scout the area on foot, and hopefully you can create a vision...
using topographical mapping is optional, but I prefer it. Either before or after you do actual on the ground scouting.
Once you have a vision, walk your path with neon flagging tape and mark where you see the trail going. Flagging tape is a great non intrusive way to mark the trail
Once you are confident in the path you have chosen, cut away Vegetation and create a complete, featureless, bermless, functional path.
once the path has been cut, work the ground with the various methods until the trail is ready for tires.
Ride the functional path and see how it flows and start placing the berms and features accordingly
And take the rest from there 😉
its a layered process for me,
scout, functional path, pimp it out with berms and features last.
When you try to build a trail feature by feature a lot of times it takes forever and features get put in the wrong places and shit doesn’t flow right
Good luck. And hit me up I’m always down to put a trail in if the terrain is good
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Where to start w/ trail building?
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