2008  New trail constructed - 350 ft.  Official 
Craig Recreation Center  Town of Vinton  68.5  9   8/13/2008  300ft. new trail constructed.  Official 
Craig Recreation Center  Town of Vinton  50.0  6   8/6/2008  Began work today on a loop trail starting in the woods across the ditch from the parking lot. About 200ft. of trail completed, keeping in proximety to the woodland edge so that glimpses of the large storm water basin may be enjoyed.  Official 
Gladetown Trail  Town of Vinton  90.5  11   5/16/2012  ADDENDUM: After heavy rains the upper segment of the trail- from the trail head to the bridge - becomes slippery and muddy. Today the Public Works dept. for the Town brought out three dump truck loads of mulch from the trash transport station and we mulched the entire trail with the exception of about 25 yds. approaching the upper side of the bridge which we will treat in the next couple of days. Summer growth was also cut back.   Official 
Gladetown Trail  Town of Vinton  140.5  20   4/11/2012  FINISHED TODAY. A 32 ft. bog bridge was constructed across a slough some 30 yards north of the bridge, using donated used RR ties as sleepers,and most of the remaining 2 by 12's for planks. A nice wooden seat was made and placed at a point overlooking the wet land. The trail was completed. Signs, grouted and stained, were placed at each trail head.Took out all the remaining wood and scraps.  Official 
Gladetown Trail  Town of Vinton  33.3  7   3/16/2012  Gladetown Bridge - finished bridge; did stone approach  Official 
Gladetown Trail  Town of Vinton  100.0  16   3/14/2012  Gladetown Bridge - tightened bolts and washers; set posts; installed deck; installed ramp; trail to bridge.  Official 
Gladetown Trail  Town of Vinton  54.5  8   3/8/2012  As a follow-up on yesterday's build a small team came back to secure the beams and set the stabilizing blocks between the beams.  Official 
Gladetown Trail  Town of Vinton  158.0  20   3/7/2012  A good START was made on both the bridge work and the trail.The bridge work was staged from a dry area several hundred yards from the site.The bridge foundations were greatly strengthened to prevent sinkage. Four beams,(2 by 12's approx. 25-1/2 feet long)were put together by three laminations with metal plates and each carried in by a team of 12 workers. Heavy! 514 lbs a piece,according to Jim B. Went smoothly thanks to good planning by Liz and Roger - and good carpentery talent in the crew. About 1/2 the final segment of trail was cleared, but needs further finishing work in addition to completion of the remaining half.   Official 
Gladetown Trail  Town of Vinton  38.5  11   10/4/2011  North Cross Public Service Day - Students cleared 1/2 mile of Gladetown Trail in Vinton.  Official 
Wolf Creek Greenway Maintenance  Town of Vinton  35.0  9   3/22/2010  About three truck loads of sand were removed from the greenway culvert under the Rt.24 bridge, using the Canycom and wheelbarrows, restoring the six to seven feet high passage-way.  Official 
Wolf Creek Greenway Maintenance  Town of Vinton  108.0  36   5/23/2009  Public service day. Twenty nine high school and college students from a local People2People group, together with six counselors, applied 2 coats of protective stain to the pedestrian bridge located on the greenway just south of Rt.24. Coordination of the project, pressure washing of the bridge, and materials, were supplied by the Town of Vinton, with support from Pathfinders.   Official 
Location Summary for Town of Vinton:   Total Project-Days = 16      Volunteer Hours = 1,116.0     Staff Hours = 67.3     Total Hours = 1,183.3
Report Summary:   Total Project-Days = 388      Volunteer Hours = 22,153.9     Staff Hours = 487.3     Total Hours = 22,641.1

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