The Trail Worker’s Essential Reading List
Tent time in the backcountry means lots of time for reading, and backcountry trail workers are voracious readers. What books are on their reading lists?
Maddi Bacon: Illustrating Impact
I wanted desperately to do work that would really make an impact in a real and tangible way. And trail work gave that to me. It felt immensely impactful. All of the sudden, I had interesting things to make art about again.
Victoria Vandervort: Between a Crosscut and a Log
“I feel like the outdoors is the only place I can get a hundred percent silence, and I feel like that's when I can actually think. Sometimes I have phrases that just get repeated in my head when I'm banging up a trail six miles trying to find the next log to cut. I think about that phrase and then somehow a piece of art will come to mind.”
David Linares: Work Dogs Work!
“I was inspired to base my works off of the struggles that come physically with working; as well as making the effort to capture those euphoric moments that come with realizing the lands for which you work.”