Ben Godsoe (Maine Conservation Corps/High Peaks Alliance) and Devin Littlefield (2010 Mt Abram graduate) work on part of the High Peaks Alliance’s heritage trail. (Contributed photo) MADRID — Volunteers were slated to work Aug. 21 and 28 on the first 2.5-mile segment of a proposed 35-mile large landscape, back country trail stretching from Strong to Oquossoc.

Named for the noted Maine Guide Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby, the proposed trail will be three years in the making as existing trails are linked together and new ones are created. Along the way there will be signage about the cultural and natural history of the area. At one point, the trail will cross over the Appalachian Trail.

“Conceived by the High Peaks Alliance in Phillips, where Crosby was born, and with support from the Sandy River Land Trust, the trail will be built entirely by volunteer labor,” says Ben Godsoe of Madrid and the Maine Conservation Corp.

The first 2.5-mile segment will be a new footpath along the Orbeton Stream in Madrid that was laid out by Devin Littlefield, a Mt. Abram High School student from Freeman Township and an intern with the Maine Conservation Corps this summer.

Godsoe is asking those who would like to help out either Aug. 21 or 28 to meet at the ATV/snowmobile kiosk near the Reeds Mill Road bridge over the Orbeton Stream at 10 a.m. Work will continue to about 3 p.m. each day. There will be a celebration cook out on the 28th.

Those who would like to help out on one or both of the volunteer days or want more information, should contact Godsoe at bgodsoe.srlt@gmail.com or 578-0306.