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Quarterly Club Schedule Winter 2020

​Greeneville Hiking & Cycling Club – WINTER SCHEDULE (Jan-March) 2020 Greeneville, Tennessee www.greenevilletnhikingcycling.com


JANUARY:
WEDNESDAY, 1 – 3 Mile, Strenuous, Annual New Year’s Resolution Hike to Margarette Falls. Hardees’s 9:30 am. Trailhead 10 am.

SATURDAY, 4 - Christmas Party and Quarterly Meeting at St. James Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall on Church Street. Bring a covered dish, salad, desert or drink. 5 p.m. Coordinate your dish with Peggy Winfree or Linda Jones if you wish. Bring a gift for the White Elephant Auction. Everyone is Welcome.

SATURDAY, 11 – 2 Mile, Easy, Loop Hike around Beaver Lake in North Asheville. Lunch after the hike at Luella’s Bar-B-Que.Hardee’s 8 am. Mike Church

SUNDAY, 12 – 2.5 Mile, Easy, Double Loop Hike at Panther Creek State Park in Morristown on the Old Wagon and Nature Loop Trails. Hardee’s 1:30 pm, Trailhead 2:15 pm. Brenda Small

SATURDAY, 18 – 3 Mile, Moderate, In/Out Hike on AT from Sams Gap to High Rock and return. Food City/Bypass 8 am.Jeannine Horton

SATURDAY, 25 – 3.5 Mile, Moderate, Loop Hike on the AT and Mill Ridge Trails near Hot Springs, NC. Hardee’s 8 am. Mike Jones

SUNDAY, 26 – 1.2 Mile, Easy, In/Out Hike to Sill Branch Falls near Horse Creek. Can be longer if you wish! Food City/Bypass.1:30 pm. Jeannine Horton

FEBRUARY:
SATURDAY, 1 – 5 Mile, Moderate, Loop or In/Out Hike on Roberts Gap Trail near Harmons Den, NC. Hardee’s 8 am. Jeannine Horton

SATURDAY, 8 – 5 Mile, Easy-Moderate, In/Out Hike in the Doe River Gorge, along the railroad tracks near Elizabethton. Food City/Bypass 8 am. David Douthat

SUNDAY, 9 – 3 Mile, Easy-Moderate, Loop Hike at Panther Creek State Park in Morristown to Lookout Point via 7 Sink Holes Trail. Hardee’s 1:30 pm, Trailhead 2:15 pm. Brenda Small

WEDNESDAY, 12 – 4 Mile, Moderate, In/Out Hike on the Little River and Cucumber Gap Trails in the Elkmont area of the GSMNP. Breakfast on the way. Hardee’s 8 am.

SATURDAY, 15 – 6 Mile, Moderate-Strenuous, Loop Hike on the AT and Iron Mountain Trails at Damascus, VA. Food City/Bypass 8 am. Mike Church .

SATUDAY, 22 – 7.2 Mile, Moderate, In/Out Hike on the Laurel River Trail near Hot Springs, NC. Hardee’s 8 am. Jeannine Horton

SUNDAY, 23 – 4 Mile, Easy, In/Out Hike on the AT from Allen’s Gap to Log Cabin Road. Hardee’s 1:30 pm. David Douthat

SATURDAY, 29 – 7.4 Mile, Moderate, In/Out Hike on Brushy Mountain and Porters Creek Trails to Campsite #37 in the Greenbrier area of the GSMNP. Hardee’s 8 am. Mike Jones

MARCH:
SATURDAY, 7 – 5 Mile, Strenuous, Trail Maintenance Work Hike on Turkey Pen Cove Loop near Horse Creek. Food City Bypass 8 am. Jeannine Horton

SUNDAY, 8 – 4 Mile, Easy-Moderate, In/Out Hike to Sutton Ridge Overlook in the Cosby section of the GSMNP. Hardee’s 1:30 pm. Trailhead 2:30 pm. Brenda Small

SATURDAY, 14 – 6 Mile, Moderate, Loop Hike around Hungry Mother State Park Lake in Marion, VA. Followed by Supper at Pizza Perfect. Food City/Bypass 8 am. Mike Church

SATURDAY, 21 - 5 Mile, Easy-Moderate, In/Out Hike in Rocky Fork State Park on the Rocky Fork and Flint Creek Trails.(Maybe some wild flowers will be out). Food City/Bypass 8 am. David Douthat

SATURDAY, 28 – Quarterly Mtg. & Covered Dish at Horse Creek Pavilion. Hike at 1 pm. Covered Dish & Meeting at 3 pm. Bring a covered dish, dessert or drink. Everyone is Welcome. Peggy Winfree & Linda Jones

SUNDAY, 29 – 3.5 Mile, Easy, Loop Hike at Seven Islands Birding Park in Kodak crossing the new French Broad Pedestrian Bridge to Newman’s Island. Hardee’s 1:30 pm. Ron Smith


NOTICE 1
Safety Issue - Club Stays Update June 2020
“Club Members, in consideration of the following:

1. We are a club of primarily older aged individuals and as often does accompany age, there tends to come the addition of factors that put many of our members into a high risk category!
2. Only a very few number of members have expressed interest in re-opening the club at this time. Even fewer in leading and or being responsible for leading an event.
3. We are not a for-profit business and thus our economic survival does not rest on taking an inappropriate risk to reopen at this time, to put our members at increased risk, or to assume increased liability for that risk.
4. The numbers of infectious and hospitalized with Covid-19 continue to be on a rising trend in our region, our state and most certainly in the states that surround us and where people often travel to and from here, and from there to our regions trails, parks and forests in this area. Not a single state in our region has met the CDC criteria for re-opening in spite of having done so and we are beginning to see the results of that in the data that is being reported.
5. Some people are refusing to follow safe and reasonable guidelines to protect themselves and others.
6. We are still in the midst of a global pandemic. There is still no available definitive treatment, or vaccine available.

In consideration of these factors, member discussion and other available data, I believe that the executive board is in agreement that the club continues in a holding pattern with NO club sanctioned events at this time. We will re-evaluate at a later date. In appreciation of and consideration of the many years most of the club leadership and event leaders have diligently worked to keep the club going, I would also say that this break is well deserved for them! Without their ongoing efforts there would be no club, unless others step into those roles. Something to think about over this break period, that I have been communicating, that must be addressed for the future continuation of this club. Please use this break to focus on the health and safety of you and your family at this time.”

If a few members of our club still want to meet for a hike or bike ride, it can be coordinated on our Facebook Page by the people who want to do it; with the understanding and the following posted disclosure that “the event is not sanctioned by the club and people do it at their own risk, CDC guidelines are highly recommended.”

As far as October meeting, let’s review that in September.

I believe this new normal will have to be reviewed on regular basis, potential monthly based as the situation evolves and with club input.

Jeannine - Club President
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NOTICE 2
Safety Issue
(Expires TBA)
​Both the USA Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have advised that we are in one of the worst flu and respiratory virus seasons in almost 50 years. Please prepare yourself to stay healthy and take steps to help keep others from infection by following good hygiene and frequent quality hand washing techniques, cover your coughs and sneezes, wipe touched items with sanitizers, and when sick stay out of the public or wear an appropriate N95 facemask. There are some deadly and easy transmitted infections that are also drug resistant, emerging. Stay safe! Stay Informed. For more information please go to the cdc.gov website and/or the who.int and search viral and infectious diseases. If your a real researcher do a general google
​of virology and epidemiology too!