If I Had A Hammer

Day 351: What's more fun than a construction work party? Why, a DEconstruction work party, of course! After long years of saying "We need to build new tent platforms" and then revising that to "Nah, the old ones will last another season," budget and volunteer opportunity finally came together in time for National Public Lands Day 2019. Traditionally Mount Rainier National Park's largest volunteer event of the year, roughly seventy people gathered in front of the transportation exhibit yesterday before dispersing into three separate work groups: trails, reveg and campground. The campground unit set themselves to moving the platform tents and then pounding apart the deteriorating wood bases, salvaging what lumber could be reused and discarding the reast. Meanwhile, a second group turned the picnic pavilion into a pro-tem carpentry shop and zipped through the assembly of the ten new platforms which will be put into use next spring. The Weather Gods smiled on our endeavours, holding off the rain (if perhaps not the cold) until the projects were done.