Best Day Ever | Building a More Inclusive Trail Community with Berne Broudy and Greg Durso | 201
For episode 201 we have Berne Broudy and Greg Durso. Berne is an outdoor journalist, storyteller, and happens to be the president of Richmond Mountain Trails a Non-Profit Trail Organization. Greg is an adaptive athlete and senior program director for the Kelly Brush Foundation. Together Berne and Greg helped to create the new film titled “Best Day Ever” a film about adaptive mountain biking, trail building and what it looks like when inclusion is part of the trail building process from the beginning.
Topics Include:
- The purpose and backstory behind the Best Day Ever movie
- Breaking ground on the Driving Range Trail System – Vermont’s first fully adaptive trail system.
- Challenges with building the Driving Range Trail System
- Some of the characteristics of an Adaptive Trail
- The intentionality of making the Driving Range sessionable, progressive and diverse in terms of trail experiences for all riders (and this system is mostly Blue, Black and Double Black).
- Greg participating in and getting other adaptive riders into the Fox U.S. Open downhill race at Killington, VT
- How DH Tracks lend themselves to being great for adaptive riders.
- Different types of Adaptive Mountain Bikes
- The Kelly Brush Foundation – Kingdom Trails – and Adaptive Mountain Bike Camps
- Expanding on what the Kelly Brush Foundation does
- What Berne learned through creating this movie “Best Day Ever”
- What Greg learned through filming the movie “Best Day Ever”
- Screenings of the movie “Best Day Ever” which you can do now!
- American Trails: Advancing Trails Webinar: A Guide to Adaptive Mountain Bike Trail Building
- What Berne looks for in a Mountain Bike Community
- What Greg looks for in a Mountain Bike Community
- What Greg thinks the future of adaptive trails looks like
- Closing Comments
Trail EAffect Show Links:
Best Day Ever Movie: https://www.bestdayever.mov/
The Driving Range Trail System: https://www.richmondmountaintrails.org/the-driving-range
Richmond Mountain Trails: https://www.richmondmountaintrails.org/
How to donate to the film (w/ a $25k Matching Grant): https://www.bestdayever.mov/impact
Heartland Film Festival: https://www.heartlandfilm.org/festival
The Kelly Brush Foundation: https://kellybrushfoundation.org/
American Trails Webinar: A Guide to Adaptive Mountain Bike Trail Building (10/30/2025): https://www.americantrails.org/training/a-guide-to-adaptive-mountain-bike-trailbuilding
Trail EAffect Podcast Website: www.traileaffectpodcast.com
KETL Mtn Apparel Affiliate Link: https://ketlmtn.com/josh
Trail One Components: https://trailone.bike/josh
Smith’s Bike Shop – 130 Years of Excellence: www.smithsbikes.com
Contact Josh at evolutiontrails@gmail.com
This Podcast has been edited and produced by Evolution Trail Services