Volunteer...
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 Volunteers are the backbone, heart, soul, mind, and muscle of PATC. With volunteer effort, PATC maintains over 1,000 miles of trails, manages 1,000 acres of land and oversees 60 cabins and shelters. Please volunteer some of your spare time...we need you!
The PATC has numerous volunteer opportunities available. There is something available for just about everybody, from maintaining a section of the AT to taking cabins reservations; from helping to organize the club's archives to leading nature hikes. Some volunteer activities will allow you to enjoy solitude on your own section of trail; other activities will allow you to meet and spend time with lots of other like-minded people.
Use the menu links (left) to learn more about the variety of PATC volunteer opportunities.
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Reporting Your Volunteer Hours |
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Accurate and timely work reporting is essential to our efforts to manage our trail system, as well as our huts, cabins, publications, and headquarters operations. Work reports allow us to determine the amount of labor required by specific tasks, and predict the need for additional volunteers. Our various partners (the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Shenandoah National Park, GW National Forest, and others) use our cumulative work reports to procure funding for their conservation efforts.
 The PATC provides an on-line set of work reporting forms that make the process simple and convenient (mailed forms are also welcome). The on-line forms can be accessed via the "Volunteer Menu" (without log-in) or the "Member Menu" (log-in required). To use the "Member Menu", log on to this website (if you don't have an account yet, simply the click the "Register" link to create one), and click "Work Reporting" from the Member Menu.
PATC volunteers are hard at work on an improved work reporting system that will hopefully be available in 2009. The new system will be linked to an on-line database. PATC volunteers, managers, and partners will be able to access work hours and cumulative reports in "real time." This new system is one of the reasons that volunteers need to be logged in to report their work (their log-in ID will be linked to the new reporting system).
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New Boots
The PATC thanks the following new volunteers (or "current overseers" taking on additional tasks):
Volunteers Appointed in June
Trails
Fred Richardson Crusher Ridge Trail
Jeff Landis Blackrock Hut Access Trail
Patrick Miller Meneka Peak Trail
Alan Koontz Devils Nose Connector
William C. Boyce, Jr. Taylor Farm Road
Rick Parkhurst Mutton Hollow
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