Volunteers are needed for construction of another new section of the Fairfax Cross County Trail on Saturday October 15 at 9:30AM .The new section near Great Falls will eliminate two stream crossings and put the trail on public easements. The Fairfax County Park Authority has just rebuilt the parking lot and the first several hundred yards of new trail between Georgetown Pike and Difficult Run, and volunteers will now continue the trail south. We'll work as far as the bridge over Old Dominion on this trip.
Projects will include some light widening of the existing trail, heavy clearing for a new route and potentially constructing a tributary crossing -- something for everybody. This project is a great way for mountain bikers to build bridges with other user groups since volunteers will include hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers from Fairfax Trails and Streams, Great Falls Trailblazers and MORE.
Bring water, gloves and sturdy shoes. The MORE tool chest will be there but you are welcome to bring your favorite loppers, saws or other tools. We could probably also use wheelbarrows for hauling rock to the tributary crossing.
Directions: From the Beltway, go west on Georgetown Pike (Rte 193). Continue over the Difficult Run bridge. After couple more curves look for the gravel parking lot on the left. From the entrance to Great Falls Park (the intersection of Old Dominion Drive and Georgetown Pike), go east on Georgetown Pike down the hill and around a curve. Look for the gravel parking lot on the right.
For more information, contact, Randy Kerr, MORE CCT liaison,
lerrkerr@aol.com, cell (703) 926-6779.
To learn more about the CCT, which will run from the Occaquan near Route 123 to the Potomac at Great Falls, visit
http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/parks/cctinfo.htm.
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