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Photos from our recent Apache Creek Wilderness Trail Building Project

with the Prescott National Forest

June 12-13, 2010

On June 12, AWC's Central Arizona Director Sam Frank led a group of 7 volunteers (and three honorary canine volunteers) into Apache Creek Wilderness, with assistance from Prescott National Forest Wilderness Ranger Tim Craig, to rebuild a trail that provides access to Apache Creek Wilderness.

This 2-day project consisted of improving a crossing at Apache Creek to prevent further erosion along the sensitive riparian corridor, as well as lots of cutting back overgrown brush and repairing the trailhead. 

"It turned out to be another classic AWC volunteer event," says Sam. "Almost stymied by weather--rain, hail, thunder, and lightning--on the first morning, we regrouped at base camp and waited for the weather to break. At midday we headed back out to the trail and began to bring an almost vanished trail back into existence."

The work was arduous and remote, but a significant portion of the trail is now sustainable, well-marked, and ready to offer adventure to the wilderness explorer.

"The enthusiasm of the volunteers and Forest Service staff made the physically demanding work fun to be a part of," Sam says. "A beautiful night under a starry sky and beside a warm campfire gave us all the recuperation we needed to head back out and finish the work on Sunday."

"I wish I could say it was my gourmet dinner and breakfast that gave everyone the gusto to hike the miles, move the rocks, and cut the brush, but in reality I think it's an inherent quality of the volunteers we get on these trips."

For more information about this project and those coming up in the future, contact our Central Arizona Director, Sam Frank, at 928-717-6076.

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Participating on this trip were:

Mike Snodgrass

Larry and Kathy Lopez

Laurie Back

Judie Jackson

Scott Hulbert

Charlie Scully

Tim Craig

Sam Frank...and Tokie