1. Flying McLeods September work trip
(EventList / Flying McLeods Projects / Flying McLeods September work trip)

... Flying McLeods will provide tools, training and encouragement.  ...

2. Wildcat Ridge
(EventList / Wildcat Ridge)

... and waterbars to reshape and blowdowns to cut.  Bring lunch, water; The Flying McLeods will provide tools, training and encouragement.  ...

3. Flying McLeods Projects
(EventList / Flying McLeods Projects)

Our volunteer trail crew in the South District, the Flying McLeods, concentrates on projects behond the scope of the trail overseer. These include rehabilitating badly eroded treadway over a significant ...

4. The Long Sleep is Over
(The Stacks/News Archives)

... Gap and the top of Loft Mountain. The Flying McLeods are up and running, fighting erosion one waterbar at a time. May 22 is the annual South District picnic at Dundo Picnic Grounds. It’s a day when no ...

5. Flying McLeods 2010 Tour
(Flying McLeods/About Us)

Following are proposed work trip dates—and a few other calendar items - for the Flying McLeods’ 2010 season. More information will be provided as each date approaches. March 20 Work trip ...

6. Regrading the A.T. at Ivy Creek
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

An astonishingly large crew of nine people turned out on yet another hot day to dig in the dirt on the Appalachian Trail going north from the Ivy Creek crossing. Liz Young, Michael Groah, Mike ...

7. About the Crew
(Flying McLeods/About Us)

The Flying McLeods Our crew was organized in 2007 to repair steep, eroded sections of the Appalachian Trail in the South District of Shenandoah National Park. We regrade tread and replace or repair ...

8. 2009 District Manager's Report
(District Manager/Blog)

... 9th at the J. Frank Schairer Trail Center. Registrations were impossibly low, although we had obtained the commitments of an outstanding volunteer staff. The Flying McLeods Mark and his crew continued ...

9. Great Eastern Trail - Carr Mountain
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

Mark on the Carr Mountain Trail Join the Southern Shenandoah Valley Chapter and the Flying McLeods as we “channel” the spirits of Myron Avery and other PATC pioneers in the creation of a new long-distance ...

10. On the Upcoming Trail Management Workshop
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

I never liked going to church. Getting dressed up and sitting inside on a pefectly good Sunday was torture. Mom, with motherly logic, said “God gives you seven days; you can give Him one hour.” Well, Mom, ...

11. Condolence
(The Stacks/News Archives)

... National Park and the Jefferson & George Washington National Forest. Mark formed, trains, and leads the Flying McLeods volunteer trail crew in the South District of Shenandoah National Park.  ...

12. Flying McLeods go to the other side...of the Valley
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

... National forest trails don’t get nearly as much use as the AT, so the workload generally involves blowdown removal, with a little bit of treadwork thrown in. On October 12th, the Chapter and the McLeods ...

13. Working On Weaver Mountain
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

Last spring, Shawn Green asked the Flying McLeods to help out on his section of trail going south out of Simmons Gap. We got a start on it in August with some regrading. On a chilly, breezy October Saturday, ...

14. Trail to Every Classroom joins the Flying McLeods
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

The Flying McLeods will be joined on our next worktrip by a group of Honor Society students from Riverheads High School who are involved with Trail to Every Classroom (TTEC). The students are led by their ...

15. 2008 District Report
(The Stacks/District Manager Archives)

... the winter of 2007–2008 was exceedingly mild, which resulted in water problems in the late spring and summer. The Flying McLeods The 2008 Flying McLeods crew Although The Flying McLeods crew ...

16. Getting Trail Tools
(Maintenance/Trail Maintenance)

... tried cutting too many twigs bigger than they are suitable for. Not sold many places. The shorter K-800 model is more common. McLeod Recently, I decided my life would be simpler if I had my own McLeod. ...

17. Doing the Dips
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

... the valley fog, the visuals were exceptional. Fortunately, John Shannon had a camera. Anyway, the Flying McLeods met at the Loft Mountain Camp Store to work on the steep section going up to the Frazier ...

18. First Annual South District Trail Maintenance Workshop
(The Stacks/News Archives)

... and wisdom of his thirty-year career at SNP—a career soon to end as he approaches retirement. We greatly appreciated his crew’s presence at the workshop and presented the men with the coveted Flying McLeods ...

19. Regrading the AT at Ivy Creek
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

An astonishingly large crew of nine people turned out on yet another hot day to dig in the dirt on the Appalachian Trail going north from the Ivy Creek crossing. Liz Young, Michael Groah, Mike ...

20. What's Happening?
(The Stacks/District Manager Archives)

... McLeods, a new PATC volunteer trail crew that works on the A.T. in our South District. 2007, their inaugural year, was fruitful and 2008 promises to be even more so. After all, there’s never a dearth of ...