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)

“I think my proudest moment in trails would probably have to be getting into trails in the first place. That would be in 2022. It's been a couple years now, but I got accepted into the Backcountry Trails Program through the California Conservat
Let's talk boots! Seasonal trail workers nationwide are gearing up for a new season, oiling up boots and maybe buying new ones. What are your favorite boots for trail work? Do you wear logger boots? Steel toes? Approach shoes? Fire boots? Rubberize
We kill things to make trails. Plants, trees, fungus, occasionally insects and small critters caught in the crossfire. But the whole concept of trailwork is based on the idea of destroying a little to save a lot. Trails are sacrificial corridors that
Gabino Lopez (@gaaaa.bino ) is once again in Mallorca studying dry stone masonry techniques under master waller Lluc Mir and has been sending me photos that are nothing short of rockwork porn. Gabino has visited Mallorca several times to practice t