Help Work on the Nature Trail

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Photo by Terry Afdem We continue our work on the Nature Trail. Like our last trail building weekend we work Friday (5/11), starting at 9:00 am – and Saturday (5/12), starting at 10:00 am. Since we’ve heard that weekends do not work for many of you we added Fridays. We hope that more of you will make it out, we have a great deal to accomplish before our August 31st deadline.

To find our new trail head stay on Little Mountain Road driving east beyond the park entrance. You will see the gravel piles just past the beaver pond on the right side of the road. Please park safely, making certain you are outside of the painted fog line. And carpool if possible, parking is limited.

Our featured business this weekend is Starbucks Coffee, we hope their promotion bring some new volunteers out. Last session we set a material moving record of 25 cubic yards. Our Co-op volunteers were a pleasure to work with, and they brought out an amazing lunch – thank you. We sincerely hope we see them again. Our top group this year is still North Cascade Family Physicians. Their record of 9 volunteers putting in 33.75 hours in one session stands. And even more impressive, many members of their group are still involved – further running their teams YTD numbers up.

Hopefully we’ll see you Friday or Saturday, and some of you for both.

Working on the Nature Trail

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We are still having work sessions on the second and fourth Fridays and Saturdays of the month. This Friday a handful of trailbuilders turned out to help us continue the Nature Trail.

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On Saturday we had an even larger turn out. We have The Skagit Valley Food Co-Op to thank for an excellent lunch.

We also got to show off our brand new Mount Vernon Trail Builders canopy.

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Skagit Valley Food Co-Op Helps Out

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We're pleased to have the Skagit Valley Food Co-Op as our featured group this Friday and Saturday. We will be continuing work on our new nature trail which will connect Little Mountain Rd to the rest of the trail system in Little Mountain Park. Friday's session starts at 9:00am. On Saturday we'll have fresh pastries from the Mount Vernon Haggen and hot coffee from Starbucks at 10:00 at the trailhead. The Co-Op is providing lunch.

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To get to the trail head, travel east on the Little Mountain Road past the entrance to Little Mountain Park, past the beaver pond. You will see piles of rock about 500' past the beaver pond which is where the trail head is located. Park alongside the road so that you are off the fog line.

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Photos courtesy of Terry Afdem.

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