Welcome to Trail Crew Stories.

A project to document the culture, techniques, and history of trail work.

People

People
Places

Places
Methods

Methods
Art + Essays

Art + Essays

  • “The laying of a trail…becomes not only a pleasure in itself, but an inducement to plan a better way of life, to construct worthwhile things, or to weave a better product in the loom of our being.”

    Earle Amos Brooks, A Handbook of the Outdoors (1925)

“The hardest thing in the morning is getting up and doing it. As soon as you get that done, everything else is kind of easy. That was my biggest problem, especially before I joined the military, I never had discipline. I couldn't do anything th
A while back, I shared this monumental stone project by CA State Parks and the CCC at El Capitán State Park. Here's another update!  CCC Lead John Lugo recently shared with me some of these images after the handrail was added. This thing
“I just wanted to get out of California. I grew up in southern California, I moved up to Humboldt county, explored the Pacific Northwest –that was beautiful–, and then ended up in the Bay Area. And so I was like, you know what, ther