Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
I was pleased to finally experience the new skills area at Raystown Lake, PA. It’s special for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is the first of it’s kind built on federal land. I feel like mountain biking has already secured a place in our culture as I see it used […]
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Some people may not be familiar with the terms trail gentrification, trail sanitation, or dumbing down. I linked to a post related to this about a year ago. I’m sure there are more terms tied to the same whipping post, but no more come to mind other than “flip-flop-ready”, and “stroller paths.” These words are
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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
Ramapo Crew Spotlight Read More »
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.
Great Zimbabwe’s Stone Ruins Read More »
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
From Mine to a Universe of Rocks and… Read More »
… no red lights, no trucks, just a clear, smooth lane more I’m not sure what their (dirt) trail infrastructure is like.
Germany gives green light to bicycle highways Read More »
“In a single footstep there are over 300 miles of fungal cells stacked end-on-end moving stuff around…a super highway” moving stuff between trees. The trees communicate and share resources through that network, and even across species. They aren’t speciesist, they are mutualists, interdependent cooperators. If humans could only learn from trees how to stand erect
If a Tree Falls…Other Trees Hear It Read More »
A few changes, or a rebirth of the old, is underfoot for 2017: I finally revived a number of long-time trail mapping projects of mine that I built with friend. They were (and are) too important and special for me not to revive. From the ashes, check out the new “Dirty Century” menu above to
Changes for Trailism in 2017 Read More »
by Trevor DeRuisé There are a lot of differences between the East and West Coasts. One has Starbucks while the other has Dunkin Donuts. One has poison ivy while the other has poison oak. One has outrageous gas prices, while the other… also has outrageous gas prices. We could spend all day comparing the two,
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…The new law requires the Forest Service to develop and implement a strategy to increase the number of volunteers working on trail maintenance, which it currently does not have. It also directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service, to study and authorize the use of off-season fire crews for additional maintenance
The National Forest System Trails Stewardship Act Read More »