Volunteers clear another 20 km of Goat River Trail

By Kevin Gibson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Rocky Mountain Goat Nine Fraser Headwaters Alliance volunteers spent five days clearing approximately 20 km of the upper Goat River Trail in late August. Equipped with chainsaws and brush saws, volunteers Roy Howard, Taylor Bachrach, Al Birnie, Simon Zukowski, Oliver Berger, Rob Mercereau, Bryan Lepine, Ryan Hunt and Keegan Ouest worked from two previously established campsites until the crews connected their cleared sections.