Instructors Kristin Butcher and Ryan Schutz covered topics including sustainable trail design, basic construction of new trails, turns, drainages, bridges, reroutes and reclamation. They also covered how we could make better use of rocks to protect sensitive areas and mark our trails to make them more enjoyable and useful for everyone.

Our hands-on project was to do a complete reroute of a Green Hills Trail section that was too steep and didn't handle water very well. It wasn't a problem yet, but would have been once more riders started making an impact. Part of our challenge was to turn this hillside into a section of trail that looks like it's been there for years.

This crib wall had to be built in order to get the trail past a tree that caused a narrow section. The new wall offers excellent support for the new trail edge and offers good drainage to control erosion. Moss and other plants were placed so that you would never know this is a new wall.