A busy group of volunteers showed up this morning to help clean up Pine Park trails. This involved removing fallen branches and logs from the trail, and raking way any bark. Smaller branches were put into piles along the trail, for later chipping by Dartmouth College. The goal was to leave a nice wide walkway.
The work areas were on the Girl Brook Circuit Trail along the Connecticut River, as shown in the map. The worst area was at the junction of all the trails at work area #2. Volunteers worked from 10 am until noon.
The end results were fantastic: a clean wide trail. As students ran through, they thanked us for the improvements.
Thanks very much to all who helped. Thanks also to the project sponsors: Pine Park Association, Hanover Conservancy, Dartmouth College, and the Town of Hanover.
Raking bark from the trail. This is what the trail looked like at the start. 
Pulling branches from the trail 
Piling branches for later chipping 
This is the trail junction work area 
Many piles of wood here 
A sled came in handy for dragging debris 
This is the end result 
Nice clean trail 
Much improved trail 
A much improved junction area 
Work crew at area #2 
Work crew at area #1
The Pine Park Association thanks these volunteers for their help:
- Ron Bailey
- Martha Beattie
- Jim Beattie
- Bill Brown
- Bob Bruce
- John Carey
- Sandy Chivers
- Laura Conkey
- Meg Coulton
- Courtney Dragiff
- Jim Eakin
- Linda Fowler
- Steve Fowler
- Barry Harwick
- Nancy Horton
- Don Kollisch
- Bill Mlacak
- Anna Mlodzik
- Grace Mlodzik
- Peter Mlodzik
- Teddy Mlodzik
- Dick Nordgren
- Edith Phyfe
- Spiros Rassias-Markwood
- Helene Rassias-Miles
- Marjery Rogalski
- Ron Shaiko
- Kathryn Stearns
- Jim Wooster
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