Sign up for your Volunteer Vacation
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You can now sign up for Volunteer Vacations, Youth Vacations and Backcountry Response Team trips (BCRT).
- Volunteers from the 2009 Volunteer Vacation on the Upper Dungeness Trail enjoy some R and R after a good day's work. Photo by Pauline Cantor.
If you're new to WTA, these are extended trail maintenance work parties - Volunteer and Youth Vacations last a week; BCRTs run from three to five days. Because of their duration, these trips usually dip deeper into the backcountry and/or stray farther from population centers than our one-day trips do.
This year we have 42 public week-long trips scheduled for this summer - 28 adult vacations and 14 youth vacations. We also have scheduled 27 BCRTs.
That's a lot of much-needed trail maintenance!
WTA's Trail Maintenance Director Diane Bedell has provided an excellent account of the impact that these vacations have on trails and for hikers. Last year, trail volunteers tackled numerous important projects on 35 trails, including:
- Constructing a new 45 foot bridge over Ipsut Creek, a place where two hikers tragically lost their lives in 2007
- Clearing more than 400 trees along the Boundary Trail in the Pasaytan;
- Youth shoring up a precarious spot north of Deception Pass on the PCT.
Along with some great work, these trips are lots of fun. That's why people come back year after year. And that's why you need to sign up today! Popular trips fill very quickly.
How quickly? A few predictions from WTA's Trail Maintenance staff:
- First Volunteer Vacation to fill? They predict Cape Disappointment, Moore Point and Holden Village.
- First Youth Vacation to fill? Predictions are Hart Lake and Cape Disappointment.
- First BCRT to fill? South Coast Wilderness.
- Date and Time of the 100th registrant? 10:59am on Monday the 8th.
- Number of registrants on the first day? 141.
Check back to see how these predictions pan out. And sign up for your vacation today!
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