Basic Trail Care Skill-Building – Royal River Land Trust Trail

Join us for a hands-on trail care experience led by a knowledgeable AMC volunteer trail crew leader. In this session, you’ll gain essential skills in trail maintenance, including understanding trail corridor dimensions, tree and shrub pruning techniques, and proper trail blaze sizing and placement.

We’ll be actively using tools such as loppers, saws, rakes, and paint for blazing trails, as well as addressing the removal of invasive species. All participants are required to register in advance.

Choose from four available sessions on Sunday, April 28:

• Skill Building training – 8:00 to 3:00 pm here
• Skill Building training – 8:00 to 10:00 am here
• Skill Building training – 10:30 to 12:30 pm here
• Skill Building training – 1:00 to 3:00 pm here

This year’s Skill Building event will take place at Pisgah Hill Preserve (South) in New Gloucester. Our focus will a section being rerouted of the 1.2-mile loop trail where it intersects with a drainage channel. We’ll be re-blazing the trail with paint instead of markers and addressing invasive glossy buckthorn and shrubby honeysuckle.

For your safety and comfort, please bring safety glasses, gloves, suitable work clothes, a hat, and insect repellent for ticks and mosquitoes. Kindly arrive 10 minutes early to ensure a prompt start.

You must feel healthy enough to hike on uneven surfaces, hike up a hill, and perform basic trail maintenance.