Trails are complicated things.
It doesn’t always take the easiest route and sometimes isn’t clear, dwindling into a wash and then sneaking out to the lowlands and zigzagging erratically up a steep slope.
For trail builders, forging a path with flow is everything. The way a trail bobs and weaves around trees and rocks should be effortless. It should curve to hide what is coming, making the hiker want to turn one more corner to see what is next. And it should shed water off its banks, not hold it in, so it stays smooth, not rutted and washed away.
A good path, trail builders say, should go unnoticed. At the end of the journey, the hiker should be smiling and ready to do it all over again.
Arizona Rim Country trail builders know if they develop trails to which people want to return, they can help revitalize an economy so dependent on recreation users.
Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona (VOAz) have done work on the eastern flank of the Highline, a trail originally built by settlers to connect ranches. The Highline travels east some 50 miles to the 260 Trailhead, clinging to the base of the Mogollon Rim.
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