[HCRA] Volunteers Needed For The Franklin Land Trust's Deerfield Dirt Road Randonee

[Ken, KD1KU]

The Franklin Land Trust's Deerfield Dirt Road Randonee (D2R2)

The FLT's mission statement is, “We celebrate the landscaper, the 
history, and the rural culture of western Massachusetts, and work to 
ensure, through a program of land protection, that the historic pattern 
of field, woodland and village will endure for the benefit of 
generations to come.”

A major FLT fundraising event is the Deerfield Dirt Road Randonee (D2R2) 
and your help is needed, please consider volunteering.

The D2R2 consists of bicycle tours of up 180 km, routed on back roads in 
the countryside the FLT works to preserve. Not surprisingly, phone 
service is sparse in these areas. Since 2013 the FCARC has supported  
this event by providing  communication between event headquarters in 
Deerfield and sites in towns like Colrain MA and Guilford VT where 
water, lunch, and other support is provided for riders.

Last year, the D2R2 did not happen, this year plans for a modified D2R2 
have been announced. There will be only three routes, 100k, 160k, and 
180k.  The number of riders will be limited. There will be no catered 
sit-down lunches, but there will be six or more support locations with 
water and take-with food packages. There will be pre-packaged take-out 
dinners and the usual free beer and souvenir mug.

The FLT has again asked FCARC to help with communication between the 
event headquarters and several of the remote support sites where amateur 
radio is the best communications option. This is where you come in as 
volunteers are needed to make this work!

Full information is available at the FLT website: 
http://www.franklinlandtrust.org/d2r2

Please consider volunteering to help our FCARC friends with this great 
event!

Contact Al Woodhall, NA1W to volunteer,

Email - aswoodhull at yahoo.com
Cell - 413-348-1932

73, Ken ~ KD1KU