Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
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 […]
Nutrient Collapse Read More »
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
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
Guide for Quality Trail Experiences (GQTE) Read More »
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…
Recreation in the Forest 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 »
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.
… 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 »
The 2017 Trail Conference Conservation Corps has started…looking forward to another great year.
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
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
Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast Read More »