Kelly Thomsen

1. No-Pay Stays

In its third year, the Peter Roderick Trail Award Scholarship was given to six AMC members, all first-time trail-work volunteers on AMC’s Maine Woods property. Established in 2016 by the Maine Chapter in honor of a longtime executive committee member, the scholarships cover the cost of food and lodging on volunteer trail-work trips based out of AMC’s three Maine Woods lodges. The chapter hopes to re-create last year’s success: Two 2017 scholarship recipients returned as paying participants in 2018. To apply for a 2019 scholarship, visit amcmaine.org. 

Read more: https://www.outdoors.org/from-the-magazine-blog/also-noteworthy-summer-2018 – temporarily offline during the AMC website transition.