Little Mountain Park - Up Only — Friday, Dec. 15, 2023

This was a VERY interesting WTA trail maintenance project! The 10-second video below shows how the zipline part of the project was working. If you haven’t volunteered for one of these WTA trail crews, you’re missing out!  

The lovely Little Mountain Park, just a few miles from Mount Vernon, has a lot of trails for hikers and bikers. Some trails are one-way, so that's why this trail is named "Up-Only". Our trail project required tons of rocks and gravel. Our borrow-pit "mine" was high up the hill, so we worked on a zipline to transport buckets of rocks down to the work site. The hardworkin' crew on top was mining rocks, gravel, and mineral soil, sending down the full buckets, and hauling the empties back up. The crew on the bottom carried the full buckets to the worksite. It really was an ingenious setup. Tough work, but our teams quickly settled into an efficient routine. Bonus: It was a surprisingly beautiful day ... in mid-December!