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Reunion 2023 Meeting minutes

August 23, 2023

Trail Crew Association​​​​​​ TCA reunion board and members meeting (August) Date: Saturday 8/12 at 1 PM Current Board Members President – Marshall Pontrelli (term ending ‘24)​ Board Member – John Lamanna (‘25) Vice President – Sam Hartwell (’24) ​​​Board Member – Alex Milde (‘24) Treasurer – Peter Jensen (‘25) ​​​​Board Member – Bob Biddle (‘24)…

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Who Is TFC, LLC? A Brief Introduction

February 3, 2022

Annie “Zeta” Dumais [email protected] Since serious conversations began this summer about what it would take to form an independent crew of TFC-folk in the White Mountains, the path forward has been a circuitous one, and it hardly came as a surprise that a handful of unkempt trail workers had a lot to learn about business–…

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Rogue Patrol

January 24, 2022

Sam “Bananas” Norton 2018 – 2020                                                                                                   …

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Hello and some information

January 24, 2022

Marshall Pontrelli President 175 Beacon St. Apt 409, Somerville, MA, 02143 [email protected] (781) 879-0258   Hello All, Happy New Year and I hope your 2021 was a good one! My name is Marshall Pontrelli (woods name Smathers) and I served on crew in two stints, from 2014-2015 and from 2017-2018, and I was the TM…

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Annual Meeting 2021 follow-up

November 21, 2021

Hi All, Attached are the PowerPoints presented in the meeting and the meeting agenda. Included in the powerpoints of relevance are the budget, Shelburne projects, the state of our physical archives, board elections and Acknowledgements to some members who made important contributions this year. Best, Marshall 11/21/2021 Minutes_from_reunion_2020_Secretary Treasurer’s report 2021 Board meeting 2021 slides…

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Annual Meeting 2021

October 31, 2021

Annual Meeting November 13, 2021 Hi All! The TCA Reunion/Annual Meeting will be held the second Saturday in November. The Board Meeting will take place 1:00-3:00pm on Zoom (Zoom info below) with Annual Meeting starting at 4:00, elections starting at 5:00 and happy hour to follow. Schedule 1:00-3:00 Board Meeting (open to all) 3:00-4:00 Break …

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New Iron Mountain trail getting good reviews – Fall Crew 2021

October 31, 2021

The fall season is usually a bit colder and a bit less chaotic than the summer season. This fall season was no exception. AMC’s own White Mountain Professional Trail Crew started by implementing a mile long reroute of the Iron Mountain Trail in Jackson NH. The process was simple in theory – follow the flagged…

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Hazing in retrospect

October 31, 2021

This is the sort of topic you start with a disclaimer, and a sensitive subject for many. I will try to keep things as factual as I can. I worked for the AMC trails department from 2001-2005 (2001- 2002 as a Camp Dodge volunteer crew leader, 2003-2005 on TFC). That was 20 years ago, which…

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Early 2021 Website Update

January 23, 2021

Thanks for visiting the Trail Crew Association website! We’re currently in the process of re-building the website, so keep checking back for updates.

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