Real Trail Assessment: Seeing the Trail Through the Eyes of a Professional

Please note you must be registered for the ITS 2023 conference to attend this workshop.

Cost: $250

Description: This workshop features on the trail education focused on the basics of trail assessment including erosion and user-created problems. The workshop will include reading grades with a clinometer and applying an understanding of slope and trail grade to trail assessment. The group will identify and discuss the right and wrong segments of trail as well as possible solutions to perceived problems. The discussion will include strategies for water management, user management, and re-routes.

Learning Objectives:

• Reading trail and landscape grades and understanding the relationship between those grades, water movement, and trail durability.
• Understanding the causes and symptoms of sustainability challenges related to trail use, maintenance, and management.
• Understanding nuances of sustainable trail design
• Evaluate solutions to trail problems

Instructor: Mike Riter, Trail Design Specialists

Location

International Trails Summit (ITS)

Location TBD
Reno/Tahoe Area, Nevada

Trail Core Competencies

• Trail Maintenance
• • Inventory & Assessment

Relevant Trail Types

General. All trail types are relevant.