The Digital Media Team has arrived and survived

The Digital Media Team is the group of Photographers and Videographers who are documenting the SummitCorps service project at the New River Gorge National Park.  They will be at the SummitCorps Project all four work weeks and will get around to document the progress that each crew makes each week. 

The Digital Media Team is comprised of one main videographer,  Parker S. , one main Photographer Alan R. and their adviser Terrel M.  This group of people are joined by other staff members each week to help document this momentous project.

After arriving on-site Parker and Alan went out into the field to see the I-Corps last training day.  The I-Corps are the InstructorCorps who will be in charge of all the crews when the service project starts.  This group of highly skilled men have been chosen from around the country and are some of the best of the best that there are for trail building. 


They started off the day with an inspirational talk from one of the National  Park Service employees, Tom (not sir) helping  to assist them on their training.

On this last training day the I-Corps did not slack, they started off the day with a safety tool talk.  Then they went on to not only make the trail better but did it with a cheerful manner.

On one occasion a large rock needed to get up a  hill and over to the place where everyone thought it would fit best.  So about 8 guys grabbed a rock sling and pulled this rock over the hill.

Once this rock was put into the place where it was wanted the group could not do anything but cheer and cheer and cheer.

One important task of trail building is that the rocks be broken up into smaller rocks that are then used for the top layers of trail.

At the end of the day the I-Corps had to destroy some trail by naturalizing (adding vegetation to it so people do not use it as much) it and they were given the task of deciding what needed to be done and who does it.  As they listened closely they learned their assignments for the naturalization. 

At the end of a long hard day of work the I-Corps heads back to the National Guard Armory in Jean Glenn West Virginia to rest and get back onto the trail soon with crews.