AMC’s Trail Sign Auction

Have you ever wished you could take one of those distinguished white-background and green-lettered AMC trail signs home with you? You can! Every year the AMC’s White Mountain Trail Crew replaces weathered or out-of-date trail signs with new signs. These signs are considered collector’s items, having guided thousands of visitors for many years along celebrated paths throughout the Whites. And best of all, these retired signs are auctioned off with proceeds going to support trails in the Northeast! This year’s auction will take place on eBay and will begin on Tuesday November 22, 2011 at 12:00PM and ends on Friday, December 2 at 12:00PM. All proceeds will support AMC’s trail efforts in the Northeast. Here are a list of signs to be auctioned off

2011 Signs For Sale
– Osseo Trail Sign – This sign spent a relatively sheltered life at the junction of the Lincoln Woods Trail and the Osseo Trail just outside the Pemigewasset Wilderness.
– Goose Eye Trail Sign – Since 1985 this sign has lived at the start of the Goose Eye Trail, at the junction with the Carlo Col Trail, and served as a gateway to the Mahoosucs.
– Tuckerman Crossover Trail Sign – This humble little plank spent several long hard years living amid diapensia and mountain sandwort above treeline at the Tuckerman Junction. When not covered with rime ice or befuddled in fog, this sign directed countless numbers of hikers along the Tuckerman Crossover toward the Southside Trail and Lakes of the Clouds Hut.
– Cascade Brook Trail Sign – The only sign in this year’s auction to bear the AT logo, the Cascade Brook Trail sign spent many years at the Cascade Brook trailhead, which is also where the AT crosses Rt. 93 at Whitehouse Bridge.
– Ethan Pond Trail Sign – This sign had the not-so-difficult task of spending its useful life in the heart of the Zealand Valley along the Appalachian Trail, at the junction of the Zeacliff Trail and the Ethan Pond Trail.