CFPA Rock Workshop on the Metacomet Trail

The CFPA held its fall workshop in Penwood State Park . The workshop was to re-construct a set of stone steps on the Metacomet trail from the 1940s. A crew from the Ragged Mt preserve showed us how to use grip hoists to move very large pieces of rock.

We parked near Lake Louise which was very pretty with its fall colors.

From there it was a short walk to the bottom of the stone steps. A section of the trail had been "rediscovered" when a very large blowdown was removed (bottome right in the picture).

We set up a series of griphoists to move very large pieces of rock into place.

After a bunch of work we were left with this lovely staircase.