Name: Seneca Creek Backcountry Trail Maintenance
Start: 2025-07-26T02:00:00.000Z
Location: Johnny Meadows Group Campground

Otter Creek is one of my favorite (and lesser used) Wilderness areas. Information on it is here:

http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mnf/recreation/recarea/?recid=12369

Please click on and print a copy of the Otter Creek Wilderness Brochure along with the trail map and bring them with you.

We will do trail maintenance while staying at Bear Heaven Campground for free and you will get to learn how beautiful an area it truly is with wild and wonderful waterfalls, and great brook trout fishing in a deeply forested setting.

June 27th- arrive at Bear Heaven Campground around 10:30 to 11:30PM and set up camp. I will send out an email with directions and our campsite location, and have a campfire going for the group.

June 28th - we will drive to our trail head and work on clearing brush on the chosen trail and learn some of the secrets of this beautiful area. Much of the hike is along Otter Creek, so opportunities to swim if you want. If the weather is agreeable, we can also backpack into a camp on the creek or stay at Bear Heaven with a group dinner and campfire.

June 29- Pack up, and drive home.

Remember we will be out of cell range, so if you need to contact me, do so by noon on Friday June 27, as I will go to camp early.

I pushed this event back a week so we can enjoy more of the abundant rhododendron blooms, so hope you can make it for a relaxed weekend in a gorgeous wilderness area while we give back to the greater outdoor community and support the Forest Service!

The Washington Backpackers Meetup Group

Jim Newman

Otter Creek Trail Maintenance + Backpacking!

Bear Heaven campground

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ONLINE (self-paced) Wilderness First Aid available ALL DAYS NOW until June 30th

Online event

Ok, here is one of our classic annual work trips and party on the mountain in the best Wilderness areas in the Mid-Atlantic! We will head up to Dolly Sods on Friday evening, backpack in about 1/2 mile at the Red Creek trail head behind Laneville Cabin. We will break into groups of 5-7 and do trail maintenance on trails in Dolly Sods and Roaring Plains for the Monongahela National Forest Service! The trails and views are fabulous while doing the work and afterwards we can do some swimming and campfire fun at camp! Summer is a great time to visit the "Sods" as Red Creek will "almost" not freeze you to death when you swim in it! By the end of the weekend you will be able to relive all the great sights and know everything about Dolly Sods, especially how much cooler it is up there in the Summer! The Huckleberries and Blueberries should almost be ready by then to enjoy as you walk the trails in the "High Country" and the Rhododendron may still be in bloom as well! We will do our normal feast on the mountain, so the food will be first rate with a pot luck for Saturday dinner. The cabin is in disrepair so not available, so we can do a group feast with what we bring in our cars. People will need to bring some sides or another dessert or drinks, and everyone needs to help with the cooking and/or cleanup. Normally the food contribution ends up being around $20 per person so bring cash. You will need to supply breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. So let's do our annual trail maintenance in Dolly Sods and Roaring Plains like we did 5 years ago and fix up Rocky Point, Dunkenbarger, and Roaring Plains trails so people don't keep getting lost coming down it! In the process you will learn all there is to know of one of the finest Wilderness Areas in the United States, while making a few more great friends with great stories to boot! Please be in shape as Dolly Sods can be some of the toughest hiking in the East but we will vary the work crews to suit your fitness level. For the newbies, this year will have to backpack up Red Creek 1/2 mile to camp, but will be next to Red Creek where we all linger far into the night and one of those memories you will remember for a long time...especially the cool Dolly Sods summer evenings (15-25 degrees less than the DC area)! So for your effort on Saturday you get 2 nights in your tent in a beautiful location next to a swimming pool and whirlpool, give back to a great Wilderness while enjoying the coolest place to be in Summer in our area, help the backpacking and hiking community, and get a great party to boot! Kids and well behaved dogs are welcome, so this is a family event as well. Oh, the pictures you ask? Check out some of the many Hidden Falls, Swimming Holes and Vistas you will get to enjoy as we did in year's past! Pics here:

http://www.meetup.com/dc-backpackers/events/13192731/

and here:

http://www.meetup.com/dc-backpackers/events/13457820/

So enjoy the pics and get ready for one of our great summer extravaganzas on the mountain, Washington Backpackers Meetup Style in all it's glory!

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Laneville cabin/ Red Creek trail head GPS location:
38.97234,-79.39824

Map of Dolly Sods and driving directions, information, and wilderness restrictions here:

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5152038.pdf

Please print a copy of the map and bring it with you.

\*\*\*\*Remember there is no cell service where we will be so if you have to contact us, please do so by Friday by noon as we will go up early.

Weather: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.020266643861994&lon=-79.32609558105469#.UdwOODvQqeR

To sign up for potluck, please respond to me in the discussion.

Buck

Adam West

Ariadna FarBas

Dolly Sods/Roaring Plains Trail Maintenance and Party!

Red Creek Trail head Dolly Sods

This trip is for trail maintenance in the Seneca Creek Backcountry which has cool weather for summer and great campsites for all of us to stay in. There is great fishing in Spruce Knob Lake, Seneca and Gandy Creeks and that gorgeous high mountain backcountry to enjoy! I will also lead a trip through Sinks of Gandy Cave on Sunday, which is an adventure in itself! If you are going through the cave, bring swimming trunks (or shorts along with a tee shirt you can get muddy), water shoes, towel , soap, and a strong flashlight, all for a job well done on the trails! This is a trip I have done for years for friends and family and the last few years for the group and has always been a summer favorite. As always we will have a feast on Saturday for dinner (lots of great Dutch oven cooking, details to follow), so about $30 a head will buy you 2 breakfasts, superb dinner, and campsite for the weekend, with great times lingering far into the evening. Our camp has a superb location on the back side of Spruce Knob on Gandy Creek, so cool evenings are guaranteed. If you have not been to Seneca Creek Backcountry let me tell you it has some of the wildest, highest and most beautiful country in the Eastern U.S.! As usual on Sunday, we will do our usual cave wading tour, so come prepared with water shoes, bathing suit, towel and spare dry clothes as your reward for a job well done!

So let's clear out those deadfalls we saw on our backpacking trips in January and April, put up some blue diamond blazes and do some brushing and give back to another beautiful area where the Potomac River reaches it's highest headwaters, in the clear cool mountain air high up on the back side of Spruce Knob in West Virginia for another great cool summer weekend you will not forget!

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