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I started a new company, TrailACT, to take the jump design page to a new level with BASE-Bf.

In 1992 I lived at home and kept my nose in the books while attending the University of Arizona. At that time one of my circles of friends and acquaintances outside of botany was a number or astronomy and mathematics geeks of sorts, and law student or two. I think it was among them that

I had an issue with the plugin running the jump calculator. I really don’t know when it failed, but the plugin wrecked the site for a minute. 2026 is the 10 year anniversary of the Jump Calculator! Though it began in 2014/15, 2016 it went live: AND thank goodness for the WAY BACK MACHINE: https://web.archive.org/web/20160319230759/http://trailism.com/trail-science/jump-design/

I’m back home in NY and snowed in with an injury, so I had a spare minute to share an update to the stairs on trails page… I made the “shoehorning” steps image below as a contractor I was working for was struggling with a state employee who insisted that steps should NEVER be put

On a random search trailism.co came up! I have nothing to do with it, but I guess they liked the name. It’s not a stretch to think they came up with the name independently, it’s not that original, but damn if unique domain names aren’t hard to come by. At this time there is no

Four years ago I did an e-bike post that was poorly written in hindsight, or there wasn’t too much insight. I don’t know that version two is much better this time around, but there are some new thoughts: E-Bike (E-Motor Bike) “Problems” On Trails

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