Trail Maintenance, Garenflo Gap, Appalachian Trail

Date	Distance	Time	Elevation Gain	Average Moving Time	Year to Date Miles
6/12/2024	7.3 miles	7 hours 3 minutes	1,843'	1.2 mph	425.1 miles

Parking: 

• Garenflo Gap

Map:

• Gai GPS app

Directions:

• n/a

Off to do weed whacking on our section today. Unfortunately, the gravel road to our trailhead has gotten so bad that we don't feel comfortable driving our car on it. So that adds another 1/2 mile to our day. The USFS said they won't regrade it at this point :(  Next time I see someone from the USFS, I'll beg. Our next car will hopefully be a higher clearance SUV, so that we can get down our road. We actually saw a high clearance SUV parked on the paved road - they didn't drive on the gravel road either.

We both feel weed whacking is our least favorite trail maintenance job. We only finished 0.7 miles last time we were here! Today started slowly - 0.4 miles in the first hour. But things sped up as the day progressed. 7 hours of trail maintenance today, and we finished weed whacking! Phew. Exhausted, but happy to be done. It wasn't too hot today, but it was very humid and very buggy. We saw around a dozen backpackers on the trail.

Ruts in the gravel road

It's a jungle out there.

Lots of galax in bloom