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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On Saturday (9/14) we'll resume work on Bonnie & Clyde's. This is after taking August off. From below, on a lower trail section, it looks like a rockery, almost looking like a flower bed.
As you can now see (from up top), it's a trail -- not a flowerbed.
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This sign on Bonnie & Clyde's is incorrect, it's no longer rough. We hope to see a lot of you Saturday. We got the moisture we needed -- let's go to work!
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Thanks to everyone who came out this past Saturday. The weather was perfect and the mosquitoes even stayed away. We didn't have a featured group, but a large number of our regular volunteers and a few new people joined us. There were a couple people who earned the prestigious MVTB t-shirt as well. This is given to any volunteer with at least 10 hours of trail building volunteer work with MVTB.
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Ken improves the tread.
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Here's an amazing wall on Bonnie & Clyde's.
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Feel free to join us for our next session Saturday July 27th as we continue working our way up Bonnie & Clyde's.
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MVPF would like to thank Windermere Real Estate Skagit Valley for their help at our June 22 volunteer session. We put them to work on our current trail, Bonnie & Clyde's, and were very happy with the effort they put in.
Hard work puts smiles on our volunteers' faces.
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Trail building is a great family friendly activity. Here Art and Emma tackle a root in the trail.
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We have a new volunteer, Zachary Klein, who is 9 years old. The whole family attended our last session. His father, David, and brother, Nathan, who is 14, earned their shirts last session. We're betting the rest of the family, Jill, Emily (age 12), and Zachary, will be doing the same.
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Thanks to everyone who came out and we hope to see you again at our next trailbuilding session this Saturday the 13th.
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The first load of rock on Bonnie & Clyde's. A special thanks to the Parks Department, the power carrier now works perfectly. This was also the first trip on new rubber tracks.
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The corner/rock wall where most of our material went last session, on June 8th.
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Material (the dirt) was being moved to the corner from two directions. The rock (hauled from below), the mineral soil (brown in color) being brought down from above using our disc brake equipped wheelbarrows.
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Lynn Postler standing adjacent to the wall helps provide a perspective as to its size.
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Saying "Our Girls Rock" would be an understatement; from left to right you see: Maggie Sullivan, Lynn Postler, Wendy LaRocque and Diane Kaplan. They collectively played a key role in building one of our best rock walls to date. Hopefully they'll be in attendance this coming session. We had an amazingly productive session!
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Here Art Tuftee sees how the corner flows. It's well after the session ended, kind of a wind-down ritual. It was Art that stated, "This is one of our best walls yet."
Final statement: On Saturday June 22nd Windermere Real Estate will be our featured group, we hope to have a great turnout.
