Greg Mazu of Singletrack Trails (#51)

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

 

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

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