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Long Trail News volume 70

The Founding of the Green Mountain Club, by Reidun Nuquist (two pages) page 1 (0.1 MB)     page 2 (0.1 MB)

Join the Parade! Montpelier's Independence Day Parade read pdf (0.1 MB)

Join the Montpelier Parade!
    In celebration of the Green Mountain Club's 100th birthday, the Montpelier Section is again marching in the city's Independence Day parade. The popular annual event takes place on Saturday, July 3. Participants gather in the staging area at 5 P.M., for a 6 P.M. start.
    The parade route begins near Winter and Summer Streets, then proceeds down Main and State Streets and past the State House. Sidewalks are always lined with applauding spectators. There is family entertainment on the State House lawn before and after the parade. The lawn is also a good place for picnicking and watching the fireworks
    At the front of the Montpelier Section contingent will be club and section banners. The 27-foot Long Trail banner, prepared for the section's fiftieth anniversary, will be carried through the streets by hikers, sporting as many GMC logos as possible. They will be joined by trail workers, bikers, paddlers, snowshoers, and skiers, bringing the Green Mountains into the heart of Montpelier.
    You are invited to join the Montpelier Section on this briefest, easiest club outing of the year. Children and youth are especially welcome. To enlist, contact parade coordinators Thomas Weiss or Reidun Nuquist.

Dave Blumenthal receives President's Award read pdf (0.2 MB)

Dave Blumenthal dies read pdf (0.2 MB)

GMC Loses Dedicated Volunteers
Dave Blumenthal
    GMC board member [and Montpelier Section officer and activist] Dave Blumenthal died June 24, a month after receiving a President's Award from the club for his outstanding volunteer work (see p. 8). Dave, 37, was critically injured after he collided with a pick-up truck while descending a remote mountain road in Colorado on his mountain bike. He was competing in the Tour Divide, a 2,780-mile mountain bike race from Banff to New Mexico. Dave was flown to Denver, where he died the next day.
    Dave Blumenthal was a graphic designer and artist, and operated Studio Zoic in Montpelier, custom-designing furniture and exhibits. He graduated from Harvard and had a Master's degree from the Pratt Institute. Dave was very generous with his time and talents and volunteered for several other area organizations in addition to the Green Mountain Club. He enjoyed many outdoor adventures, including hiking in Alaska and backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail with his wife Lexi Shear. He also restored their Victorian house in Montpelier, doing much of the work himself. Dave leaves his wife Lexi, their four-year-old daughter Linnaea, his brother Pete Blumenthal, and his parents Ralph and Jenni Blumenthal of Holmdel, New Jersey.
    A memorial service for Dave Blumenthal was held outside GMC's Visitor Center Saturday, July 10. Over 225 family and friends attended.
    GMC Executive Director Ben Rose spoke at Dave's memorial service:
    Dave Blumenthal was one of the most active and creative volunteers in the Green Mountain Club's living memory. The club is a tight-knit community, and Dave leaves a giant empty place at our table.
    But GMC cannot make special claim to Dave's legacy. He was so many things to so many people. All of us gathered here today are now included in a new, larger community, pulling in friends and energy from many directions, with Dave at its heart.
    Speaking to all fellow members of this new community I propose that we make a pledge to each other: Let's all try to be a little bit stronger and a little bit braver. Let's try to be a bit more thoughtful with our words a bit more clever and creative with our hands.
    Let's be quicker with our smiles. Let's all be a bit more generous and a bit more gentle. In short let's try to be a bit more like Dave.
    If we can do that, we will all carry him with us through all of the adventures and discoveries which lie ahead, and his work of community-building will live on.
    Godspeed, Dave.

Dot Helling talks about Blue Water Run at GMC annual meeting read pdf (0.2 MB)

Bill Osgood dies read pdf (0.1 MB)

Montpelier Section helps launch Ridgeline Society read pdf (0.2 MB) 2011

One hundred issues of Trail Talk

The Fall 2011 issue of Trail Talk -- issue number 100 -- leads off with a brief history by Reidun Nuquist. She discusses the various mastheads that have appeared (shown at right) and writes
        "Many members have helped get out the newsletter over the years: Esther Farnsworth, Marilyn Wilson, Andrew Nuquist, Barbara Agnew, Mary Deaett, and Doris Washburn."
The editors for the first hundred issues of Trail Talk have been, in total, Reidun and Andrew Nuquist, Barbara Agnew, and (since 1999) Nancy Jordan. Printing for the last several years has been by L Brown & Sons Printing in Barre.