[at-l] Re: Trail volunteers

[Cosmo.A.Catalano@williams.edu (cosmo catalano, jr.)]

Alexis--
	Sounds great, do you live near the Berkshires?

Cosmo

At 2:45 PM -0800 1/25/02, Alexis Geiter wrote:
> I would be more than happy to help on a maintenence crew on the 
>weekends, I just need a little help to get started.  I could 
>probably get some friends to help me too.  I wouldn't be able to 
>start until Aug/Sept, but I am willing to help.
>
>Alexis
>
>  "cosmo catalano, jr." <Cosmo.A.Catalano@williams.edu> wrote:
>
>This sounds very familiar! The young people we see working on the
>trial are part of organized crews that we bring in with the
>assistance of the AMC and ATC. They help us write grant requests for
>their own funds (relatively limited) or funding from outside sources.
>"My" AT Committee itself leads work parties every Tuesday and
>Saturday from May to Sept. We typically see about 2-6 people on
>these crews and very few new faces. Volunteer outreach really needs
>to be our top priority. Of course the Committee is mostly guys (like
>myself--though I'm the baby at 48) with limited social skills. What
>we need are some "maintainer babes" to give us some glitz.
>
>The AMC provides their "Volunteer Trail Crew" which offers
>participants a week on the AT or Mt Greylock. Of course the
>participants have to pay $65 to volunteer...this is the AMC after
>all. The advantage to our club is there 
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