American Hiking Society’s Volunteer Vacations

If you like to daypack, backpack and volunteer for a good cause in the great outdoors, the 2008 American Hiking Society’s (AHS) Volunteer Vacations may be for you.

On these trail stewardship programs across America’s public lands, you’ll join anywhere from 4-16 volunteers to rebuild eroded trails, perform ecological restoration, “log out” fallen trees and perform other general trail maintenance duties. that year, AHS is offering 75 trips across 25 states. Trips cost a mere $275 and include food, but you will have to cover transportation to the starting line. Trips are rated from easy to very strenuous depending on length of backpacking or daypacking due to reach base camp. Accommodations range from cabins, bunkhouses and car camping to primitive camping.

As a past

National Sierra Clubs Outing leader (backpacking and canoe trips), I can attest to the calories you’ll burn and the muscle you’ll build on outdoor work trips. You’ll additionally be surrounded by a fascinating group of society willing to give their instance to public lands enjoyed by all. I adore Sierra Club participants, we always had a lot of laughs, terrific campfire conversations and relative age didn’t matter. I suspect AHS attracts a similar brood.

I’m closely looking at AHS’s Flathead National Forest trail maintenance trip in Montana that July. Here’s a complete list of their 2008 trail stewardship projects. The AHS website additionally has a FAQs section which is fairly helpful to reply initial questions.

Original post by Bev Sklar