This covers the Rescheduled Monthly workday for October 17. It covers the southern end of the Hardage Mill Trail.
On the third attempt we completed the workday (September and last weekend’s October were rained out). We parked at the end of the Pigeon Hill parking lot. We had 7 crew leaders. They were Bill, Donald, Eric, Kerstin, Robert, Tom, and me. We had 8 Hillgrove High School JROTC students, plus 4 adult volunteers from the Atlanta Outdoor Club, 7 if you count Kerstin, Robert, and me. We had 5 Ambassadors, they were Bill, Dhiran, and Laurie. Allen and Ann were under instruction.
I did introductions and the safety brief near Hardage Field and mentioned this workday was part of the Department of Interior’s “Great American Expedition” celebration. We then walked the length of the Noses Creek Trail to the southern end of the Hardage Mill Trail where the tools were staged. Kirsten, Robert, and I took our 12 volunteers and started working clockwise on the Hardage Mill Trail stopping as need to deberm. Bill, Eric, and Tom cleaned the drains at the end of the Noses Creek Trail and Whitlock Road, then moved the remaining tools to the Noses Creek Bridge and started counterclockwise toward us. After we met, I took 7 of the volunteers and debermed to stop between the northern end of the Hardage Mill Trail and Noses Creek that we did not get done when we did the northern end in April. We also removed a blowdown as we worked.
Workday 10-23-26
This covers the Midway Christian School Corporate workday for October 23. We met at the picnic area where I did introductions, reviewed the workplan, and did a safety brief.
We had 4 crew leaders for the workday. The Crew Leaders were Bill, Eric, Pam, and me. I did registration and Pam was prepared to show them where to park. They arrived in a bus. Bill and Eric loaded the gator with tools, water, and a first aid kit. We had 11 students and 2 adult volunteers.
We started at the concrete drainage ditch behind the visitor center. Splitting into 3 groups, Bill and Pam took the first group and cleaned the ditch starting at the trail, I took the second group and middle part, Eric took the third group and the bottom to Kennesaw Mountain Road. After finishing the ditch, we started deberming the Pickett Line Trail leap frogging from spot to spot that needed to be debermed. We stopped a couple of times to take breaks with either Bill or I talked about the history of the mountain and the battle. These were junior high school kids.
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