For about 8 years, we've been making use of an old floating (mostly) dock from an expired inholding adjacent to the Upper Goose Pond Cabin. Former dock at winter low water level The old do...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2018/05/new-dock-at-upper-goose-pond-cabin-may.html
Stopping by Shelter on a Snowy Morning (with apologies to Mr. Frost) Whose woods these are I think I know. For travelers hiking through ...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2018/04/an-adopters-lament.html
APRIL 2018 Why are these men standing around in the woods on a snowy afternoon? Adam Brown (right) enters data on a tree at Tom Leonard shelter We'll need to go back to March 2015, w...
JUNE 10 AND 13, 2017 This lengthy bridge spans an old beaver meadow, now just a stream surrounded by an occasionally wet field. Last year, one of the old telephone poles serving as stringers...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2017/06/repairs-to-cooper-brook-bridge.html
You just know that the hiking season is upon us when the cabin is open, so welcome to another hiking season! Yesterday our crew of 8 (later joined by Joanne for a total of 9) headed up the h...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2017/05/upper-goose-pond-cabin-opening-day.html
About time for a new post I'd say, overtime. Will try to be better at this in 2017. In any event our 2017 Project season is well underway with trail clearing and natural heritage projects alr...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2017/05/about-time-for-new-post-id-say-overtime.html
Just when you think this will be the year we don't have to patch up the Hubbard Brook Boardwalk the maintainer reports that once again there's trouble down by the brook. As you can see in the p...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2016/06/hubbard-brook-boardwalk-repairs.html
SHAYS' REBELLION MONUMENT THE SHAYS’ MONUMENT WAS INCREASINGLY LISTING TO THE SOUTH AND MANY AT AND LOCAL FOLKS WERE INTERESTED TO SEE IT PROPERLY STRAIGHT WITH A GOOD FOUNDATION. TH...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2016/05/shays-rebellion-monument-restoration.html
Well, it's been awhile, but winter's over (what we had of it) and spring is in full bloom! Time to get back to some fun in the woods on the Mass sections of the AT. If you've been to Upper Go...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2016/05/upper-goose-pond-cabin-gets-new-porch.html
It took a while, but it's finally done (almost) In May this year, we started a project to replace the aging roof on Upper Goose Pond Cabin (UGPC). Somewhat naively, we figured it would take m...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-new-roof-for-upper-goose-pond-cabin.html
6/28/15--HOW DO YOU MOVE A KIOSK? You get a really big tractor. Joshua Moran, a North Adams resident who is organizing the North Adams application to ATC's AT Community program organized a s...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2015/06/north-adams-kiosk-relocation.html
JUNE 27, 2015 DPW ON THE AT Jim, Pete, Dave and Cosmo (with a lot of help from Trail neighbor Jim Morawiec and his tractor) replaced the broken culvert on the UGPC caretaker access road ye...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2015/06/new-culvert-for-ugpc-access.html
MAY 19, 2015 We made a return visit to the boardwalk near Shays' Rebellion monument today. It seems that our last "fix" to the problem of diminishing support was not quite satisfactory. Al...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2015/05/shays-boardwalk-again.html
SPRING IS COMING--REALLY
We've put together another great project list for this upcoming
season. You can find it here
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2015/03/ready-for-real-trail-magic.html
September 13, 2014 In preparation for a 2015 replacement of the roof of Upper Goose Pond Cabin, metal roofing was floated into the Cabin via canoe from our trail neighbors, Leisure Lee. J...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/11/upper-goose-pond-cabin-preparing-for.html
October 13, 2014 On a pleasant October day, 15 attendees of ALDHA's 33rd annual Gathering and two volunteers from the Mass AT Committee put their boots to the ground and picked up tools in thei...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/11/2014-aldha-gathering-workparty.html
POST REPLACEMENT, SOUTH WILCOX SHELTER AUGUST 19, 2014 Finally, an up-to-date post (both the blog and the shelter)... On yet another cool August morning, Pete and Cosmo (along with much appre...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/08/carpentry-at-south-wilcox.html
SIDE HILL AND CRIBBING IN CHESHIRE MA JUNE 10, 2014 Still working through the backlog of 2014 projects. In June we set about correcting some treadway issues on the Trail between Rt 8 and the ...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/08/good-old-fashioned-trail-work.html
July 19, 2014 A team of 3 volunteers and 1 ATC staff brought new hiker information to the summit of Mt Everett. Cosmo at Pete admire the finished product But first a little recent histor...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-sign-for-mt-everett.html
In 2010, we made some improvements at Wilbur Clearing Shelter and Campsite. We installed more tent platforms and tent pads and rebuild the area in front of the shelter to provide a more stable...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/06/wilbur-shelter-fire-ring-june-21-2014.html
Apologies, readers. There's been a bit of a gap in these posts--it's been a busy spring off-Trail, it's taken a while to catch up. The bridge crossing the inlet stream to Upper Goose Pond is...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/06/bridge-at-upper-goose-pond-inlet-june.html
TREE WORK AT UPPER GOOSE POND CABIN APRIL 14, 2014 They say there's nothing that AT Volunteers can't accomplish--while I have seen the truth of statement, maybe there are still some things w...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-work-at-upper-goose-pond-cabin.html
Well it's been (still is) a long winter. Sitting here the day before the official arrival of Spring watching the sleet come down. We have just posted our project schedule for the season, and ...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2014/03/hey-were-back.html
Shutters ready for installation We were able to re-open the cabin for a few days after the National Park Service resumed normal operations after the shutdown of the Federal government ended ...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2013/10/shutters-ready-for-installation-we-were.html
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013 They say whenever you get two or more AT volunteers together, the talk inevitably turns to S**t. Managing human waste is an important part of what we do as trail managers...
https://massatprojects.blogspot.com/2013/09/another-day-another-privy.html