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A couple of colleagues received awards last night in Concord. Congratulations to Craig Sanborn: (Cardigan Highlanders Volunteer Trail Crew). He has worked on trails almost as long as I have.:) Chris Garby: ( U.S. Forest Service Volunteer). Also a member of Trailwrights. Congratulations both...

Anyone hiking from the carriage road: "Notice The Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED) will be doing an airlift on Tuesday Aug.11th to refill the Propane tanks on the summit of Mt. Belknap. The Carriage road gate will be closed to vehicle traffic for the duration of...

Found a pair of gloves near the gate of the Carriage road in Gilford. Any one lose them. If so just PM me.

“WARNING NOTICE” To all hikers that use the Parking area off Wood Road to access the E. Gilford Trail or Round Pond. The parking lot is NOT plowed in Winter. You must park below the T at the jct. of Wood and Bickford Roads. You also must turn around at the T ( NOT in the driveway of the...

I am not sure where this should be posted so I am trying Here: To all hikers that hike the E. Gilford trail area of the Belknap Range. I have received a couple of e mails from two Land owners that lead to the parking area of Wood Road in Gilford. Excerpts from two emails are below: Hello Hal...

The debut of the New Weldon Bosworth Map and Web site was presented last Monday night at the Belknap Range Trail Tenders (BRATTS) Annual Meeting. A lot of hard work went into this Web Site that includes all the latest trail descriptions,relocations, name changes and blazing colors on the map...

Just an FYI The paint blazing has been changed from WHITE to ORANGE as of last sat. (13th), to eliminate the conflict with the white blazed Ridge trail.

A turn out of 9 Trailwrights and 1 friend of Trailwrights made for a nice work day getting some badly needed erosion and trail Improvements completed. As usual there is plenty more to do as you all know. A never ending effort. The hike up to about 2/3 of the way seemed to me to be the hardest...

Mt. Pemigewasset Trail – June 22, 2013 Trailwrights will be assisting the adopter of the Mt. Pemigewasset Trail and are putting the call out for those interested in helping. For those new to the craft, this is a great opportunity to learn some of the methods of trail maintenance...

9 hearty Trailwrights met to do some needed rock work on the Rollins trail in Rollins State Park. We tackled two areas of concern. Both needed rock steps and some smoothing of the treadway. In both locations 6 single rock steps and 3 double rock steps were installed for a total of 18. Not a bad...

Sat. May 18th. Join Trailwrights for a day Rolling rocks and maybe playing in Mud. There are two rock work projects that need steps and rebuilding.If enough help there is a side trail ditch that needs cleaning. Meet at the Entrance Gate at Rollins State Park at 8:30. Bring Lunch,gloves...

April 27 eleven Trailwrights and friends met at Artist's Bluff to continue rebuilding the trail. We started the project in the 90's with Shock Incarceration Unit of the State Prison. The prisoners carried up large granite blocks while the Trailwrights placed steps. More steps were added at...

Sorry for this report being so late I was awaiting pictures as I forgot my camera. Hopefully Jason can supply them for me. We accomplished a lot of good trail hardening on a stretch of the Dan Doan trail a short distance up from the Mousley Brook crossing. We installed two trail side ditches to...

After a scare of not having the tool trailor and tools to work with ( Bob came down sick during the night and we just missed his call notifying us he could not make it). We were in a fix but Dave B.came through and rounded up enough tools for us to at least get our basic TLC. We sure do thank...

Artist Bluff fall clean up is scheduled for Sat.Oct 27th. It is time for getting our adopted trail ready for the spring and to continue a project we started last time out but ran out of time. All waterbars and drainage to be cleaned. Rock steps to be installed over a ledge and should be...

Looking for help with improvements this saturday to support the adopter of this trail. Projects depends on how much help we can recruit. Anyone interested in helping can let me know so we can plan on the tools needed. Sorry for such a late post but I have been away the last 3.5 weeks and decided...

A few of us Trailwrights are looking for some help on the Mt. Pemi. trail helping the adopter. Projects/Locations will be decided by how much help we get. There is much to do from one end to the other. We will meet at the Flume viitors center Parkway Exit 34A. Bring lunch gloves etc. Tools...

In keeping with the Trailwrights tradition of having a project to celebrate on this years NH Trails Day we met at the Mt. Kinsman trailhead to help out one of our own Trailwrights on his adopted US Forest Service trail along with two hard working representatives of the Forest Service. Jen...

Seven hearty workers hit the trail to make some needed improvements. We decided to start at the farthest project for the day and work back. The first project was to decide what to do with this section of Boggy wet quagmire and corduroy. We decided to move the treadway to higher and drier...

Did you ever want to do all the things your mother told you NOT to do,like playing in mud, stomping and playing in water,cut things with saws and play with rocks. Well here is your chance to Join Trailwrights doing just those things. Lets do a tribute to Dan Doan and help out restoring this...