This is for everyone who with a desire to learn trail construction/maintenance techniques with Walt Cook, one of the most knowledgable trail builders alive today.
This is to annouce an August 27th (saturday), 2005, trail work day in Athens, GA. It will be on a new loop trail of the beautiful riparian Cook's Trail that is an integral natural-path component of the urban-to-rural Athens Greenway Trails System. Meet the man who has inspired and hand-built a large part of this impressive accomplishment. He is also widely noted for his long career as a Forestry professor at UGA and a major force in the building of the recently dedicated Benton Mackaye Trail.
If you are interested in coming to meet us between 8:45-9AM on Saturday 8/27 at Sandy Creek Nature Center to help complete a brand new trail and learn techniques under the guidance of Dr. Cook, please resond in this thread or email me.
I will post directions shortly. You might want to review a similar thread to this I posted recently for a past work day for general info.
Knowing how many will come helps us plan and know how many tools to bring! Thanks for volunteering! It's always a lot of fun.
Building trail is like working a Zen garden that comes alive.