Maine Trail Crew Committee Seeks Volunteers
The Maine Trail Crew Committee has been working steadily and regularly to make plans for the coming season. This will be a transition year, as we move to a permanent base camp at the Maine Trail Center, in Skowhegan. We are in the process of moving gear and tools from Lake George Regional Park and various other locations to the club’s long-dreamed of permanent base camp. We watch the developments each week, and imagine a center of operations where staff and volunteers have access to a meeting center, kitchen, living quarters, showers and laundry facilities and storage for tools and gear all in one central location. As we make this transition, there will be opportunities for club volunteers to help with moving gear and equipment to the Trail Center. Details will be forthcoming in the spring.
As we are in transition mode, for most of the 2025 season, the Trail Crew will operate with paid staff, while we “work out the kinks” of the base camp situation. The Trail Crew Committee would also like to start to transition / return to a paid leaders and volunteer crew, both for the experience of the Trail Crew Committee and the Trail Crew. We are inviting volunteers to work with the crew for the last project of the season, a project to establish trail hardening in a section from the West Branch of the Piscataquis River to Marble Brook. (This will be mostly stepping stones and drainage measures.) The project is scheduled for July 21 to August 8. A final project that will welcome volunteers is scheduled for August 11 to 22, with details still in development.
Contact MATC Club Coordinator, Holly Sheehan (coordinator@matc.org) if you are interested in volunteering your time with the Trail Crew.
