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A number of individuals and non-profit organizations are active in the gorge — maintaining trails, collecting trash, studying flora & fauna, updating trail maps, removing invasive plants, ….  A lot of work goes into keeping this wilderness available.  If you’d like to help, check out the contact information below:

 

General Information, Adopt-a-Trail Program

Kevin Massey, Linville Gorge Volunteer Coordinator for the Forest Service
KevinAndrewMassey@gmail.com

 

Mountains-to-Sea Trail (including Shortoff and Table Rock Gap)

Doug Veazy, Friends of the Mountain-to-Sea Trail
doug.veazey@gmail.com

 

Rock Jock Trail

Mike Jones, The Gorge Rats
mdjones325@gmail.com

 

Latest from the Trail Work Blog

 

Hauling Heavy Rocks on Hawksbill

Every Sunday during the month August, and some week days too, volunteers worked on the Hawksbill Trail. Continuing efforts from earlier this summer, they moved massive rocks to build steps to check the erosion near the summit. The project will continue for many more weeks so if you would like to participate, email Kevin Massey ...


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Sawyers at Spence Ridge

Today volunteers cleared half a dozen trees that had fallen onto the Spence Ridge Trail in the storms earlier this summer!                      


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Two Teams at Table Rock

Today two crews of students from the North Carolina Outward Bound School, accompanied by instructors and Wild South volunteers worked on the Mountains-To-Sea Trail on Table Rock!                   


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Home Repairs

Today a dedicated crew of community volunteers moved literally tons of rock to begin placing stones to build walls and steps to mitigate erosion near the summit of Hawksbill!                                       


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Mitigating a Muddy Mess

Today a work crew worked on the Pine Gap trail to deescalate some of the erosion on that trail! Most of this trail is in a moist cove that gets little sunlight. That, and years of neglect, have caused the trail to erode badly in places, turning parts of the trail into a slippery mudslide. ...


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Midsummer Maintenance

Today a determined team of students and instructors helped Wild South volunteers clear fallen trees and repair eroded trail on the Linville Gorge Trail near Pinch-In. In spite of it being 90+ degrees, the team cleared well over a dozen trees including a pile up that was blocking the trail just north of Pinch-In!                            


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Hawksbill Rock Work (Part 2)

In spite of the heat, volunteers continued moving rocks to the worksite near the summit of Hawksbill Mountain today! (Photos: Kevin Massey)            


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Rockin’ Rock on Hawksbill

Today volunteers started working to repair the bad erosion near the summit of Hawksbill mountain. The team gathered rock and brought it to the worksite to be placed by future crews as walls and steps to alleviate the damage cause by foot traffic and rainwater. (Photos: Kevin Massey)                


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Progress on Pine Gap

Today volunteers cleared eight fallen trees from the rugged and slippery Pine Gap trail!                           


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Sawyers work on the LGT near Bynum Bluff

Today volunteers cleared a tangle of fallen trees on the Linville Gorge Trail near Bynum Bluff. Removing piles of trees like this requires lots of planned and preparation. Cutting any one tree can affect the entire pile. (Photos: Kevin Massey)                      


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