‘Babes’ in the woods
When I arrive at the worksite on the trail up the steep side of Mount Colden, the trail crew women are working next to long, pressure-treated 6-by-6 timbers, the stringers for the ladder they’re building up an open pitch of bedrock.
They have hauled up the heavy lumber in the morning from where the helicopter had dropped it at a flat spot down below. It must have been a grunt of a climb because the trail is steep and located above 3,500 feet. But they laugh about it and show me the scrapes on their shoulders.
It’s all in a day’s work for the Adirondack Mountain Club professional trail crew, but this week is
