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Greg Mazu of Singletrack Trails (#51)

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Trail EAffect Episode 51 Greg Mazu – Single Track Trails

This episode first aired on December 28th, 2021 on Mountain Bike Radio

Topics Covered:

  • Greg Mazu Intro and Back Story
  • The early days of trail building for Greg
  • Starting Single Track Trails Inc
  • Growing Single Track Trails by branching out across the country
  • Trails and Projects that Stick out to Greg
  • Palisade Plunge Trail Back Story – 32-mile epic trail build
  • Trail Planning, the importance of this and thinking about how a trail plan is like a business plan
  • The Manifesto
  • Creating Mortgage Paying Jobs
  • Selling the fact that Trail Building is a real profession to the masses (for those unaware)
  • How trails provide value to communities
  • The importance of having a variety of trails within trail systems / trail communities
  • Vee Hollow and how Vee Hollow provides that variety of trails within one system
  • Handcut Trails / Handcut Hollow in Bentonville
  • Advantages of Hand Built Trails
  • What the Ideal Trail Community looks like according to Greg
    • The Garage is my Trail Head
  • Mountain Towns and Jobs
  • Famous Failure(s)
  • Gregs Multiple Businesses
    • Desert Rat Tours
  • Tools for Trails
  • Backslope Tools
  • Recreation Fabrication – New for 2022
  • Redesigning the Mcleod
  • Supply Chain Issues for Trail Building Tools
  • Closing Comments

    • Links:

    Single Track Trails: https://www.singletracktrails.com/

    Backslope Tools: https://www.backslope.tools/

    Tools for Trails: https://toolsfortrails.com/

    Desert Rat Tours: https://www.desertrattours.com/home

     

    Support for Trail EAffect Comes from Smith’s Bike Shop in La Crosse, WI https://smithsbikes.com/

    This show has been edited and produced by Evolution Trail Services, for more information go to:

    Evolution Trail Services: www.evotrails.com

    Contact Josh at [email protected]

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