The first day they took us to a mountain called pond flats. They had the new section of trail broken up into ten sections for crews to do. Since we got there first they assigned us sections 1 and 2. Those sections happened to be at the top of the mountain. So we all grabbed two tools and walked 2 and a half to 3 miles to the top of the mountain to start working. We spent the rest of the day digging new trail. It was really hard work but we had a good time. Our sections were suppose to be the easiest so they gave the group of six of us two sections and they didn't give us a rock bar cause they said there were no rocks to dig out. Turns out they were wrong... a few inches under the duff it was nothing but rocks. Austin and gravity had fun seeing who could dig the rocks out the best. We said they were having a "man off." We did really good for what we had but we didn't finish our sections.
The second day we were going to go work on Rowan mountain however it was going to be below freeze, and there was more work to be done on pond flats so we went back and finished what we started. Since we were there to finish the trail we all got to paint a white blaze, which was so exciting.
Both nights we stayed at the hostel owned by bob peoples (who is the man in charge of hardcore). They fed us both night which was amazing. The second night was way better because it was an all you can eat spaghetti dinner. Another perk about doing hardcore was they made sure everyone had a ride back to were they stoled on the trail. So Wednesday morning he piled into the back of a covered pickup and we made it back to the trail by noon.
We were beat from two days of hard manual labor, and were sore in places that weren't used to getting worked out with hiking. But it was worth it. :)
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