That's right.

Help is needed. This weekend. Your help.

Because Saturday is National Trails Day! And our trails can't get along without you.

You hike and camp on them. Bike on them. Walk and run on them. Ski and snowshoe on them.

You love them. Our trails.

So do more than just use them. Show 'em real love.

Anyone with the time and energy to hike on trails...

Has the time and energy to work on trails!

Join in on any of more than twenty National Trails Day events in Maine.

Get out there with others en masse. Wield a pair of brush clippers, a grub hoe, a bucksaw, a trash bag. Clear the trail. Clean the trail. Make it look some pretty.

It'll be fun. You'll love it. Guaranteed.

Your local trails group will love you, too, for volunteering some of your time for our trails.

Clearing the trail.

Moving logs for building a bog bridge (Photo courtesy Peter Roderick, Maine AMC).

A happy, tired MOAC trail crew.

But what about when National Trails Day has come and gone, what then?

Easy.

Keep up the good work, of course, by joining up with any of dozens of trails groups around Maine that can most assuredly use a few hours, a day, a couple of weekends of your time throughout the year to work on trails.

What are your plans for National Trails Day?