The Pine Mountain Trail southwest from the new Birch Knob Shelter got some maintenance work on Saturday, December 1st. A crew re-blazed out to Big Lick Gap, clearing up some areas of confusion, mainly around Cantrell Gap. Some time was spent looking for a suitable spring site near Grassy Gap. Not much left of an early home site except for foundation stone and and the odd piece of metal.
Another gap nearby had piled fieldstone breastworks, likely constructed by Confederate forces prior to being overrun by troops under future US President James A. Garfield in 1862.
