Wrapping it up at Hawken

For the last three days of project Sarah and I are working on the trails at Hawken, mostly by walking them and consciously kicking sticks and debris off the surface, lining less clear sections with sticks, and clipping away andy branches that have grown into the trail. I've always found it kind of sad that most of the student body doesn't know that we have a lot of woods to walk in, and doesn't use the trails. However, cross country and track are using them increasingly frequently, and I've seen a lot more people running out there lately that seem to be there willingly, favoring a run in the woods over one on the track. Trails made for running have to be a lot wider and smoother than those that people are just walking on, and one of the things that we've been doing is clearing the new green trail that runs against a cliff of branches so that on tomorrow's service day the students working on that trail can focus on cutting into the soil and making it wider instead of just making it passable. We're also taking note of down trees that need to be removed from the trail using a chainsaw, and areas that we think the service people should focus on re-routing or improving using shovels.