Ramapo Crew Spotlight
The Bergen Record ran a story on one of the TCCC crews PDF format The_Record_(Bergen_Edition)_20170722_A01_2 The_Record_(Bergen_Edition)_20170722_A06_3
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Recreation in the Forest
I read a great article recently on Woody Keen (here). What an inspiration. I continue to run into other Keen-like figures on the east coast, and I recall working with a few on the west coast as well. Some were purely mountain bikers, some purely hikers, some both. Regardless, as Keen said, “We’re still fighting…
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Great Zimbabwe’s Stone Ruins
While I admire dry stone artistry, walls, fences, borders, and enclosures stir up mixed emotions for me. Walls were not the cause of Manorialism and Enclosures, nor nation-state borders and landlordism, but in my mind they helped spell the end of liberty in the form of dispossession and expropriation via the realization of primitive accumulation.
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From Mine to a Universe of Rocks and…
Another one for the “bucket list.” What better use for an old coal mine than a whole new universe? This is just what the Duke of Buccleuch and architect Charles Jencks did with an open cast coal mine located within Scotland’s Lowther Hills. read more
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Happy Tau Day
Today is actually Summer Solstice in this hemisphere, but Tau day is a only a few decimals away…the 28th: Happy Tau Day To berm or not to berm, the turn, is sometimes a question.
Germany gives green light to bicycle highways
… no red lights, no trucks, just a clear, smooth lane more I’m not sure what their (dirt) trail infrastructure is like.
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2017 TCCC
The 2017 Trail Conference Conservation Corps has started…looking forward to another great year.
Anyplace America
Anyplace-America contacted me about adding a link to Trailism’s mapping resource page. After a little surfing on the Anyplace-America website I decided it might be worth creating a post to say it’s worth checking out. Their trail page is a good start. The PDF topo maps seem to be geo-referenced, but I have not confirmed
Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast
Keesing and Ostfeld, who have studied Lyme for more than 20 years, have come up with an early warning system for the disease. They can predict how many cases there will be a year in advance by looking at one key measurement: Count the mice the year before. continue
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Trail Safe
TRAIL SAFE! is a unique safety training program designed specifically for National Park Service (NPS) Trail Volunteers, but is useful to everyone! It’s based upon NPS Operational Leadership Training, where the Human Factor of safety is explored. Trail Safe! captures the core learning objectives of the 16 hour Operational Leadership course while allowing volunteers to