FOP Run in the Park 5K/10K Trail Race/Walk
Mark your calendar, Saturday, May 27th. That's the day the Friends of Pisgah will hold the third annual Run In The Park 5k/10k trail race/walk. Be there and give those feet of yours a good workout. Registration will begin at the Horseshoe trailhead parking lot in Chesterfield at 8:30 a.m. The races will begin at 10 a.m. Help support the Friends of Pisgah's all-volunteer effort to build and maintain bridges, upgrade more than 50 miles of trails, improve access roads, and create new signage and blazing in the park. The registration fee is $25 per adult, $10 for youth 16 years and under. All proceeds go "on the ground" to make Pisgah State Park the best that it can be. So, get off the couch and mark that calendar.
The poster and race form are attached below.
Annual Meeting - November 15th, 2016
Click here to view photos by Matt Donachie
Members In Attendance: Laura Susmann, Jack Kondos, Matt Edson, Jim Schofield, Kim Nilsen, John Herrick, Beth Phippard, Matt Donachie, Abrahm Howe, John Hudachek, Jack Kondos, John Summers, Jon Knickerbocker
President Matt Edson called tonight’s meeting to order at 7:03 pm
Postponed: Help FOP put up new Signs on North Ponds, Chestnut Hill and Parker Trails
Due to ice and water on the trails and cold temperatures this Saturday,
the sign work has been postponed for a week until Saturday, January 21st
10:00 am, at the Horseshoe trailhead. Hope to see you then.
For our January trail maintenance we will meet at the Horseshoe trailhead in Chesterfield at 10:00 am to put up as many new signs on the North Ponds, Chestnut Hill and Parker trails that we have time for.
Bring water, lunch and hammer to nail in new signs or use ours. Also a small crow bar might help to remove the old wood signs. We also have to carry out the old wood signs, so backpacks or similar would be useful.
We will help transport people to these interior trails if the conditions are good.
John Herrick
Friends of Pisgah Trail Chief
603-256-6301
Chestnut Hill Parking Lot Expansion and the Old Chesterfield Road Culvert Replacement Completed
Work on the Chestnut Hill Parking Lot expansion and the Old Chesterfield Road culvert replacement was completed on November 21st. On the same day (an a week ahead of schedule) the final clean-up of the log yard for the timber harvest east of Horseshoe Road completed. Go to the State
Parks website at:
https://www.nhstateparks.org/
Inge Seaboyer
Forester III
NH Division of Forests & Lands
Forest Management Bureau
Caroline A. Fox Research & Demonstration Forest
603.464.3453
Ingeborg.seaboyer@dred.nh.gov
foxforest@dred.nh.gov
Keene Connector Trail Closed
The Keene Connector Trail from Old Swanzey Road in Chesterfield to the west end of the Horatio Colony Preserve in Swanzey is closed due to a logging operation. It will be re-opened by the summer of 2017. Signs have been placed to this effect at the Colony Preserve in Keene, at the lower end of Old Swanzey Road, at Beals, at Kilburn, at Plain Road, and at Madame Sherri's. This sign is at Old Swanzey Road.
Pisgah Trail
"The Pisgah Trail", which is the name for the Wantastiquet-Mondanock Trail section through Pisgah, and uses sections of the Davis Hill, Baker Pond, Reservoir, North Ponds, Old Chesterfield Road, Nash, Fullum Pond and Beals Trails, has been signed from Kilburn to Beals. Thanks to Rob Konig of Keene for his work on this. The signs were purchased by the Chesterfield Conservation Commission.
Bear Mountain Trail Update
The Bear Mountain Trail route (across from Kilburn) has been flagged and can be followed out to the view site and beyond toward Brattleboro. The recent logging operation greatly obscured the trail at the east end but I have been reassured by Richard Hood, landowner, that he continues his support for the trail and for the FOP. A permanent trail route will be re-signed in 2017.
Fall 2016 Update Available
The Fall 2016 edition of Update the Friends of Pisgah newsletter has been posted. Click the Newsletter tab to check it out.
Pisgah Reservoir Trail Bridge Rebuilding
Friends of Pisgah will meet at the Horseshoe Trailhead at 10:00 Saturday, November 5th, to rebuild two bridges on the Reservoir Trail. The bridge materials are already on site and one of the old bridges has already been removed.
Friends of Pisgah October Trail Maintenance Canceled
Due to the messy, wet conditions with numerous trees down in the Park the Saturday, October 29th bridge building has been canceled by Pisgah Park Manager Whip Newell for this month.
