Bark Mulch Packers
Bark Packers backpack 40-50 lb. bags of bark mulch into backcountry shelters over rugged terrain for use at composting privy sites.  This is an excellent opportunity to prepare for backpacking trips and scheduling is flexible to meet your needs.

GMC Summit Caretakers are stationed on Camels Hump and Mount Mansfield during the hiking season to educate visitors on how to minimize their impacts.  The summits of these mountains are especially sensitive because they are above treeline and support many species of rare and endangered alpine plants.  Training is provided by qualified GMC staff and volunteers. Contact Mari (info above) for more details.

GMC Site Caretakers are stationed at Stratton Pond during the hiking season to educate visitors on how to minimize their impacts to he fragile pond shoreline.  Hiker outreach is low-key, utilizing a one-to-one informal educational approach.  Site Caretakers also perform basic trail and site maintenance.  Training is provided by qualified GMC staff and volunteers.  Contact Mari (info above) for more details.

 

GMC Volunteer Ridgerunners backpack from shelter to shelter along the Coolidge Range over rugged terrain.  The ridgerunner performs basic trail maintenance, acts as a communication link in the event of an emergency, and educates hikers on how to minimize their impacts.  Training is provided by qualified GMC staff and volunteers.  Contact Mari (info above) for more details.

 

Section Work Outings
Check our Calendar of Events for work hikes organized and led by your local GMC section.  A great way to meet other GMC volunteers!

 

Adopt a Trail or Shelter
Help enhance the hiking experience for everyone by becoming a Long Trail adopter.  We can help you get started on basic maintenance of a trail or shelter.  Whether you want to volunteer on your own, with your family, or with your outing group, maintaining the Long Trail is a great way to give a little back to the Green Mountains.  For a current listing of available trails and shelters, contact Mari Zagarins (info above).

 

Land Protection & Stewardship Monitors
The GMC Stewardship Program needs your help to monitor over 30,000 acres of Long Trail and Appalachian Trail conservation lands in Vermont.  Volunteer Corridor Monitors regularly walk protected lands to ensure that conservation restrictions are being upheld and the trail is vigilantly defended.  Monitors wander off the beaten path into the woods of Vermont to help maintain boundaries, gather natural history information, map property features, and keep an eye out for illegal encroachments and violations.  For more information on available Long Trail and Appalachian Trail parcels to monitor contact Pete Antos-Ketcham email: pantosketcham@greenmountainclub.org.  Phone: (802) 244-7037 x17.

 

Sign Routers
Volunteers are needed to produce GMC signs as needed or requested.  Individuals must be willing to follow the criteria for materials, design, and construction and demonstrate the ability to rout letters to GMC standards.  Volunteers willing to work on their own with their own tools and materials are encouraged. 

 

 

Help hikers get to trailheads.  With limited public transportation in Vermont, long-distance hikers often need a hand to get to trailheads.  Add your name to a list of contacts willing to pick up and drop off hikers.  You may charge for gas.  Contact Jen Donley, email: jdonley@greenmountainclub.org.

 

 

Internet Marketing Guru
GMC is seeking one or more volunteers to help establish a larger presence on the Internet.  Activities may include setting up and operating online bulletin boards and managing downloadable publications.  If you have previous experience in Internet technologies and would like to help us reach out to more hikers, we'd like to hear from you.

 

Illustrators, Artists, and Photographers
Help keep GMC publications and printed materials looking fresh.  A variety of mediums are accepted.  Mail samples to Susan Shea: sshea@greenmountainclub.org.

 

Long Trail News Writers
If you enjoy writing about the outdoors, about issues facing the hiking community, or like the challenge of writing assignments, become a contributor to the GMC newsletter.  Send writing samples to Susan Shea: sshea@greenmountainclub.org.

 

GMC Web Site Assistants
Experienced editors, writers, and proofreaders are needed to help with the GMC web site; and of course, anyone with web or programming skills!  Contact Jennifer Karson at jkarson@greenmountainclub.org.

 

 

GMC Ambassadors
Volunteers are needed to represent the GMC at various festivals, events, and gatherings throughout the state.  No experience necessary - just a love for the Long Trail and willingness to share information! (Some of our past events include GMC Ski weekends at Mad River Glen & Bromley, community festivals, the VT History Expo, Solarfest, and more!)  Contact Mari for information about specific events.

 

GMC Internships
Looking for Internship Opportunities with GMC?  Check them out here.   

 

 

Thursday Volunteers Help with a wide range of administrative projects at GMC headquarters on Thursdays throughout the year.  Experience not necessary.  For more information, please contact Mari (email and phone listed above).

 

Maintenance Assistants Work with the Facilities Manager on projects in and around the Visitor Center.  Particular assignments will be based on volunteers' interests and skills.  Contact Pete Antos-Ketcham for more information: pantosketcham@greenmountainclub.org.

 

 

 

Summer Hiking Mountain Birdwatch
Adopt a remote mountain peak and gather data on Bicknell's thrush and other mountain songbirds and their habitat.  Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) launched this monitoring program in partnership with GMC in a regional effort to gather data in remote areas, many of which are along the Long Trail.  Bicknell's thrush is one of the most at-risk neotropical migrant songbirds in the world and is the only native endemic songbird in the northeast spruce-fir forests.  Volunteers visit their site once a year in early June.  Training will be provided.  Data will be gathered and used by the conservation groups and land managers to better steward mountain lands.  Go to VINS to register or contact VINS Conservation Biologist Julie Hart, (802) 457-2779 for more details. email: jhart@vinsweb.org.