Greg Mazu of Singletrack Trails on Trail Maintenance and other stuff (#78)

Trail EAffect Episode 78 with Greg Mazu talking Trail Maintenance and other stuff

• Catching up with Greg and his travels so far in 2022
  • Euro Trip
  • IMBA Europe
• 2022 PTBA Conference in Bentonville
• Trail Building – Building the next Hometown vs Next Destination
• Directional Trails
• Trail Maintenance
  • Do you maintain a trail for your current skill level or how that trail was originally built
• Trail User Technology has advanced, which allows more distance covered (Hiking, Running, and Riding)
• How Maintenance from a cultural perspective generally speaking maintenance goes largely ignored
• How to potentially include maintenance into new build contracts or education into new build contracts
• Improvements within the Trail Building industry that has helped reduce the level of maintenance
• E-Bikes and Trails
• Back into the Pay to Play model
• Funding for Trails and Maintenance
  • Various states and how they fund their non-motorized trails
  • Ideas for various ways to capture trail use donations
• The Future of Mountain Biking is not the Bike, but rather the trails (Adam, owner of Revel Bikes)
• Not having cool trails where you live makes you want to travel places
• Quality vs Quantity of Trails / Directional Trails
• Maintenance is the Future of the Trail Building Industry
• Trail Maintenance on TicToc?
• A panel of people to discuss the top 5 trail systems in the county with Tequila…
• Closing Comments

Links discussed in the show:

Singletrack Trails: https://www.singletracktrails.com/

Tools for Trails: https://toolsfortrails.com/

Backslope Tools: https://www.backslope.tools/

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