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How About A Mon-Athon 2000 Outing in Your Monongahela National Forest!
"Mon-Athon 2000" is a West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC) project to celebrate and enjoy our wonder-full Monongahela National Forest. Mon-Athon 2000 is open to everyone -- this means you! Mon-Athon 2000 includes all types of outdoor recreational activities -- like hiking, biking, swimming, fishing, birding, hunting, boating, skiing, etc. -- in and adjoining the Mon National Forest proclamation boundary (marked as a green area on any state road map).
Join in a Mon-Athon 2000 public outing in the Mon, and/or report on your own private or group outdoor recreation activity. When you submit an outing activity report form, we will send you a FREE MON-ATHON 2000 T-SHIRT! And all activity participants whose names you send us will be entered in drawings during 2000 (July 15, October 15, and December 15) -- for FABULOUS OUTDOOR RECREATION PRIZES! You can fill out and submit an activity report form at the WVHC Web site -- http://www.wvhighlands.org -- or we’ll mail you forms. Send pictures of your outing activity and get a FREE Hiking Guide to the Mon. Want to list/lead an outing activity in the Mon in 2000? Great! Let us know, and we’ll list it in the WVHC’s outstanding monthly newspaper, The Highlands Voice -- with you as the leader/contact person.
For current outing schedules (new ones added regularly as year 2000 progresses), see above Web site; or, for current schedules, to get activity report forms, to list an outing, etc., contact: Tom Rodd, c/o West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, PO Box 306, Charleston, WV, 25321. E-mail: thomasrodd@hotmail.com. Phone: 304-345-7663 (WVHC Charleston Office); 304-265-0018 (home). Looking for ideas about recreational activities in your Monongahela National Forest? We can connect you with an experienced volunteer to talk about trip planning, destinations, gear, accommodations, etc. (The correct spelling of Thomas Rodd’s last name is not "RoDDD." Ed.)
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Not a Soul Around
A Mon-Athon 2000 Activity Report Excerpt
from Scott Reilly, Morgantown WV
"February 23, 2000. One-day hiking and birding trip to Otter Creek Wilderness, Tucker County, Forest Service Trails 131 and 130, Cheat Ranger District.
Started early in the morning, with not a soul around. The high volume of water flowing out of Otter Creek into the Dry Fork was our best company! The sun shone the entire day, causing a slight sweat to break out -- a welcome change ffrom the constant shivering of winter . . . hiked up Green Mt. Trail to and incredible overlook that showed nearly the whole Otter Creek drainage. Magnificent hardwoods, bare grey and waiting for spring! Trails were accurately described [in the Guidebook] and gave us plenty of warning about upcoming conditions."
Scott Reilly gets a free Mon-Athon 2000 T-Shirt for sending in his activity report. And all of his activity participants are entered in the drawings for fabulous prizes! Make your activity report, too -- try the Web at http://www.wvhighlands.org. It's easy!