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During our January 28th session we finished two new hiking trails. The first trail, Bonnie & Clyde’s, leaves from the bottom of Fred’s Trail and heads to the west. It winds around the ridge and connects to the second new trail, Ginny’s Trail, which connects to the parking area at the top of the mountain.Continue reading “Two new trails finished on Little Mountain”

We’re very happy to have Mount Vernon Building Center as our sponsored group for our upcoming work session this Saturday, Jan 28th. Stop in and see our promotional wheelbarrow at the front counter. We have a signup sheet there in case you’d like to join us this Saturday. We are finishing a new trail onContinue reading “Mount Vernon Building Center is our featured group this Saturday”

Here’s a great video put together by MVTB member Brad Kersteins.

Come on out to Little Mountain Park to help Mount Vernon Trail Builders and our friends at Kaptein’s Ace Hardware this Saturday, January 14th. Kaptein’s Ace Hardware is our first featured volunteer group of 2012. We are looking for more groups that would like to become featured volunteer groups. Please contact us if you areContinue reading “Join Kaptein’s Ace Hardware and Mount Vernon Trail Builders for our first trail work session of 2012”

We’ve had an amazing 2011, and we’re going to start our 2012 build season with a bang. Kaptein’s ACE Hardware‘s customers is going to be our first featured group next year. Their session will be our first build session of the year, Saturday January 14th. We feel that having our display in local businesses willContinue reading “Happy New Year”

Art has been an invaluable contributor and trail building mentor to the MVTB. He just celebrated his birthday at Duthie Hill, where he also contributes his extensive trail building knowledge and skills. Happy Birthday, Art!

Come join us for another work party this Saturday. We’ll be enjoying the fall colors and continuing work on our Southern Loop project. We’ll have hot coffee and donuts from the Mount Vernon Haggen and we’ll be meeting at the top of the mountain at 10:00am. You can work for a few hours or joinContinue reading “Join us this Saturday, Nov 12th”

On November 2nd Hannah Levine, a volunteer with and donor to the Mount Vernon Trail Builders, was recognized for her outstanding contribution of $300. Donations are very important to our organization as they help pay for tools and equipment used in our trail building efforts. Parks Directory Larry Otos and Mayor Bud Norris presented HannahContinue reading “Hannah Levine honored at Mount Vernon City Council meeting”

On Saturday Oct 22 we continued working on our new Southern Loop project. This part of the mountain is very rocky which lets us build some nice rock walls and reinforce the trail bed without having to bring in materials from far down the trail. The next day we were back at it working onContinue reading “Weekend of Oct 22/23 was a huge success”