num_pages: 248
description: This is the definitive handbook on trail work, from landscape values to the nitty-gritty of moving rock. Don’t forget to pair this with the key supplement, A.T. Maintenance and Rehabilitation Guidelines for Volunteers .From the back Here are eight decades of experience gathered by the citizen-volunteers who help design, build and maintain the world-famous Appalachian Trail. How can a two-thousand-mile footpath through a fourteen-state area with a population of more than eighty million people, that attracts more than three million visitors each year, still manage to provide a primitive hiking and camping experience? By the art and science of "wearing lightly on the land."
language: English
title: Appalachian Trail Design, Construction, and Maintenance
titlecomplete: Appalachian Trail Design, Construction, and Maintenance
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Appalachian Trail Conservancy