Half Tau Day and Spring Again
Not that I need to re-post old posts, but it’s hard not to admire (half) tau (pie) day, and the circle of seasons as we head towards spring in the northeast.
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Grasshopper Geography
Although I don’t think they would be as dramatic or beautiful as the watersheds and forest maps at grasshopper geography, it would be interesting to have similar maps for trails. I am sure it is a question of when, not if. These maps certainly drive home the tread watershed concept.
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John Muir on Hiking
I don’t like either the word [hike] or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not ‘hike!’ Do you know the origin of that word saunter? It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the middle ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages
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Nutrient Collapse
This is (mostly) a trail web space, but sometimes I share other stories. This story on plants isn’t a feel-good story, but how much of the news is not sad as of late? At any rate, plants have been getting more carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution. The result, “measurements of fruits and vegetables show
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Edward Burtynsky
A fellow trail builder shared Edward Burtynsky’s work with me some time ago. It’s hard to forget some of his work, or his documentation of the spoils of other people’s work, and nature, or as he says: Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work…These images are meant as metaphors to the
Guide for Quality Trail Experiences (GQTE)
The relatively new GTQE was created by the BLM and IMBA. A link to the document is here: GQTE Dirt Rag has an overview here: Access: How to build friggin’ awesome mountain bike trails (that are actually legal) It is a nice document, but don’t get bound too tightly by the pages.The Pennsylvania Trail Design
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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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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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