In 2010 American Hiking Society volunteers worked on 53 different trail projects (Volunteer Vacations) dedicating 16,840 hours of volunteer labor, resulting in $351,114 of estimated value in sweat equity given to the U. S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and various trail organizations. Over 440 miles of trail were built, maintained, or re-vegetated with the hardworking hands of AHS volunteers.
I worked on two AHS projects in 2010, one in Utah building this bridge...
...and another in Arkansas, working on the Buffalo River Trail with this group...
If you are curious what a project is like, watch this 4 minute video...
...and if this looks like Volunteer Vacations are something that might interest you, go to www.americanhiking.org and check out the projects available in 2011.
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