Building Bridges

The bridges on School House Mountain Road are in need of repair. In particular the third bridge which prevents other bridges from being repaired. The money for the third bridge has been available for materials, but the project was stymied for lack of labor. The park has given permission for FoFHH to repair the bridges, beginning with bridge #3.

For this first project, the park will supply help in moving materials from the trail head to the worksite. FoFHH will supply the volunteer labor including management of the project.

John Magerlein and Walt Daniels have provided a work plan for bridge #3 to the park manager (subject to approval from the regional office) and have technical skills to train volunteers to

• build a temporary stream crossing
• dismantle the current bridge
• build a new bridge

Interested in helping out? Register by clicking HERE

or contact Jane Daniels (jdhiker@optonline.net) to sign up and she will let a work trip leader know of your interest.

See the pictures of the construction so far (thru Sept 26) (Big Powerpoint file - 20+ MB)

Work trip dates (people needed) - Tasks (subject to change)

• Saturday August 1 (8) - Build temporary crossing on rocks
• Sunday August 2 (6) - Set up high line to drag plates and beams off the bridge
• Saturday August 8 (6 -8) - Remove wooden bridge under steel bridge
• Saturday August 15 (6-8) - Move rocks for footings

Possible work trip dates - pending progress of previous trips, tasks include dragging beams and plates back, building horse friendly surface and handrail.

• Sunday August 16 (6) -
• Saturday August 22 (6) -
• Labor Day weekend September 5 -7 (6)
• Saturday September 12 (6)
• Saturday September 19 (6) -
• Saturday September 26 (6) -
• October 3 (6)

Jane Daniels, President, FoFHH Steering Committee
914-245-1250 
jdhiker@optonline.net