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Trailsnet has been nominated once again for a blog award. This time, we have been chosen as one of the top 100 Camping Blogs and are eligible to win the #1 Camping Blog award.
This is an especially big honor for us since our main focus is on trails and camping is just one portion of our blog content. So a big thank you goes out to JustBackPacksOnline for nominating us for this award. We know the competition is stiff, but we also know that trailsnet is an awesome outdoor website/blog.
I would like to send a big thank you for those of you who are signed on to follow the trailsnet blog. I appreciate your support & following.
Like the good trail leaders that we are, we’ll try to keep you on track as we make the big switcheroo. Thanks for your patience and persistence.
I will soon be switching the trailsnet blogspot blog over to WordPress. I’m not quite sure whether your RSS Feed (followship) will be switched over with the big swap. If I had to make a guess, I would say not. In fact, I’m worried that quite a few things will have to change, whether I like it or not. But the change is a necessary one to keep (start) the blog and website running more smoothly since my website host works with WordPress but not Google (Blogspot/Blogger). The favor I would like to ask of you is to continue following trailsnet, even if it means signing on w/ the WordPress feed. I want to keep the loyal trailsnet followers as we move into this new era at trailsnet. There will be more information forthcoming. In fact, I’ve already written a WordPress blog entry explaining the 3-step process of transforming trailsnet.com. As always, your comments about this issue are welcomed below.
Those wonderful outdoor folks in Boulder, CO are at it again. The people at Boulder Mountain Bikes are creating an app called SmartTrails to help users locate & navigate bike trails. The app will not only help you find a trail but will provide updated trail conditions, trail descriptions, and trail ratings. There was a great story in the Boulder Daily Camera about the SmartTrails app. The developers are seeking a grant to help them get this worthwhile project off the ground. If you’d like to help them out and put them over the top, you can vote for their grant idea on the GOOD Boulder Fund website. It’s easy to vote, doesn’t cost you anything and helps support a good trail cause.
So far, the only problem I see w/ this app is that it’s not quite available for iphone yet; but according to BMA rep. Andria, they are on top of it. In fact, they “have an iOS developer working in parallel…” What I think that means to us non-techie folks is that they are soon going to have an [iphone] app for that.
Yes, government money should be used to build trails!!
100% of the people who responded to last month’s poll agreed that tax dollars should be used to pay for some or all of trail funding.
Hopefully Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is paying attention to our poll. Recently, he said he would refuse to support transportation funding if it included money for trails????
Our next poll is another yes or no answer: Have you ever hiked or biked on a National Scenic Trail?
Below is a list of our National Scenic Trails: (You can obtain a map of the National Trail System from the U.S Department of the Interior.)
