Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
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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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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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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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.
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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
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OSHA published its final silica rule in the Federal Register on March 25, 2016. The rule is comprised of two standards, one for Construction and one for General Industry and Maritime. The final rule is effective on June 23, 2016. Start-up dates for specific provisions are set in 29 CFR 1910.1053 for general industry. This
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I continue to be amazed at the volunteer trail efforts I have seen firsthand, or read about all across the world. This recent post (related), stumbling upon Trails Foundation, and a slew of groups in the southeast (like the many branches of SORBA), made me want to volunteer some of my time to finally write
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