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The presentation of the annual awards and a slide show on a trek in Nepal highlighted the 2019 Mountain Club of Maryland holiday party, held Dec. 8 in Columbia. The afternoon event featured a social hour fol-lowed by the awards and conclud-ed with the presentation by Nancy Richie and her husband Tom on their October 2018 trip to Nepal and the Everest Base Camp.

The nearly 100 members who attended brought desserts and ap-petizers to share during the social hour and donated 174 pairs of

socks, which filled two large boxes. They also gave $94 to buy more socks or gloves. The socks and gloves will go to two Balti-more charities that serve the home-less, Baltimore Station and Manna House.

The awards and their winners were: the Eleanor Sewell Hall of Fame Award, received by Paul Ives; Unsung Hero or Heroine Award, received by Norm Revis;

the Bob Grossman Outstanding Ser-vice to MCM Award, received by Ann Roberts; and the Outstand-ing Trip Leader Award, received by Carolyn and Bill Bauer. In a subse-quent email, Carolyn Bauer thanked the Club for the award and said her knee tear is improving, and she and Bill “plan to continue being hike leaders for some time.” (For full details on why each person received

his or her award, see related story.)

Gordon preceded his presentation of the awards with re-marks that included a “thank you” to Sharon Sniffen for her work on the Hike Across Mary-

land this year. Also speaking earlier, Debbie Coble offered a briefing on the new online membership system, noting that members will, 15 days before their membership ex-pires, receive an email reminder that they need to renew.

Holiday Party Coordinator Leslie Marcuse thanked President Jay for presiding over the awards ceremony and Larry Freeman and all the other volunteers involved in membership outreach, noting that many new mem-bers joined this year. She also thanked those who helped with set-up and/or clean-up. They include: Beth and Ted Cooper, Patty Smith, Janine Grossman, Bob Ginsberg, Chuck Randall, Joe Wroblewski, Susan Morrissey, Dave Yosnosik, and Norm Engelberg.

Awards and Slide Show Highlight Holiday PartyEd Warner

Jay Gordon

Debbie Coble

Leslie Marcuse

Tom Richie Nancy Richie

Everest Base Camp presentation by Tom and Nancy Richie

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Five awards were presented at the holiday party to rec-ognize the service of outstanding Mountain Club of Mary-land members. The awards and their winners were:

Eleanor Sewell Hall of Fame Award The award was presented to Paul Ives (not pictured),

a member of MCM for 48 years, having joined in 1971. Paul served as Supervisor of Trails for 11 years from 1990 to 2001, working actively to oversee our trail and shelter maintenance, including planning and scheduling many work trips. He also served as MCM President from 1978-1980. He took responsibility for the club telephone from 1982 – 2005, making sure that phone calls were dealt with appropriately. He served as our representative on the Maryland A.T. Management Committee in 1989 and 1990. Paul was our Miles Fund Administrator in 2013 and 2014. Paul also led hikes for the club (in addition to trail and shelter work trips for 20 years). Paul voluntarily worked to maintain and improve the Appalachian Trail for more than 25 years, as evidence by the Silver Service award he received from the National Park Service in 2001.

Outstanding Trip Leader(s) Award The award was presented to Carolyn and Bill Bauer,

who joined the Club in 1993. They lead a wide variety of hikes and are always cheerful, warm and welcoming. They make hiking fun. They formerly led hard hikes, but now lead “Tweener hikes,” and will likely lead Leisure hikes be-

fore they’re finished supporting the club. Over the years, Bill and Carolyn have been an invaluable hike-leading team and their official recognition is long overdue.

Unsung Hero Award The award was presented to Norm Revis (not pictured),

who has been updating the schedules on the Mountain Club website for several years. This position requires up-dating both the Members-Only Schedule and the Public Schedule on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Because of his diligence, the website is the best way for members and nonmembers to find the most up-to-date schedule.

The listserv has made it easy for leaders to change hikes. But every time a leader changes a hike, Norm must update both schedules on the website. Norm is very conscientious and professional with his updates and always double-checks with the hike leader to make sure the updates are correct.

Bob Grossman Outstanding Service Award The award was presented to Ann Roberts, who has

been leading popular weekend hikes at Loch Raven Res-ervoir for many years. She was recognized with the Out-standing Hike Leaders award in 2015 and has willingly stepped into a number of other leader-ship roles. She served as MCM Vice-President, from 2010-2011, 2012-2013, and 2016-2018. She served as a Councilor in 2009, and from 2014-2015. Ann currently serves as MCM’s representative to the Keystone Trails Association in Pennsylvania, and as the alternate representative to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Partnership Committee of A.T. trail clubs.

Club Members Receive Awards at Holiday PartyBob Carson

Ann Roberts

Bill & Carolyn Bauer

Of course, as well as a presentation and awards, there’s always food and fellowship!

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Editor’s Comments

Please note that any news articles, photographs, notices or other material you would like to submit for publication in the next Hiker High Points must be received no later than June 10, 2020.

Send materials to: Newsletter.Editor@mcomd.orgPhotos should be sent in original size, with caption infor-

mation: event, place, date, identity of persons in the photo, photogra-pher’s name, etc.

Thanks in advance!

Sig EckhausOur friend and hiker Sigmund Eckhaus passed

away November 1 at the age of 91 years. “Sig” en-joyed his years in the Mountain Club and lead hikes while in his 80’s. He especially enjoyed leading hikes in the Soldiers Delight Nature Park and Or-egon Ridge Nature Park. His wife Betty was always on his hikes and was often the sweep. They had re-cently moved to North Oaks Retirement Home in Pikesville. Sig will be missed on the trails this year. (Submitted by John Heyn).

The 2020 annual Mountain Club of Maryland pic-nic and elections will be held June 6 in Patapsco Valley State Park’s Pavilion #708. This pavilion in the Pickall area has its own parking and restrooms. The day begins with three optional hikes, then we’ll serve returning hik-ers and picnic attendees a watermelon refresher and ap-petizers, followed by a catered Kloby’s Smokehouse menu that includes vegan items. Lastly, there’ll be a brief busi-ness meeting with elections of new board members.

HIKING –(Hikers will meet in the pavilion parking lot)

Hike One: 9:30 a.m., a 10 to 11 mile hike with a lunch break. (The hike requires advanced registration.)

Hike Two: 12:00 noon, 7 to 8 mile hike with a snack break.

Hike Three: 1:00 p.m., 5 to 6 mile hike at a leisurely pace.

More details of the hikes will be in our hiking schedule at www.mcomd.org.

ENTERTAINMENT begins at 3:30 p.m. with enter-tainment again by the Bittersweets, who sing and play country music. Returning hikers will be served cold-sliced watermelon and snacks.

PICNIC starts with the 4 p.m. delivery of catered food, including vegan dishes, meats, salads, desserts, sodas and water. You may bring beer or wine in your cooler with ice.

BUSINESS MEETING – At 5:30 pm., we’ll have a brief meeting where new board members will be introduced.

Annual Mountain Club Meeting and Picnic Planned

— RESERVATION —Mountain Club Annual Meeting

and Picnic Saturday, June 6

Pickall Area/Pavilion #708RESERVATION DEADlINE: MONDAY, JUNE 1NO CHARGE for members, $15 for guests. Park admission is $2 or free with MD Golden Age Pass.

To register, send an email to MCMpicnic@gmail.com with name(s) , email address and phone number or call Linda Hinton at 410-369-8158

Linda Hinton

In Memory Of…

MCM On the MoveLarry Freeman

At three REI stores (Columbia, Timonium and Bethesda) MCM members had good discussions with many hikers who were interested in joining our club. REI wants us to regularly set up our table and talk with their customers. We have decided we will deploy to the Columbia and Timonium stores quarterly. Expect to see more “volunteers needed” emails from me

The glossy Howard County Magazine January- February 2020 edition published by the Baltimore Sun had an excellent 8 page spread on our club’s winter hikes in Howard County. The article was filled with several beautiful colored pictures of our “mature” members hiking, of course led by Jim Koury.

We have seen a modest increase in new members in January using our new capability of joining online. And I’ve noticed more new members and guests on our hikes.

In response to my latest email I have received some ideas for outreach that I will follow up. Moving for-ward we need our members to take initiatives to seek

out opportunities to promote our club, at local colleg-es, outdoor stores, other groups etc. Be innovative. We are the best hiking club in Maryland. Give others the chance to find out how much fun it is hiking with us!

At left, Dave Lyon briefs attendees at an outreach hike being held at the Howard County Conservancy’s Belmont Estate. Several dozen people, including several Club members, attended the November hike into Patapsco State Park.

Summer is right around the corner and time for our Annual Picnic! At our picnic each year, we elect new Councilors and officers. Currently the ballot has openings for President, Vice-President, and two Councilors. No experience is necessary, our mem-bers are quite helpful. We have filled a number of open positions lately, and it’s great to bring in new talent to do what we need to operate as a club. The above positions are different, in that they can vote

on matters brought before the council. We gener-ally run the club by consensus, so the votes are usu-ally, “all in favor”. I’ll still be on the council as Past-President for a year. One of the best things about being President is becoming a Past-President! As the term is for two years, there are quite a few Past-Presidents around — as a potential candidate you-can ask them about the position. See you on the trail!

Hello MCM Members!Jay Gordon, MCM President

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

OUTREACH

The Mountain Club’s new membership system means that all memberships, both new and renewing, will hence-forth be processed and paid for online. The new system will automatically send members renewal reminders to prevent their membership from lapsing. Renewing one’s annual membership will now take just a minute or two online – no more checks, stamps and envelopes. The sys-tem also allows members to change or update member-

ship details at any time and, in the future, to browse the Club directory.

As part of the change, members must re-register at the Club’s web site, using their email address as their user ID, and selecting a new password. If you experience problems, contact Duncan Glenday at webmaster@mcomd.org or me at membership@mcomd.org.

Club Completes New Membership System Debbie Coble

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2019 was a busy year for the Mountain Club of Mary-land. As Corresponding Secretary, Bob Goran keeps all of the statistics on our hikes. In 2019:

There were 144 weekday hikes and 156 weekend hikes for a total of 300 hikes plus 6 backpacks, 3 canoe trips, and 7 work trips.

2258 hikers and 78 guests went on the weekday hikes for a total of 18,655 miles of trails.

1756 hikers and 173 guests hiked on the weekends for

a total of 15,108 miles of trails. There were more weekend hikes this year than last and more hikers. In 2018 there were 131 hikes with 1338 hikers.

22 four legged dogs also hiked during the year. All of these were led by 67 different hike leaders.18% of our hikes had 20 or more people on them.Many thanks to the hike leaders for getting us out on the

trails in 2019!

MCM Fun Facts for 2019Karen Ohlrich

Mountain Club Monthly Membership Through the 2019 YearDebbie Coble

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A freight train crossing the Potomac River near Harp-ers Ferry, W. Va., derailed in the early morning of Dec. 21, 2019, causing two cars to plummet into the water. Seven cars derailed on the bridge, wiping out a section of the ad-joining footbridge on which the Appalachian Trail crosses the Potomac. No one was on the bridge at the time, and no injuries were reported. However, the footbridge attached to the rail bridge, which carries the Appalachian Trail, sus-tained major damage.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy has published the following advisory on its website:• ThefootbridgeattachedtotheCSXbridgeisindefinitely

closed. • ParkuserswillbeunabletocrossbetweenHarpersFer-

ry and C&O Canal towpath.• ParkuserswillbeunabletocrossfromHarpersFerryto

the Maryland Heights trail.• HikersarenotadvisedtowalkonHighway340tocross

into Maryland, as this roadway has narrow shoulders and heavy traffic.

• A.T. hikers needing transport betweenHarpers Ferryand Weverton Road, Md., should arrange for shuttles. The ATC refers hikers to its web page containing infor-mation about available transportation options, appala-chiantrail.org/transportation. The site provides links to possible shuttle and transport services.The ATC will provide updates at appalachiantrail.org/

updates as more information becomes available.

Derailment Closes Footbridge in Harpers FerryBill Saunders

Harpers Ferry train derailment. Source: www.nbcwashington.com

The Miles Fund was initially funded by a donation of $200,000 from Lester Miles. The fund is invested with Morgan Stanley as our broker. Over the life of the investment, we have earned $222,849, more than doubling the initial investment. And we have awarded grants in the total amount of $167,849. The remaining balance is $255,000 is still well over the initial invest-ment.In 2019, the Miles Fund made the following grants:• $3,000 to the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club to

support the Ridge Runner program

• $400totheFriendsofGwynnsFallsLeakinParkfora boardwalk extension

• $3,000 to the Howard County Conservancy to remedy trail erosion and remove invasives

• $5,000totheFriendsofPatapscoValleyStateParkfor their 2019 Patapsco Trail Work Series

• $5,000 to the Appalachian Trail Museum for an interactive map of the A.T.

• $2,250toCatonsvilleRailstoTrailstobuildabridgeto prevent erosion in high traffic area of Mellor Ave.

2019 Miles Fund GrantsJohn Nethercut

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MILES FUND

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Hike leader Gary Reinoehl, left, prepares for lunch with four of the 12 participants in his Jan. 1 six-mile hike in Columbia’s Owen Brown neighborhood.

Autumn Beauty Abounds on Club Hikes

On Dec. 29, 35 Mountain Club members and guests enjoyed 60-degree temperatures with a 7-mile hike that started in Rockburn Branch Park in Howard County and crossed into the Avalon area of Patapsco Valley State Park. At one point, a section of the Cascade Trail had been decorated for the holidays with ornaments and evergreen boughs—adding a festive moment to the hike.

Marsha Mclaughlin, fourth from left, leader of a September 30 Club hike on the No. 9 Trolley Trail in Ellicott City briefs partici-pants on what’s ahead. Hikers traversed historic Oella and walked alongside the Patapsco River.

Club members on a Oct. 19 hike in Patapsco State Park near the Daniels Area pose for a photo. The hilly hike of five miles or so de-parted from Green Clover Drive and was led by Dave Lyon, at left.

Eight Club members hike Sept. 15 on Peak Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They participated, along with four other Club members, in several days of hiking in the region in mid-September as part of Fall Hiking Week, held annually by the Connecticut AMC chapter. From left are Bill Bauer, Steve Williams, Patty Smith, Patty Williams, Carolyn Bauer, Ann Roberts, Kathy Souders, and Mike Souders.

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On Dec. 18, 2019, I led 24 Mountain Club mem-bers on an 11-mile Wednesday hike that started in the Frederick Municipal Forest and followed a series of trails into the northern section of Gambrill State Park. When we arrived at the trailhead, we found that the previous day’s rain had turned into freez-ing rain in that area. All the trees and bushes were covered with a clear coating of ice. Fortunately, the ice on the trails was crunchy, not slick, so the footing was not treacherous.

All day long, we hiked through a crystal forest. At one point, we hiked on more than a mile of trail

lined by mountain laurels, other bushes, and small trees. All of the shrubbery was bowed down across the trail under the weight of ice, creating barriers of as much as 100 feet thick at a time. Our hikers had to fight through the barriers, with ice falling around us and onto us, as we forced our way through. I was reminded of safari goers fighting their way through a jungle—except that it was an ice-covered jungle.

Everyone agreed that this was one of the most beautiful and unusual hikes we had experienced in a long time!

Ice Hike at Frederick Municipal ForestBill Saunders

An ice-covered bush at Frederick Municipal Forest (photo by Matthias Gabbert)

John Breivogel and Kathy Ruland fight through ice-covered shrubs blocking the trail (photo by Marc Schabb).

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A.T. Shelters Report: Roofing Work at Fry ShelterBill Saunders

In November, Mountain Club volunteers complet-ed a busy season of 2019 maintenance work at the A.T. hiking shelters the Club is responsible for in Pennsyl-vania. A highlight of our work this fall was adding a new layer of shingles to the roofs of the James Fry shelter and its privy. This work was the final phase of a “facelift” of this site, which was built 20 years ago. The earlier phase included staining and painting (de-scribed in the June 2019 issue of HHP).

The recent roofing project encompassed three steps. On Oct. 25, Brian Bare and Chuck Randall accompa-nied me to the site to scrape moss off the two roofs and spray them with a moss and algae cleaner. After allowing two weeks for the cleaner to work, on Nov. 9 a larger crew of workers met to haul to the shelter 17 bundles of shingles (each bundle weighing more than 60 pounds) from a location about three-quarters of a mile from the nearest road. The volunteers included Club members John Barrett, Dennis LeComte, Andy Petras, Chuck Randall, Bill Saunders, Steve Williams

and David Yanosik. We were assisted by six college students from the Outdoor Club of Messiah Col-lege in Mechanicsburg, Penn. After the shingles were all carried in, we also scrubbed the now-dead moss from the roofs.

I had originally planned a work day on Nov. 23 to nail the shingles onto the roofs, but our expert advi-sor for this job (Chuck Randall, who has worked as a

roofer) advised that we should do the work when the temperature was above 50 degrees. Since the forecast was for cooler temperatures through the rest of No-vember, we made a quick decision to do the work on Nov. 11, when the temperature was forecast were for the high 50s. Four Club members participated in this

short notice activity: Dennis LeComte, Chuck Ran-dall, David Yanosik, and myself. Chuck directed the work, and with his expertise and guidance the work went smoothly and quickly. We were able to complete the entire job that day, despite the complication of a two-to-three-hour drive from our residences to the shelter way for most of the volunteers.

With the assistance of many volunteers, the Club has completed a very busy year of 2019 shelters work, which included (in additional to our normal mainte-nance). That work includes:•Staining theoutsidesof the JamesFryshelterand

privy, and painting the inside of the privy;•ReplacingthelidsontheprivytanksattheDarling-

ton shelter and making makeshift repairs necessi-tated by rotting wood on the tanks;

•PumpingaccumulatedliquidoutoftheCoveMoun-tain privy tanks and removing the tops of the vent pipes to improve ventilation; and

•Repairingtheporcupinedamagetothealuminumsheeting around the Cove Mountain privy.

Many thanks to all the volunteers who made these accomplishments possible!

Chuck Randall works near the newly shingled roof, at the rear of the shelter

Dennis LeComte, Chuck Randall and David Yanosik, prepare to begin the roof work

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TR AIL WORK NE WS

Part of the job of the Mountain Club is to main-tain and monitor the Appalachian Trail (A.T.). Parts of the trail are located in a sometimes narrow corri-dor of A.T. land. The job of the monitors is to find the corridor boundary in certain locations, and then

walk it, checking for en-croachments on A.T. property. Some main-tenance on the bound-ary line is done as well. Monitoring involves bushwhacking, some-times through swamps, across fairly big streams, up and down very steep hills, through prickers and dense brush, and across loose rock. To find the route, we use

survey markers, painted boundary lines, tape mea-sures, maps and a quadrant compass. An app is now available that can sometimes make things easier.

MCM monitors a little over 25 miles of A.T. bound-ary, which includes 325 monuments. We monitor from roughly Hunter’s Run, PA, to Duncannon, PA. There is a gap from Boiling Springs, PA, north to a couple miles south of PA850, which is monitored by the Cumberland Valley Trail Club.

The biggest encroachment, by far, was found in April 2013, when Peter Johnson (monitor), Dan McQueen (outgoing Monitor Coordinator), and I (incoming Monitor Coordinator) found an approximately seven acre plot of ATC land under active logging. It was im-mediately reported and stopped, but final resolution lagged in the courts for years. In January 2020, the final hur-dles were cleared and mitigation payments are now being re-ceived. On the same trip, we found a fence that a landowner had built onto A.T. land. Normally this problem is solved by a simple notifica-tion, after which the owner moves the fence. But this particular landowner ignored the request, and became

somewhat threatening to A.T. staff. It wasn’t resolved until the National Park Service sent an armed ranger to explain the rules to the landowner.

We also had an issue with partying and camp-ing which generated litter, fire pits, tree cutting, and neighbor complaints) on A.T. land near White Rocks, close to a road. Several things were tried unsuccess-fully, with the solution finally being “No Parking” signs put up by the township, along with big boulders placed by the A.T. Conservancy, which made access to the site much harder.

Since then, the en-croachments have been relatively minor. Some mountain bikers use the A.T., landowners store things in the corridor, there is a campground in which the tenants wood-piles sometimes migrate onto A.T. Land, and we sometimes find deer stands. These are resolved (some-times slowly) through notification, and if needed, fol-low up by A.T. staff. We had one sad/funny encroach-ment two years ago when a High School student drove his car into a farmer’s field near PA 850 to do dough-nuts. His car got stuck, he had to call the police for help, and then was notified that, because it was A.T. land, what he had done was actually a federal crime.

These are current monitors, and their sections: •Mike O’Connor: Hunter’s Run West •Dick Paaby: Hunter’s Run East •Peter Johnson: Near PA 94 •Vern Graham: Old Sheet Iron Road to Whiskey Springs Road •Ryan Seltzer: Whiskey Springs Road to near Alec Kennedy Shelter •Robert Blanset: White Rocks Area •Mark Beaver: South of PA 850 •Andy Buttles: North of PA 850 and a small piece of Cove Mountain •Cliff Garrett: Cove Mountain North •Paul Smith: Cove Mountain South

MCM and Monitoring the Appalachian TrailAndy Buttles

Gary Reinoehl, Dan McQueen, and Andy Buttles, cleaning up the corridor

A monitoring map

A typical monument

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New members for September – December 2019ADIPUDI, RaviANDROS, linda,ATKINSON, Dan & SherBAllOU, leise & DaveBANKERT, BillBARDEllI, ElizabethBECKER, JackieBRODNICKI, MariayneBRUMBACK, MartyBYRNE, DoreenCANE, David & SuzanneCHENG, Xiaoning & Shaoguang WUCOlE, ReginaldCOlEMAN, ZachCOllIER, Debbie

COllISON, TerryCOUSE, MatthewDE VOS, PieterDElCIEllO, SusanDESAI, ShalinDETOY, KellyDOlGACHEV, Nadia & DenisFARBER, AllanFISHER, MarilynFOSTER, SallyFUSElIER, Karen & GaryGATHERCOlE, Mary & RickGNIAZDOWSKI, VictoriaGOBBERT, MatthaisHAll, DavidHEMlER, Bob & Trish

HOGAN, PatriciaHOROWITZ, SusanJANES, MikeJIMENEZ, PollyJOHNSON, TiaKERWIN, Jean & MichaelKHAN, RobinKREIZEl, NikkilEWIS, BriannalIllY, GwenlOUGH, EddieMADDURI, VenkataMORISY, MicheleMOWERY, CleoNIGRO, liaO’CONNEll, Jeff

PARISH, SuePAUl, PamelaPIE, JohnRODGERS, MaryROWE, GeraldineTHACKER, GailTHAlER, Joseph & TheresaTODES, JudithTURNER, JamesVIllANYI, Pam & SteveWAlKER, NormaWAllS, AdamWIlKINSON, KathleenWOlVERTON, Cindy

For new members’ contact information, log onto the MCM website (www.mcomd.org) as a member, click on “About Us”, then “Document Repository”, then “MCM Directory”.

MOUNTAIN CLUB OF MARYLANDhttp://www.mcomd.org • contact@mcomd.org

OFFICERS President: Jay GordonVice-President: Cliff GarrattTreasurer: Jan OvercashierRecording Secretary: Dick PaabyCorresponding Secretary: Bob Goren

COUNCILORSAlan Cohenlarry FreemanKaren Ohlrich

COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONSArchivist: Janine GrossmanExcursions: Steve Kempler Joe WroblewskiMembership: Debbie CobleNewsletter Editor: Ed Warner Outreach Coordinator larry FreemanSupervisor of Trails: Jerry WrightShelters: Bill SaundersWebmaster: Duncan GlendayLocal Trails (Patapsco): Janine Grossman/ Gary ReinoehlA.T. Corridor Monitor: Andy ButtlesHike Across Maryland: Sharon SniffenListserv: Ed WarnerAwards Bob CarsonMiles FundJohn NethercutHoliday Party and Picnic linda Hinton

PUBLICATIONS STAFFSpecial Projects: Karen Klinedinst Trip Schedule Layout: John EckardNewsletter Layout: John EckardAssistant Webmaster Bill leimbachWeb Content Manager: Norm RevisPublic Schedule: Matthias Gobbert

DELEGATES Keystone Trails Association: Ann RobertsMid-Atlantic Regional Partnership Council: Mike O’ConnorMaryland A.T. Management Committee: Jerry Wright

Electronic ServicesCHANGE OF ADDRESS OR EMAIL ADDRESS: Contact Debbie Coble, Membership Chair, at: membership@mcomd.org

LISTSERV: To send a message to the listserv group, send it to: mcom@yahoogroups.comWith questions, contact: Ed Warner at: edwarner@hotmail.com