I regrettably forgot to post the exciting events of this past Friday with Team Swamp Dog, my sincerest apologies to those of you who look forward to reading our posts day after day. I hope you can forgive me :) Anywho, this past Friday was not your typical Friday with the NJ Greenteam. It began with the long-awaited return of one the Greenteam's favorite songs - the (in)famous Vlad. I was super pumped to work with Vlad again after a few years. As he does so perfectly, Vlad made his presence immediately known, firstly by quickly snagging shotgun in the van from me... Oh well. With Vlad's appearance capping off the week of visits of some alumni "ringers," we decided to have a full work day and continue our second project at Musconetcong Gorge. With foreshadowings of rain in the forecast, we tried not to be flustered by the 40-minute hike in, knowing we had to try to beat the rain all day. We continued to work on our long stretch of tread, bench-cutting, and constructing switchbacks and a few rock-steps. With the skies getting darker as the day went on, we worked straight to lunch, played a few nostalgic rounds of mafia with Vlad, or "The Don," and finished up the day with only one more day left to go on that section of the trail, and the looong hike in! Whew, at least we're all gonna be awesome shape by the end of the summer... As we made the trek back to Hoffman Park the skies finally opened up. When we returned to the parking lot we were greeted by Dan Klein, as well as a monstrous thunderstorm. We decided to try our luck by performing a rather unconventional rain dance. While aimlessly dancing to no music, an incredible new move was introduced by Lauren - THE DUBSTEP MOOSE!! It's kind of hard to describe a dance move in writing, so I'll let the following pictures speak the unspeakable.
All in all, a pretty solid Friday.
Take it easy,
Zach
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