Trail Inventory in the Ghost FLUZ - June 14/15

[Spinalguy]

Thanks for your interest in helping do Trail Inventory in the Ghost FLUZ.

***** TRAINING DATES - JUNE 14, 15 *****
The location will be on-site in the Ghost FLUZ.  Saturday will be at one of the Group Camps, exact camp to be confirmed after registration closes.  Sunday will be field work between points 45 and 49 on the Ghost FLUZ map, right near the South Ghost stagging area.
You are welcome to camp out at the designated Group camp on Friday and Saturday night, or commute each day.

***** ACTION REQUIRED *****
PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE.
Send an e-mail to Peter Straub at [email protected] confirming your attendance.

***** REGISTRATION DEADLINE - MAY 19 *****
May Long Weekend. We need some time to plan logistics, and this will be driven by the number of people planning to attend.  Please let us know by the end of May long, May 19, if you are able to come.

Please note, as there has been some confusion...
Trail Inventory is NOT riding the existing or old trails, and inventorying those trails. 
Trail Inventory IS walking the terrain, often through virgin territory, surveying the landscape, documenting what is on the ground, and taking pictures and GPS points of where a new trail will one day be located.
If you expect Trail inventory to be a day on the trails, then you will be disappointed.  This is more like surveying and environmental trail design than a day on the trails.  I am not trying to dissuade anyone, rather, ensure that your expectations are in alignment with what this activity really means. Please consider this before coming out for the weekend. 

Questions?  Send me an e-mail: [email protected]

On behalf of the Ghost Stewardship Monitoring Group, and the Trails Sub-committee, I am thankful for your offer to help us, and look forward to meeting you all in June!

[01sahara]

I am signed up for this.

I handed out copies, a few meetings  back, of the survey that Peter was using to get an inventory the skill sets for building trails in the 4x4 community. I know I also e-mailed copies to a few of the executive as well, as a reminder.  It was completing the survey that got you on the list to go for this training. Who else in the club submitted a copy of the survey and is going on for the training to develop new trails? Tom is right this is important who filled it out?  Who else is going?

[01sahara]

Bump.

This invaluable training is less than two weeks away. I am attending. Who else is going. If you want to attend and have not been receiving emails  you should talk Peter Straub ASAP.  [email protected]

If you are going please post. 

Thanks
Blair

[SwampSinger]

Thanks Blair...

[SmilinVamp]

I am a goin'...

...the deadline to sign up was May 19th... not sure if they are accepting any more apps... but I guess one could ask...

[01sahara]

Thanks for your interest in helping do Trail Inventory in the Ghost FLUZ.

***** TRAINING DATES - JUNE 14, 15 *****
The location will be on-site in the Ghost FLUZ.  Saturday will be at one of the Group Camps, exact camp to be confirmed after registration closes.  Sunday will be field work between points 45 and 49 on the Ghost FLUZ map, right near the South Ghost stagging area.
You are welcome to camp out at the designated Group camp on Friday and Saturday night, or commute each day.

***** ACTION REQUIRED *****
PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE.
Send an e-mail to Peter Straub at [email protected] confirming your attendance.

***** REGISTRATION DEADLINE - MAY 19 *****
May Long Weekend. We need some time to plan logistics, and this will be driven by the number of people planning to attend.  Please let us know by the end of May long, May 19, if you are able to come.

Please note, as there has been some confusion...
Trail Inventory is NOT riding the existing or old trails, and inventorying those trails. 
Trail Inventory IS walking the terrain, often through virgin territory, surveying the landscape, documenting what is on the ground, and taking pictures and GPS points of where a new trail will one day be located.
If you expect Trail inventory to be a day on the trails, then you will be disappointed.  This is more like surveying and environmental trail design than a day on the trails.  I am not trying to dissuade anyone, rather, ensure that your expectations are in alignment with what this activity really means. Please consider this before coming out for the weekend. 

Questions?  Send me an e-mail: [email protected]

On behalf of the Ghost Stewardship Monitoring Group, and the Trails Sub-committee, I am thankful for your offer to help us, and look forward to meeting you all in June!

This was a great course and full of interesting knowledge. More of you should have taken the time to attend.  It was a very worth while two days and opens your eyes to ways our sport currently has a negative impact on the environment but even more important it showed you ways that, with lots of hard work, we could solve thouse problems and leave a much smaller footprint on the environment.

Lets face facts, Environmetal Protection wins in the public eye when you compare them to the needs of recreational user.  We need to rebuild and modify our trail network if we want it to be sustainable. We don't want boring trails we want a variety of exciting, challenging and fun trail opportunities for all skill levels, that are designed to minimize the impact of our use of the trails on the environment and we need them to be sustainable.  To change this we need to look at where the trails are, what impacts they have, can it be fixed, or do we need a new better designed trail to replace it?  In many cases the answer may be the second one. So we may have to build lots of new trails but if we do it right they will be better trails with lots of challenges.

The bottom line is get off your arse and get involved in building new trails or sell your rig cause you won't like the outcome in a few years.   Yes, we may still be wheeling in 10 years and in 20 years+ if we fix the trail system. I don't mean maintenance , I mean the design of the system and that will take lots of work cutting new trails and reclamation work on the old ones. It will take an effort of most of the wheeling community to make that happen.

[SmilinVamp]

Agreed... I would like to add that this seems to be the only way to "get back" trails, and presents opportunity to build the future ones.

The planning you do here and now WILL be the trails your children will be using in the future....