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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–…

Sam “Bananas” Norton 2018 – 2020                                                                                                   …

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…