A favorite trail maintenance activity is repainting the blazes on the Appalachian Trail. Sunday, August 13 Charlottesville PATC had a crew of eight scheduled to do just that on the section from Turk Gap to Crimora Lake Overlook in Shenandoah National Park. We met at 8 am at the Turk Gap parking lot. Since we had one no-show we divided the group into three teams. Two pairs of two people came from the north end and one team of three came from the south trail head. The groups continued from one end to the other painting the blazes. One person would hold the template and the other would hold the can of paint and paintbrush brushing inside the template. Everyone switched off, so all got turns painting. After two hours we had completed the two mile section. It was a neat and tidy team, no paint spilled!
