Four Chilean National Parks trail workers from Parque Nacional Alerce Costero attended training in California through the auspices of their sister park agreement with Redwood National Park, building upon a second year of exchange between Chilean trail workers and NPS managers.
While Chile is narrower than California, and over 50 percent larger in area, a great diversity in landforms causes many similar trail problems as experienced in California. Combining intensive hands on experience and instruction the participants covered topics such as: sustainable trail philosophy, theory, design, hydrology, GPS/GIS, data management, budgeting, and regulatory considerations. They concluded the weeklong course with three days of on the grade, trail work building and repairing trails in the Monterey District.
