#mountainstoseatrail — Public Fediverse posts

First Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea-Trail workday of 2026 was a massive success! The morning was was right at freezing when we arrived, but we warmed up quickly...

We moved a big pile of trash a mile out of the woods, up to the road, for the state to pick up. Including a bunch of nasty tires that had been previously pulled out of the river... I carried one that was too busted to roll straight (and probably weighed literally a third of my bodyweight!) and then we got smart and put most of the rest onto the wheelbarrows. 💪🏻🧠

Not pictured - @mbroome & I also spent a pleasant half-hour pulling invasive Chinese privet along the riverside. Got to play with the [weed wrench](https://www.weed-wrench.com/), which is the "no, really, fuck you" solution for plants that are too big to pull by hand, but too small to be worth cut-and-dabbing.

Note to self: maybe next time don't bother getting up early to squeeze in the usual morning cardio workout. 😁 We hiked ~6 miles just doing the cleanup!

#outdoors #volunteering #TrailMaintenance #MountainsToSeaTrail #TrashCleanup

First Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea-Trail workday of 2026 was a massive success! The morning was was right at freezing when we arrived, but we warmed up quickly...

We moved a big pile of trash a mile out of the woods, up to the road, for the state to pick up. Including a bunch of nasty tires that had been previously pulled out of the river... I carried one that was too busted to roll straight (and probably weighed literally a third of my bodyweight!) and then we got smart and put most of the rest onto the wheelbarrows. 💪🏻🧠

Not pictured - @mbroome & I also spent a pleasant half-hour pulling invasive Chinese privet along the riverside. Got to play with the [weed wrench](https://www.weed-wrench.com/), which is the "no, really, fuck you" solution for plants that are too big to pull by hand, but too small to be worth cut-and-dabbing.

Note to self: maybe next time don't bother getting up early to squeeze in the usual morning cardio workout. 😁 We hiked ~6 miles just doing the cleanup!

#outdoors #volunteering #TrailMaintenance #MountainsToSeaTrail #TrashCleanup

This morning we made our first farmers' market run in a month! I packed up my Monuts for a bag lunch and headed over to the Friends of the #MountainsToSeaTrail Eno River trail workday and spent the morning helping move rocks and gravel and build erosion control for a reroute of the trail.
After a quick shower, @mbroome & I headed over to the #EnoRiverAssociation members meeting at the Confluence Natural Area - need to go back and hike those trails! - and then I took a detour to the #Festifall North Carolina Day on the way home... (You may start to notice a pattern here. 😇)

Sunshine, great people, conservation, and craft festivals - being retired has turned out a lot different from my vague pre-pandemic anticipation, and also I am loving it! 💖

This morning we made our first farmers' market run in a month! I packed up my Monuts for a bag lunch and headed over to the Friends of the #MountainsToSeaTrail Eno River trail workday and spent the morning helping move rocks and gravel and build erosion control for a reroute of the trail.
After a quick shower, @mbroome & I headed over to the #EnoRiverAssociation members meeting at the Confluence Natural Area - need to go back and hike those trails! - and then I took a detour to the #Festifall North Carolina Day on the way home... (You may start to notice a pattern here. 😇)

Sunshine, great people, conservation, and craft festivals - being retired has turned out a lot different from my vague pre-pandemic anticipation, and also I am loving it! 💖