Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Dean McGaw(sp?) opens with, “predicting when a tree fails is really hard…” The same could be said for trails, but it’s not like we can’t make some educated guesses/hypotheses based on what we have seen, experienced, and know…as Dean does very well. PDF: Field Guide for Danger Tree Identification and Response Danger Tree Indicators 5-2-2014 […]
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An old video, but some interesting ideas and thoughts on the Tarahumara or Rarámuri culture, which has apparently changed in part because of tourism due to Christopher McDougall’s book Born to Run. diet: ajcn nutrition | runner’s world “Overtraining syndrome” — “…a generation of top ultrarunners are suddenly breaking down faster and in greater numbers…”
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Yikes, wow, and lame… video of the 2015 Rampage: here bad injury: discussed here, seen at 1:30:00 here Good that they used some of last year’s lines as to not do too much more damage to the fragile area. Some of the comments on Pink Bike gave me pause, but they are just comments, much
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http://blog-tw.nynjtc.org/doris-duke-loop-ribbon-cutting-hike/ another Doris Duke trail article To clarify, I designed 2/3rds of it. The first year Ama Koenigshof and John Mack laid out 1/3, and pushed the other 1/3rd to lay approximately where it is, and I worked out the details of exactly where and how. To be fair, Jeff Hutchinson, the park manager, pushed
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I wish I could have done the same…a shame, a sham Idaho is on my bucket list, especially Sun Valley and Ketchum with over 400 miles of single track, but perhaps Boulder-White Cloud will only be experienced from afar…
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The movie “A Walk in the Woods” wasn’t bad, but not great either (imo). Some of the footage was nice, and I did have a few good laughs. nytimes review
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Scott Jerek recently found himself amidst a trail controversy of sorts, a “trailism” to some, or maybe a public lands controversy: Reflections on the Appalachian Trail Outside Magazine’s Grayson Schaffer, and a cadre of commenters had thoughtful and heartfelt responses to the event (before Jerek’s account above). Backpacker Magazine also reported on the incident and
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There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal on yours truly. While the title, “A Trail Designer’s Job: Get Inside Hikers’ Minds” is apt, I do more than design and layout trails. (The print title was “Blazing a trail is all in a day’s work.”) Nonetheless, other than looking like a personal ad
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