Fellowship of the McLeod

The Fellowship includes all who are given, grasp, and use a tool having a large, hoe-like blade on one end and a tined blade on the other, to grub out duff and grade the underlying mineral soil to create…the treadway for a hiking trail.

Membership is not as easy or as uncomplicated as it sounds. Membership is demanding: it demands a certain personal insanity. After all, its Brothers and Sisters arise early on a day when they (should) could remain asleep and travel Long Distances to Remote Locations.

To dig duff.

There’s no arguing with the work they perform, however. Members are known to spend all day working a section of ground measured in feet or inches, just to get the job done correctly. Therefore, all who use the McLeod become members of The Fellowship (or, Sistership).