Wintry Ventures

This winter, we are working on re-designing our trail maps and signs for the Mt. Lake trail system.  This past November, we re-blazed all of our trails with colors that will coordinate with the new maps.  Chris Long, former employee of Mountain Lake and Virginia Tech Forestry student, has taken several cartography classes and volunteered to tackle the map project. 

We are working with the "Midweek Trail Crew" to reconstruct all of our trail signs.  We are hoping to get them in the ground this Spring - a total of 57 signs!!  Some of our current signs even have incorrect mileage such as the Indian Trail.  Today we measured the Indian Trail to be 1.4 miles rather than the stated 1.75 miles around the lake.  The hike was quite treacherous but it was great to get out of the office with our handy distance measuring wheel in tow.

The lake is currently frozen and we caught some spectacular views as we navigated the perimeter of the basin.