THE COHOS TREKKER

President's Message

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Welcome to the Cohos Trail Trekker. We are rapidly approaching mud season and the melting of all this snow. Sorry snowmobilers and skiers, but we are ready for the hiking season

There is going to be a great deal of trail work done in the north country this coming spring and summer and we will be looking for volunteers to help us. Donations to help cover the costs would also be greatly appreciated.. I urged you on the website to donate early so we wouldn't have to unleash Kim! Well, here he is!!

Just a reminder that it's time to renew your memberships! Also, there are new items added to the Trail Store.

Please thank Lainie Castine for all the work she does on the trail and behind the scenes.

Hope to see you on the trail !

Pete Castine
President
The Cohos Trail Association

THE COHOS TREKKER - by K. R. Nilsen

THE BIG COHOS TRAIL BAILOUT, 2009

If you haven't squirreled all your money away in gold bullion as a hedge against the Great Recession, then you could invest from $5.00 to a cool $1 million in the famous and fabulous Cohos Trail. Now that's a better idea than a Wall Street bailout, wouldn't you agree?

Seriously, The Cohos Trail Association is launching its 2009 fund drive and we have more than a few needs that you may be able to help us address. Select what you'd like to support with your dollars. Here are a dozen ideas:

• Material for tent platforms for several different sites along the Cohos Trail, and for several 60-foot segments of bog bridging (3-inch rough sawn hemlock boards)

• Materials for a new composting latrine for the Panorama lean-to and a composting latrine for the proposed Sugarloaf Arm camp site in the Nash Stream Forest

• A new office computer and printer for the association. (Donate one or both?)

• Microsoft Office program for the computer

• Trail crews opening up the ten miles of pathway for the new Prospect Mt. Trail and the Covill Mountain Trail. These treks will take the hiker from Bear Ledge Campground on Mt Prospect to the vicinity of Big Brook Bog (over two mountains with terrific views and by three wild backcountry ponds).

• GPSing, flagging, and other preliminary work on the proposed three-mile Falls In The River Trail from Big Brook bridge to Second Connecticut Lake dam

• Trail crews working on the new one-mile Dead Water Trail

A second-annual Cohos Trail Association Blowout at Sportsman's Lodge on Big Diamond Pond in Stewartstown (live music, dead food, and above-average men and women)

• Restoring the terrific views at Baldhead lean-to and Panorama lean-to

• Rerouting portions of several trails, including the Sanguinary Summit Trail and the Ben Young Hill Trail

• Support 1,300-name database input into several computers so we have backup and better capability to get well-formatted newsletters and other material out to you

• A tow-cart to move our newly donated brush mower from job to job
(Donate one?)

Despite the recession, The Cohos Trail Association is making real headway in its efforts to raise money for on-the-ground work. We received three grants last year and have a new one coming this year. We would like to match funds, and you can help us do that. Your support should allow us to complete more trail miles and trail structures than at any time in the last five years.

So, before the world economy goes completely south, why not put your last precious dollars to good use somewhere along the 855,360 feet of the Cohos Trail. None of it will be spent on big Havana cigars, private-reserve cognac, solid-gold Cadillacs, or congressional junkets to warm tropical islands.

Send your gift to the association at the following address:

The Cohos Trail Association
266 Danforth Road
Pittsburg, NH 03592

or donate Here.

Thanks a trillion, (You hear that number a lot lately, don't you?)

Kim

Kim Robert Nilsen, board chair
The Cohos Trail Association

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