Are you ready to make a difference at Little Mountain Park? Help us repair the bridges along the La-Z-Boy trail before winter sets in.
Are you ready to make a difference at Little Mountain Park? The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is looking for volunteers to help build a new trail that will connect the restrooms at the main parking lot to the central multi-use trail system.
As I write this blog post for the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, my last as president of this fine organization, I feel the need to recap, reflect and look ahead.
Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is committed to shining a light on our parks, helping to enhance, maintain and grow an already impressive line-up of community parks. Now's your opportunity to support the parks you love by joining us for our 2019 Trail-A-Thon fundraiser. And if you're wondering why support MVPF, here’s just some of what we've accomplished in the past year with the donations and volunteer support our community entrusted to us…
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Art has been an invaluable contributor and trail building mentor to trail builders at Little Mountain. He just celebrated his birthday at Duthie Hill, where he also contributes his extensive trail building knowledge and skills.
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Happy Birthday, Art!
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Come join us for another work party this Saturday. We'll be enjoying the fall colors and continuing work on our Southern Loop project. We'll have hot coffee and donuts from the Mount Vernon Haggen and we'll be meeting at the top of the mountain at 10:00am. You can work for a few hours or join us for the whole day.
On November 2nd Hannah Levine, a volunteer with and donor to the Mount Vernon Trail Builders, was recognized for her outstanding contribution of $300. Donations are very important to our organization as they help pay for tools and equipment used in our trail building efforts. Parks Directory Larry Otos and Mayor Bud Norris presented Hannah with a framed certificate recognizing her community involvement.
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A few trail builders showed up to the council meeting to show our support and appreciation.
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Afterwards we stopped at one of our favorite meeting areas, Big Rock Cafe & Grocery.
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On Saturday Oct 22 we continued working on our new Southern Loop project. This part of the mountain is very rocky which lets us build some nice rock walls and reinforce the trail bed without having to bring in materials from far down the trail.
The next day we were back at it working on Fred's Trail. The section we focused on was a steep part of the hillside without a clearly defined trail tread. The area was suffering from erosion so we decided to build a switchback around a large tree and install a wooden hand rail. We're quite happy with how it turned out.
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At the end of the day a few of us sat on the picnic tables at the top of Little Mountain and enjoyed a beautiful sunset. What a great way to end a weekend of trail building!
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