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Club clears trail for hikers

York Hiking Club helped reroute a
portion of the Mason-Dixon Trail

By TERESA McMINN
For the Daily
Record/Sunday News

Article Launched: 04/15/2007
01:22:47 AM EDT

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Apr 15, 2007 — The grass was cold and wet after a
soaking rain, and the sun made a brief appearances through
clouds Thursday morning as Jim Hooper walked along a section
of hiking trail that overlooks the Susquehanna River and
several municipalities.

Hooper, president of the Mason-Dixon Trail System, and
volunteers from the York Hiking Club installed directional
posts, cleared brush, chopped roots and dug muddy ground to
reroute a portion of the Mason-Dixon Trail off a busy road and
onto Highpoint, county-owned property in Lower Windsor
Township.

The 193-mile trail travels from an area known as Whiskey
Springs in the Dillsburg area, Hooper, 65, said.

"It was named that because a guy used the spring to keep
his whiskey cool," he said.

Hooper, who wore gloves and a coat covered with "Natural
Park Yellow" and "Mason-Dixon Blue" paints used in making
markers for the trail, talked of the advantages of being a
hiking club member.

"You get to go places you'd probably never know about," he
said.

He also said the hiking club volunteers deserve

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credit for helping to build and maintain the trail.

Manchester Township resident Pat Turek used a Pulaski - a
tool that digs roots with one side and cuts with the other -
to widen a section of the trail in a wooded area as her
husband, Paul, worked nearby.

"We just became members the end of June," she said. "I'm so
new, I always thought the Indians left us these trails."

After helping work on the Mason-Dixon, she realized how it
really got there.

"This is back-breaking work," she said of labor the
volunteers put into the path. "They're just such dedicated
people ... This is a tremendous effort."

About a quarter-mile away, York Township resident Allen
Britton and Windsor Township resident Ron "Wrongway" Gray
joked with Hooper during a short work break.

"We have fun with each other," Hooper said of the hiking
club, which has about 130 members. "In this group, you can't
have thin skin."

Highpoint

In May 2004, York County commissioners condemned Highpoint,
a 79-acre parcel in Lower Windsor Township, for a park to
overlook the Susquehanna River. The value of the land is on
appeal in court.

Officials hope to have the park open to the public by June.

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