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Friday, July 4th through Sunday, July
6th, 2008
Project Leaders: Jim Scanlon & Susan Beck 575-524-6723 scanlon.jim@gmail.com
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It’s your patriotic duty to join us this 4th of July weekend as we tackle the Crest Trail (#182) high up in the northern Gila. We’ll be doing mostly moderate to strenuous tread work with some opportunity to work with crosscut saws. We also hope to improve a spur trail to Bead Spring. Our base camp is at Silver Creek Divide, at the Sandy Point trailhead, along the historic Bursum Road which connects highway 180 to the cool alpine forests in the Gila’s Mogollon range. As you ascend the Bursum Road (turnoff between Alma and Glenwood) you gain 4,000 feet in 12 miles and pass through the old mining town of Mogollon. Originally intended to connect the Mogollon mines with Socorro, the the Bursum Road was constructed by convict labor in the early 1900s. This might have been the first NMVFO project! We’ll be supplying dinners Friday and Saturday nights; breakfast on Saturday and Sunday and our Forest Service hosts will provide a cook tent, water, ice and a portable toilet. Please bring chairs, rain gear, your own lunches and snacks, a sense of humor, a willingness to work hard all day and relax in the evenings. A special treat will be information on the Giant Lizard People of the Gila. Since this is a 3-day project we want to encourage people to come for all or part of the project. For more information and to sign up (please do!) contact Jim Scanlon
Last updated on:
August 9, 2008