trail crews
Backcountry path builders
Trail crews are groups of workers who build and maintain hiking trails, typically in parks, forests, and wilderness areas.
The work involves clearing brush, installing drainage, constructing bridges, and repairing erosion damage.
Trail crews may be professional staff, seasonal employees, or volunteers: She spent her summer on a trail crew in the Sierras.
The term often evokes rugged outdoor labor and conservation work.
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- work partyOrganized group performing labor
- maintenancePreserving working condition
- hikingRecreational trail walking
- backcountrySparsely populated wilderness areas
switchbacks · chainsaws · crosscut saw · pickaxes · wilderness · national forest · rangers · trailblazers · brushing · grading · conservation · sawyers · hand tools · rockwork · blazing · clearing · tread · lopping
- volunteer rolescamp counselor, camp counselors, peer tutor, mentor, event staff
- trail maintenanceerosion control, brush clearing, rerouting, blazing, blazes
- Volunteeringvolunteer, volunteering, volunteer hours, unpaid work, volunteer coordinators
- volunteer forcesvolunteer army, volunteer corps, civilian volunteers, citizen soldiers, auxiliaries
trail crewsday hikers
People taking short outdoor walks
hikers · backpackers · mountain bikers · trail runners · horseback riders
trail crewsweekend warriors
Recreational athletes, only occasionally
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