trail sustainability institute

Canceled // TSI Trail School @ Stub Stewart State Park – 3/5

Due to snow still on the trails, Trail School at Stub has been canceled this weekend. We’ll reschedule. NWTA’s Trail Sustainability Institute will be hosting Trail School at Stub Stewart State Park. Trail School teaches the fundamental skills needed to maintain our trails. Participants will be learning safety techniques and tool identification/uses, as well as … Read More

TSI Benching Clinic Recap

Written by Chloe Hammond-Bradley The Trail Sustainability Institute (TSI) held their first benching clinic this last Saturday. This clinic focused on how to cut in as well as re-establish a bench on a trail. When building and maintaining a trail, you focus on four areas; your line, flow, bench cuts and drainage. Bench cuts, or … Read More

Klootchy Creek Trail School Recap

Written by Nancy Stone, Education & Sustainability Director ([email protected]) The Trail Sustainability Institute (TSI) headed west to visit our friends and trails at Klootchy Creek this Saturday. It may come as no surprise that our 15 volunteers and 4 instructors were greeted with a downpour of rain and gusts of wind. Such is life on the … Read More

TSI Trail School at Klootchy Creek – 1/21

NWTA’s Trail Sustainability Institute will be hosting Trail School at Klootchy Creek. REGISTER HERE. Trail School teaches the fundamental skills needed to maintain our trails. Participants will be learning safety techniques and tool identification/uses, as well as hands-on training of corridor clearing, drainage, tread repair and benchwork. Northwest Trail Alliance’s Trail Sustainability Institute’s goal is … Read More