This post was written by Lorne Currier, GMC Outreach & Field Coordinator. After months of planning and a wild three weeks of work, the Outdoor Orientation Service Trip season has come to a close! Starting on August 21st and ending on September 9th, the Green Mountain Club led 16 volunteer service projects, providing 150 participants […]
Wilderness Stewardship on the Long Trail
This article was written by Lorne Currier, GMC Outreach & Field Coordinator. The Long Trail is lovingly described as a footpath in the wilderness but, technically speaking, just 45 miles of the trail are Wilderness. The difference between wilderness and Wilderness, with a capital ‘W,’ came along on September 3, 1964, when the 88th Congress of […]
Introducing Keegan Tierney, Director of Field Programs
We are happy to announce that Keegan Tierney has joined the Green Mountain Club as our Director of Field Programs! Keegan’s life-long love for trails began in his youth hiking Mt. Abraham here in his home state of Vermont. After getting hooked on trail work on the Cumberland Trail in Tennessee, his first project on […]
Two Decades of Group Outreach on the Long Trail
This post was written by Lorne Currier, GMC’s VHCB AmeriCorps Outreach and Field Coordinator, and previously appeared in the Spring 2018 Long Trail News. Green Mountain Club Caretaker Pete Ketcham manned his post outside the visitor center at the top of the Mount Mansfield Toll Road in 1997. His group feedback forms provided striking insight […]
GMC Camps Program Wraps Up Successful First Season of Managing Bolton Valley Cabins
The Green Mountain Club has wrapped up its first full winter season of managing Bolton Lodge and Bryant Camp for public rental, a long-realized goal since both cabins were brought under public ownership in 2013 as part of a 1,161-acre conservation effort lead by Friends of Bolton Nordic & Backcountry and the Vermont Land Trust. […]
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