“How about adding water trails?”
That was a suggestion I just received from Archie in South Carolina regarding the trailsnet website.
And it’s an excellent point. When I first began compiling information for the trailsnet website, my intention was to include every possible type of trail. So I collected information about mountain bike trails, rail trails, backpacking trails, and water trails. In fact, I still have files full of information about water trails all over the United States and a few international ones as well.
But alas, once I actually built the trailsnet website, it became overwhelming, so I decided to focus on multipurpose trails that were bike accessible and able to be used by people of all ages and abilities. I felt I could do more justice to the site and site visitors by having more of a focus.
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My dad relaxes in his kayak on
the beautiful waters of Middle
Thompson Lake in NW Montana. |
However, the trails network blog is much more diverse and includes other types of trails. Which brings me back to Archie’s suggestion: What about water trails?
I would love to include information about water trails. Some of my most enjoyable trail trips have included kayaking on the chain of lakes in northwestern Montana or canoeing on the Powell River lakes up in Canada. For at least a couple more years, I will continue focusing on bike/multipurpose trails on the website, but I will definitely begin sharing more information about water trails on the trails network blog.
So let me start by sharing this website for the Berkeley County Blueways in South Carolina. It looks like a great water trail system. Since I haven’t yet featured any South Carolina trails on trailsnet, I’m hoping maybe I can check out the B.C. Blueways when I visit S.C.
Thanks for the suggestion, Archie!!
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Just a couple days ago trailsnet announced its nomination for the “
Stylish Blogger Award.”
Today, American Trails announced that trailsnet won the award for the best “Personal Site” (relating to trails) on the internet.
No, these awards don’t involve red carpets, acceptance speeches, or limo rides. But they’re pretty darned special nonetheless.
It is especially gratifying to win an award from American Trails because it is such an important and influential organization.
So now both the trailsnet blog and trailsnet website have won awards. But much more important than that, trails are starting to become more and more important in American society, so people are starting to visit trail-related sites to get information about hiking, equestrian, running, inline skating, Trikking, and biking trails. In the long run, this will be very good for our country as people start to get in better shape and to rely less on automobiles.
So many thanks to American Trails for this latest award. Trailsnet will keep producing an awesome trail website that is useful for active travelers and hometown trail users alike.
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In addition to bikes, I enjoy our great trails as a hiker, inline skater, equestrian, and runner. Within the past year, I have also begun riding a Trikke on some of my trail travels. Not only is the Trikke a lot of fun, but it’s also a great, full-body workout. The images below show some of the muscle groups used when riding/maneuvering a Trikke. As you can see, a person doesn’t have spend all day cooped up in a boring weight room to get in shape. A half hour on the trail gives a nice upper and lower body workout in addition to aerobic fitness.
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Bike trails are awesome and travel is one of the world’s most popular pastimes. More and more people are beginning to combine their passions of bike riding and travel into the growing market of active travel.
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Where in the world can you find
the best bike trails? |
After all, what’s not to love about:
- staying fit
- exploring uncrowded countrysides
- being environmentally responsible
- staying safe
- meeting locals and fellow travelers
- seeing unique places that are less traveled
- getting to know the true flavor of a country
- saving money
These are all benefits of traveling via bicycle on the trail networks of various countries.
So now it’s your chance to vote on which country you think has the best bicycle trails in our monthly trailsnet poll found at the top of the left hand margin in this blog. If you’re undecided, that’s okay; you can choose more than one. If you don’t see the country of your choice, feel free to tick (as our friends in England would say) the box next to “other” and then leave a comment with the name of your favorite bike trail country.
In fact, no matter what country you choose, we’d love to hear why you think it’s the best bike trail country. Leave a comment explaining your choice. Heck, you may win some converts to the bike trail country of your choice.
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Woohoo!!
Trailsnet has just been nominated for its second award. (Last year trailsnet received an award on the American Trails website.)
I am pleased and proud to say that Australian blogger KirstyGirl7, the recent recipient of the Stylish Blogger award, nominated trailsnet & seven other blogs to receive the torch she has passed along.
Kirsty is definitely a stylish blogger, and it would be a great honor to follow in her footsteps.
I’ll keep you posted as to how the contest develops.
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