Re: [at-l] Konnarock Trail Crew

["The Weathercarrot" <weathercarrot2@hotmail.com>]

Hi - you wrote:

>Does the crew travel out to the "job site" each day from Mt Rogers? 
>Can you give me more detail on how they actually schedule their day. 

"Crew weeks" on Konnarock (and Mid-Atlantic) are a five day period that 
run from Thursday to Monday. People usually show up sometime on 
Wednesday, get acquainted with base camp, eat a huge group dinner, and 
finally a meeting with the crew leader about what is going on that week, 
including a lot of focus on safety issues. Next morning, there's an 
early breakfast, the tools are loaded into the vans, and everyone packs 
five days worth of their personal gear (not including food, which is 
packed seperate). Then by 8am the vans drive off to their own projects, 
not to return until Monday afternoon. The project is anywhere from 15 
minutes to 7 hours away, and that normally means camping there for four 
nights, usually as close to the van as possible so you don't have to 
backpack everything in for miles (unlike Rocky Top or the VLTP). 
Sometimes the project is too far from an access point for it be feasible 
to hike back and forth every day, but only a few times a season. Any 
time the project is less than 30 or so minutes from the Mount Rogers 
base camp, we tend to just stay there and commute everyday. This is 
always the case each year for week one, and often the last week as well.

For those staying multiple crew weeks, tuesday and wednesday is your day 
off. Sometimes, one of the crews will stay away for two weeks straight 
and have their days off there, because the long drive eats away to much 
time from the work (I'm specifically talking about the Nantahalas and 
Georgia, or even a remote locale in the Smokies, like last summer).

Hope that helps. Take care,

wc

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