PATC volunteers build and maintain trails, trailside shelters, and cabins.  Our crews are always looking for new members.  No experience is necessary.  You'll learn new skills, make an important contribution, and meet new friends.  Please consider joining a PATC volunteer work crew.  We'll be highlighting our crews in this space, over the next few months...

Pictured here with his wife Leslie, Lee is the District Manager for the Great North Mountain District, and a tireless volunteer working with all aspects of  the PATC web site.  Lee also sits on the Information Technology Committee, and is active in planning for changes to the Potomac Appalachian Newsletter related to its presence on the web.

He first became interested in hiking and camping as a Boy Scout in Arlington, Virginia, in the 1950’s.  As an adult, he re-kindled his interest in backpacking, mostly in the Shenandoah National Park and in the George Washington National Forest.  He met his wife Leslie hiking in SNP, and they have been married for 33 years.  Their love of the outdoors is a mutual joy.  Today they share trail overseer duties for Little Stony Creek Trail, below Big Schloss in the GW forest.

Lee retired from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2005, after 40 years of government service, and turned to PATC “to stay physically active, and do work I enjoy.”   From volunteering with Hop Long and Jim Tomlin on the Stonewall Brigade, Lee advanced to Trail Overseer, assistant District Manager, and District Manager.  When PATC began to look at future options regarding its web site, Lee volunteered for that project as well.  Like many of our volunteers, Lee wears many hats.  For the past five years he has worked as a team leader with club naturalist Bob Pickett, monitoring the biological health of streams on PATC lands, and also assists at PATC HQ with data entry chores related to trail work.

In addition to his work with PATC, Lee has been a Boy Scout leader in the Vienna/Dunn Loring area, and has mentored many boys as they became Eagle Scouts.  Lee has four children, all adults (and all involved with the great outdoors), and four grandchildren. He remains active in information technology, with expertise in database design and web site maintenance.  PATC is fortunate to enjoy the services of volunteers like him.