TRAIL CONSTRUCTION: 3+ Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:

• Safety and Job Hazard Analysis
• Required tools
• Trail Management Handbook – FSH 2309.18 and Trail Management Objectives (TMOs)
• Trail surveying, logs, design and layout
• Trail construction and specifications – EM 7720-102
• Water control – Rolling dips
• Switchbacks versus climbing turns
• Retaining walls – Surface hardening
• Trail publications