INTERESTED IN HISTORICAL REENACTMENTS? Check out the web site for the Shawnee Living History Trail for details and a calendar of events. This site was created and is maintained by a group of reenactors from southern West Virginia dedicated to the preservation of our history and our heritage. |
FOR A LISTING OF HIKES LED BY A KANAWHA VALLEY HIKING GROUP TRY THE KANAWHA TRAIL CLUB. |
BUILDING MARY'S TRAIL As Appalachian Power Company completes the access road to its new landfill near the John Amos Power Plant, the work on the Mary Ingles Trail across power company property will continue in 2008. We explored and flagged much of the route in 2007. Our hope is that the company will approve our flagged route so we can begin clearing brush and painting blazes after the first of the year. We will also continue our efforts in Kanawha State Forest and at the Weiford property, which connects to the APCo trail route. MITB reps met with the WV Div. of Highways and the Boy Scout maintainers of the Kanawha Trace (KT) to discuss the underpass of the KT near Stave Branch. The plan currently is to use an 8-foot diameter culvert with a poured concrete floor. The tunnel will be artificially lighted, and approaches to the underpass will be fenced. The Mary Ingles Trail will likely pass through the underpass on a small portion of trail shared with the KT. We look forward to working with the Tri-State Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and with the WV DOH to ensure that passage under the new highway is safe for trail users. By the way, you can check out an article on the proposed Mary Ingles Trail on the WVDOH Trails website: Much of the material for the article came from our newly developed informational brochure. If you are going to speak on the proposed trail at a meeting, let me know and I can provide you with some of the brochures. Doug Wood, chingwe@peoplepc.com or 755-0440 eves. The MITB will be meeting nearly every first Tuesday of the month at 6pm. The Nov. & Dec. 2007, and the Feb. & March 2008 meetings will be held indoors at the Putnam County library at the Teays exit of I-64. There will be no January 2008 meeting. From April through October 2008, we will be hiking on the first Tuesdays. For many of the hikes, we will meet at the office of Putnam County Commission on Aging at Scary Creek along Rt. 35 near the St. Albans exit of I-64 towards St. Albans. We leave from the parking lot promptly at 6pm, so arrive early. Hiking trips that do not leave from this location will have their ports of departure identified later, by e-mail or phone. If you wish to be notified of hike details, provide your e-mail address to Doug Wood. If phone is best for you, please provide your phone number. Last minute changes are best ascertained by calling 304-755-0440, not by e-mailing. FIRST TUESDAY MEETINGS 6PM: 2008 3/4 - TBA 4/8 - Annual spring cookout at Woodscape. Note: THE SECOND TUESDAY OF APRIL 5/6 - Workhike on APCo property. 6/3 - Workhike on APCo property. 7/1 - Workhike in Kanawha State Forest. 8/5 - Workhike on Weiford property. 9/2 - Workhike on Weiford property. 10/7 - Annual fall cookout at Woodscape. OTHER EVENTS: 2008 1/19 - Tracking and 18th century woods lore at Twin Falls State Park. 2/15-17 - Watoga State Park Allegheny Trail work party. Work will be done on the Allegheny Trail in the Beaver Creek Gorge area and on park trails. A cabin has been made available by the Park. 4/26 - Kanawha State Forest Foundation Osbra Eye Memorial Spring Wildflower Walks. 5/30 - 6/1 - Spring he Road. Slackpacking on Section 1 of the Allegheny Trail. Contact Roger Raikes at 304-366-5331 or wvpakrat@yahoo.com 6/6 - 6/8 - Whistles, Wings, & Wildflowers at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. Contact the park for details. 1-800-CALLWVA. 6/14 - WVSTA annual meeting. 6/14-20 - Wood's Wacky Week of Work and Welaxation on the Allegheny Trail. 8/23 - Allegheny Trail Cooperator's Meeting. 9/13 - Kanawha State Forest Foundation Memorial Margaret Dennison Fall Nature Walks. 9/24-28 - The Legacy of Mary Ingles encampment and living history trail. 10/11-13 - Allegheny Trek. 11/1-2 - WVSTA Wild Foods Weekend. By the way, this year a cousin group of ours (the Mary Ingles Trail Associates) will be holding the 20th annual living history event now known as the Legacy of Mary Ingles. Because this event has done so much for making the Mary Ingles Trail vision known to many people in our area, we thought we would dedicate a couple of our work parties to improving the loop trail used for the living history trail on the Weiford property. It needs a little treadwork here and there. Two bridges were refurbished this year, and the event was a big success. It seems we always have a good time when we work on this small portion of the Mary Ingles Trail. Last year several members helped erect the wikwam now used at the event. We can even meet there sometime if you wish. |
MARY INGLES TRAIL BLAZERS / WEST VIRGINIA SCENIC TRAILS ASSOCIATION CALENDAR OF EVENTS (Other West Virginia outdoor events such as nature hikes, wildflower hikes, day hikes and backpacking trips have been included which are not sponsored by the Trail Blazers but may be of interest to you.) |
BUILDING MARY'S TRAIL As Appalachian Power Company completes the access road to its new landfill near the John Amos Power Plant, the work on the Mary Ingles Trail across power company property will continue in 2008. We explored and flagged much of the route in 2007. Our hope is that the company will approve our flagged route so we can begin clearing brush and painting blazes after the first of the year. We will also continue our efforts in Kanawha State Forest and at the Weiford property, which connects to the APCo trail route. MITB reps met with the WV Div. of Highways and the Boy Scout maintainers of the Kanawha Trace (KT) to discuss the underpass of the KT near Stave Branch. The plan currently is to use an 8-foot diameter culvert with a poured concrete floor. The tunnel will be artificially lighted, and approaches to the underpass will be fenced. The Mary Ingles Trail will likely pass through the underpass on a small portion of trail shared with the KT. We look forward to working with the Tri-State Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and with the WV DOH to ensure that passage under the new highway is safe for trail users. By the way, you can check out an article on the proposed Mary Ingles Trail on the WVDOH Trails website: Much of the material for the article came from our newly developed informational brochure. If you are going to speak on the proposed trail at a meeting, let me know and I can provide you with some of the brochures. Doug Wood, chingwe@peoplepc.com or 755-0440 eves. The MITB will be meeting nearly every first Tuesday of the month at 6pm. The Nov. & Dec. 2007, and the Feb. & March 2008 meetings will be held indoors at the Putnam County library at the Teays exit of I-64. There will be no January 2008 meeting. From April through October 2008, we will be hiking on the first Tuesdays. For many of the hikes, we will meet at the office of Putnam County Commission on Aging at Scary Creek along Rt. 35 near the St. Albans exit of I-64 towards St. Albans. We leave from the parking lot promptly at 6pm, so arrive early. Hiking trips that do not leave from this location will have their ports of departure identified later, by e-mail or phone. If you wish to be notified of hike details, provide your e-mail address to Doug Wood. If phone is best for you, please provide your phone number. Last minute changes are best ascertained by calling 304-755-0440, not by e-mailing. FIRST TUESDAY MEETINGS 6PM: 2008 3/4 - TBA 4/8 - Annual spring cookout at Woodscape. Note: THE SECOND TUESDAY OF APRIL 5/6 - Workhike on APCo property. 6/3 - Workhike on APCo property. 7/1 - Workhike in Kanawha State Forest. 8/5 - Workhike on Weiford property. 9/2 - Workhike on Weiford property. 10/7 - Annual fall cookout at Woodscape. OTHER EVENTS: 2008 1/19 - Tracking and 18th century woods lore at Twin Falls State Park. 2/15-17 - Watoga State Park Allegheny Trail work party. Work will be done on the Allegheny Trail in the Beaver Creek Gorge area and on park trails. A cabin has been made available by the Park. 4/26 - Kanawha State Forest Foundation Osbra Eye Memorial Spring Wildflower Walks. 5/30 - 6/1 - Spring he Road. Slackpacking on Section 1 of the Allegheny Trail. Contact Roger Raikes at 304-366-5331 or wvpakrat@yahoo.com 6/6 - 6/8 - Whistles, Wings, & Wildflowers at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. Contact the park for details. 1-800-CALLWVA. 6/14 - WVSTA annual meeting. 6/14-20 - Wood's Wacky Week of Work and Welaxation on the Allegheny Trail. 8/23 - Allegheny Trail Cooperator's Meeting. 9/13 - Kanawha State Forest Foundation Memorial Margaret Dennison Fall Nature Walks. 9/24-28 - The Legacy of Mary Ingles encampment and living history trail. 10/11-13 - Allegheny Trek. 11/1-2 - WVSTA Wild Foods Weekend. By the way, this year a cousin group of ours (the Mary Ingles Trail Associates) will be holding the 20th annual living history event now known as the Legacy of Mary Ingles. Because this event has done so much for making the Mary Ingles Trail vision known to many people in our area, we thought we would dedicate a couple of our work parties to improving the loop trail used for the living history trail on the Weiford property. It needs a little treadwork here and there. Two bridges were refurbished this year, and the event was a big success. It seems we always have a good time when we work on this small portion of the Mary Ingles Trail. Last year several members helped erect the wikwam now used at the event. We can even meet there sometime if you wish. |
This page was last updated on: February 12, 2008
FOR A LISTING OF HIKES LED BY A KANAWHA VALLEY HIKING GROUP TRY THE KANAWHA TRAIL CLUB. |
INTERESTED IN HISTORICAL REENACTMENTS? Check out the web site for the Shawnee Living History Trail for details and a calendar of events. This site was created and is maintained by a group of reenactors from southern West Virginia dedicated to the preservation of our history and our heritage. |
