BlackSpruce
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Only 10 days ago a helicopter dropped materials on Boundary, not to worry or hope this is not to build a “resort” on the MacIntyre Range.
“A proposal was brought to the Forty-Sixers at their meeting last fall to fund an ADK pro-crew to install bog bridges between Boundary and Iroquois in what can only be described as boot sucking quagmires. Four weeks is the estimated time it will take to complete the project. An anonymous donor provided funding for materials and the DEC successfully delivered the lumber to the project location in late March. The Forty-Sixers agreed to fund the Boundary-Iroquois project which is being done in honor of Dr. Edwin H. Ketchledge who helped found the summit steward program amongst many other accomplishments”
A Dr Ketch dream, and now APA approved of building bog bridges in the cols before and after Boundary is happening thanks to the extraordinary dedication to the Adirondack Mountains and team work of Kris A. Alberga (Supervising Forester, DEC), Wes Lampman (North Country Operations director, ADK), Ranger Jin Giglinto (DEC), Robert Daley (Forester 2, DEC) and Julia Goren (Coordinator of the Summit Stewardship Program, ADK).
Here http://www.adk46er.org/ for more about what the FORTY-SIXERS are able to fund thanks to their generous members.
Other notable ADK projects planned for the 2013 work season:
- A crew will be spending time on the Orebed Trail finishing up the wooden steps that are located on a steep, open bedrock slide. Roughly 100 more steps are needed to complete the project and the material has been delivered by the DEC;
- A crew will be returning to the new Jay Mountain Trail to further define the trail and make some finishing touches;
- A crew will install some new trail in the Split Rock Wild Forest.
Lots of new snow and high snow wave from this past Tuesday storm made me think climbers had been levitating to Iroquois all winter as the path was nowhere to be seen... There was at least 12 t o14 inches of new snow past the Wright intersection and much more along the MacIntyre ridge, likely the best conditions of this winter. Even saw a Bald Eagle playing with the super strong winds above Algonquin summit for several minutes, quite a sight against the perfectly blue sky!
“A proposal was brought to the Forty-Sixers at their meeting last fall to fund an ADK pro-crew to install bog bridges between Boundary and Iroquois in what can only be described as boot sucking quagmires. Four weeks is the estimated time it will take to complete the project. An anonymous donor provided funding for materials and the DEC successfully delivered the lumber to the project location in late March. The Forty-Sixers agreed to fund the Boundary-Iroquois project which is being done in honor of Dr. Edwin H. Ketchledge who helped found the summit steward program amongst many other accomplishments”
A Dr Ketch dream, and now APA approved of building bog bridges in the cols before and after Boundary is happening thanks to the extraordinary dedication to the Adirondack Mountains and team work of Kris A. Alberga (Supervising Forester, DEC), Wes Lampman (North Country Operations director, ADK), Ranger Jin Giglinto (DEC), Robert Daley (Forester 2, DEC) and Julia Goren (Coordinator of the Summit Stewardship Program, ADK).
Here http://www.adk46er.org/ for more about what the FORTY-SIXERS are able to fund thanks to their generous members.
Other notable ADK projects planned for the 2013 work season:
- A crew will be spending time on the Orebed Trail finishing up the wooden steps that are located on a steep, open bedrock slide. Roughly 100 more steps are needed to complete the project and the material has been delivered by the DEC;
- A crew will be returning to the new Jay Mountain Trail to further define the trail and make some finishing touches;
- A crew will install some new trail in the Split Rock Wild Forest.
Lots of new snow and high snow wave from this past Tuesday storm made me think climbers had been levitating to Iroquois all winter as the path was nowhere to be seen... There was at least 12 t o14 inches of new snow past the Wright intersection and much more along the MacIntyre ridge, likely the best conditions of this winter. Even saw a Bald Eagle playing with the super strong winds above Algonquin summit for several minutes, quite a sight against the perfectly blue sky!
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