The site of a trail work day. Not a bad place to volunteer! |
MTC's Seth Swanson and Missoula Conservation Lands Manager Morgan Valliant devising a plan. |
On another run you’re chatting with some friends. The miles fly by and ideas are shared: a Montana Trail Running website meant to celebrate this amazing home of ours, a film festival to bring the community together, trail work projects, and more.
Montana Trail Crew is a product of ideas; a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating trail running here in Montana. But we’re also a conservation organization whose mission is to advocate for trails and public lands. The connection is fundamental, trail running and trails go hand in hand.
Trail running is a place-based experience and as a community we hope to to be effective stewards of our trails and do our part to maintain them through trail work projects. There are a number of reason why:
- We feel it is important to leave the trails in better shape than we found them.
- Montana has a lot of trails and not a lot of people to take care of them.
- Trail work builds community.
- Land managers--University, City, and National Forest--will recognize the work we do and hopefully take that into account the next time local groups ask to hold trail races on public lands
- The trails can be made a whole lot better.
Eroded trail attacked by leafy spurge |
A high traffic walked-in trail that was never actually built |
North Hills triple-track. |
MTC works closely with the City of Missoula to address the city's trail needs, primarily in the North Hills. With this arrangement, MTC takes ownership of the maintenance and care of trails that see heavy foot traffic year round. This is a great opportunity for us, as trail runners, to give back to the trails we love and utilize.
If you're interested in helping out, sign up on our email list.
If you're interested in helping out, sign up on our email list.
We invite you to join us as trail stewards. We'd love for you to become part of Montana Trail Crew and help us make our amazing Montana trails even better.
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