I spent the day sewing trail patches on my straw cowboy hat. And I repaired a tear in one of my pair of jeans and put a replacement button on another. Right now, the weather report for tomorrow (Monday 04/20/2020) is showing 5 hours of favorable skies for geo photo cataloging the Road Fork Section, Points 26 - 25 (07/2011 BTA map) round trip. It's not as far as I'd like to go, but I can't just stop in the middle of a segment. They have to be photographed whole. But Wednesday is looking like I'll get another 5 hours, but on the Whipple Section? Points 03-W to 05 (10/2010 BTA map) have priority there. I need to see it anyways because I have yet to give it an unofficial, but special segment name.
The purpose of the catalog right now is volunteer procurement. As far as getting new trail adopters, group activities are suspended until further notice. We can get new trail adopters (our primary volunteer maintenance crew), but can't give them the necessary in-person indoctrination until COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed. To sum it up, we can still get them on the record, but not working yet. Anyways, we need those photos for an Adventurer's Project volunteer procurement/ trail promotion campaign that should be had sometime after the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted to a more favorable point.
I didn't jump on the bandwagon and advocate the use of the trail in our region because I thought it would precipitate a public health problem. When cataloged Whipple 06 - 05, it was it's usual, tranquil self out there. The nearest person was 150 yards away from me and they were across a river on a dirt bike.
Our photos for Road Fork 27 - 29 are done and that accounts for the popular Archer's Fork Loop concurrency where I think people are going to be? I've got a good lead on an adopter for Whipple 01 - 02.
New adopters or not, I want to upgrade all of Whipple's off-road blazes myself. It's just to get them up to the Maintenance Guide's recommended standards.
We have permission to move as many North Country Trail NFS tack on markers as needed to our road intersections. They're needed at the intersections because they're shapes and color are what's on NFS's maps. If they see the shapes at the intersections, then Buckeye's blazes can take over from there.
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