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News to me, looking forward to random trail humor if it lands:

For those of you waiting since May, sorry, but 4-5 months of refinements and a major platform change came together to deliver a better tool. The free single feature version for jumps is available at TrailACT. I look forward to refinements through time, but feel like it’s finally on stable footing, enjoy. I will move

I know bike lanes and speed cameras aren’t really trail-specific, but they are trail-adjacent, and we sometimes use them to get to trails or from one trail to another. Why not have proven safety measures? Oh, that’s right—it’s coming from the same people who promote vaccine skepticism. That said, I can’t begin to express my

HEY, there is a new rating system, and I like it, so think about this for trails: International Trail Rating System More here: traileaffectpodcast – ITRS I have a small suspicion that it will go poorly in the US because, well, it’s the US, we often thumb our noses at anything International, and are stupid

The old jump design page on Trailism started as a rough calculator I uploaded back in 2014. It worked, but it never grew into what I actually wanted: something that treated trail features as a real physics problem instead of a back-of-the-napkin sketch. That tool finally exists, and it has its own home now: TrailACT

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