[pct-l] Trail Improvements

[Campy]

> Doesn't the California Conservation Corps do work on the trail?  IN  
> the
> mid-90s I remember hiking up from the meadows to Evolution Basin and
> running into a party of ten guys or so breaking rocks and making one  
> of
> those "Inca Highways" that makes walking with running shoes less than
> easy or comfortable.  Do they still work up there?
>
> Jeff Olson
> Martin, SD

The CCC definitely has been working on the PCT. A group out of the  
Shasta and I believe one from the Trinity River district, spent a  
summer 3 or 4 years ago working trail south of McCloud Lake in  
notorious Section "O". The PCTA requested volunteer trail crew cooks  
to get scheduled for a week at a time living and cooking meals for the  
CCC crews. Young men, young women, with two adult leaders. I was able  
to observe their lifestyle, which included mealtimes, morning warm-ups  
and stretching, a full work day in brown uniform work clothes and good  
work boots, an afternoon of camp chores and also ball-hitting with a  
bat and a heavily duct-taped rock for a ball, an evening hour of high  
school level coached schoolwork - with assigned homework! The campfire  
relaxation period, and then to bed in 2-3 person tents.  Extremely  
well led, and one adult seemed to have had a teaching background.  
During the week a teacher lady arrived and met with the people who  
were working on their GEDs to give further coaching and assignments. I  
was so impressed. And I hope this program continues unreduced within  
the state's current financial difficulties. If another call for a cook  
and a kitchen comes, I'll definitely do it.

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