{"id":1135,"date":"2018-07-27T20:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2018-07-27T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T00:29:16","slug":"ganaraska-trail-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Ganaraska Trail maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of the year, weeds may grow tall on the Ganaraska Hiking Trail. It is difficult to keep up with the maintenance, but today, we gave it our best, and cut weeds on a section of the Midland Ganaraska Hiking Trail. We attacked the weeds with whipper snippers, but really love working with scythes. This old-fashioned &#8220;jack the ripper&#8221; tool is light, and ergonomically designed. As such, volunteers can work with it for hours, without tiring. We also trimmed branches that were obscuring the blazes.<\/p>\n<p>Trail users should be reminded that the maintenance standards of the Ganaraska Hiking Trail are considered &#8220;minimal impact&#8221; to the environment, which means that we just clear enough to make the path and the blazes visible. And that is even a daunting task, but here are some pics of today&#8217;s effort, that show one of the teams at work and at rest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Carol-at-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1136\" src=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Carol-at-work-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Carol-at-work-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Carol-at-work-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Carol-at-work-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Carol-at-work-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Frieda-at-rest.jpg\">Attacking a jungle of tall weedsA<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1137\" src=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Frieda-at-rest-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Frieda-at-rest-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Frieda-at-rest-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Frieda-at-rest-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Taking a short break for a snack<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jochen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jochen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jochen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jochen-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jochen-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jochen-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A whipper snipper does a great job<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Margot-taking-a-short-break.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1139\" src=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Margot-taking-a-short-break-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Margot-taking-a-short-break-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Margot-taking-a-short-break-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Margot-taking-a-short-break-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Margot-taking-a-short-break-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>How much further?<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Team-at-rest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1140\" src=\"http:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Team-at-rest-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Team-at-rest-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Team-at-rest-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Team-at-rest-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Team-at-rest-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Team at rest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of the year, weeds may grow tall on the Ganaraska Hiking Trail. It is difficult to keep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghta","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}