All,
As mentioned at the Meet and Greet, thanks to Darin for reminding me, and also posted under the Uwharrie 2012 sticky thread, this weekend 25FEB2012 is a Uwharrie work weekend.
It is VERY important that we maintain a high profile with these work weekends, as we sponsor Wolf's Den and part of our agreement for the signage is putting in a certain amount of work hours on the trail system.
This is also much more important due to the closures in other NFS and NPS access to offroad vehicles in Tellico and OBX. The forest service in Uwharrie is actually pushing for opening more trails due to grants set aside in the gas tax.
If you've never worked a work weekend at Uwharrie before it can range from putting up guard rails, trail signage, filling low areas with rock, and just general cleaning. There's work for all ages and abilities, and we usually tackle tasks as a group. Best thing is, if it's a nice weekend, they usually put up free campsites at Arrowhead.
So, this post is getting wordy but I agree with Darin's conversation he had with me at the Meet and Greet. It's our trail system, if we don't maintain it someone else will, and we won't like the outcome....
As mentioned at the Meet and Greet, thanks to Darin for reminding me, and also posted under the Uwharrie 2012 sticky thread, this weekend 25FEB2012 is a Uwharrie work weekend.
It is VERY important that we maintain a high profile with these work weekends, as we sponsor Wolf's Den and part of our agreement for the signage is putting in a certain amount of work hours on the trail system.
This is also much more important due to the closures in other NFS and NPS access to offroad vehicles in Tellico and OBX. The forest service in Uwharrie is actually pushing for opening more trails due to grants set aside in the gas tax.
If you've never worked a work weekend at Uwharrie before it can range from putting up guard rails, trail signage, filling low areas with rock, and just general cleaning. There's work for all ages and abilities, and we usually tackle tasks as a group. Best thing is, if it's a nice weekend, they usually put up free campsites at Arrowhead.
So, this post is getting wordy but I agree with Darin's conversation he had with me at the Meet and Greet. It's our trail system, if we don't maintain it someone else will, and we won't like the outcome....
