Digging and Sawing on the LGT
Today volunteers carried crosscut saws and hoes for miles to clear fallen trees and restore eroded trailbed along the Linville Gorge Trail.
Today volunteers carried crosscut saws and hoes for miles to clear fallen trees and restore eroded trailbed along the Linville Gorge Trail.
Today a team of volunteers hiked down the Conley Cove Trail to remove fallen trees from a badly eroded portion of the trail. While they were there, they carried out one, lonesome, tire. (Photos: Kevin Massey) … Continued
Whew, what a day! After a year of preparation, volunteers removed 130 tires from Linville Gorge for good!
Linville Gorge community volunteers worked together yesterday to finally rid the wilderness of four 350-lb tires that hooligans threw off the Wiseman’s View overlook into the forest hundreds of feet below.
Continuing the project started last week, volunteers moved the four giant tires below Wiseman’s View up the boulder field to the cliff base.
Today volunteers started rounding up the four gigantic tires that hooligans pitched off the Wiseman’s View overlook a few years ago. Weighing over 300-lbs each, these front loader tires are no joke to carry across the boulder field below the … Continued
Today a team from Catawba Valley Community Collage (CVCC) helped veteran trail volunteer Jonathan Massey cut “cookies” from a fallen tree to be used in a wildlife study later this year.
Today volunteers of all ages moved trash (including 30 tires!) from the floodplain near Daffodil Flats down to the Blue Hole tire cache.
Following up on their success from the January 17 Clean-up, volunteers returned today to continue work at the Linville Falls Plunge Basin. One more trip and this area will be clean!