February 2025

In 1987 Roger Bell was way ahead of the trail building curve with a handful of other trail contractors when he started Bellfree Contractors with two of his brothers and some nephews. That was 10 years after the Western Trail Builders Association was founded in 76, which became the PTBA in 2004. Roger’s brother Harvey […]

I hate to just be a jumping off point for a re post, but wanted to share: https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/400209/national-parks-trump-government-layoffs-visit-data Volunteer and/or donate if you can, wherever you are. Let’s hope we come out of this better than it was.

What follows is a trailism status update for those interested since I stopped posting on Instagram in January of 2025. I occasionally lurk on Instagram, but have effectively left and plan to remove the app 2/28. I still post some photos on Flickr occasionally. Keep the emails coming. I have a poor track record of