Thank you to the twelve volunteers who came out to do trail work on their Labor Day holiday weekend. The task for the day was vegetation cutback on the Appalachian Trail from the Rip Rap parking lot in southern Shenandoah National Park. The section was recently adopted by Linda Beights and Lisa Swales, so trail maintenance leader, Marit Anderson, had set up the event to help them out. The group met at 8:30 am for the briefing, tool and helmet hand-out, and walked 1.5 miles to begin the work. Snack break with cookies was midway through the morning. At noon we finished up and hiked back to the parking lot finishing up around 1 pm. Much gratitude to the eager volunteers including Tad Hardee, Noelle Daly, Josh Heath, Kathy Thornton, Michael Seth, Brenda Stephens, Mike Hammer, Barbara Martin, and Erwina Maria Winiger (who found us on Meet Up and stopped by to assist us while on her South America/North America travel van tour😊). Labor Day, which to many means the end of summer, is a holiday that really celebrates the social and economic achievements of American workers. This group did some good work on the AT today!
