Tagtrail

cherry-stem

cherry-stem v. to extend a spur of unprotected non-wilderness land, especially a dead-end road or trail, through a protected wilderness area. Also as a noun and as the form cherrystem. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

bootleg trail

bootleg trail n. a walking path or track worn into the ground by habitual human passage rather than by design. Editorial Note: During Prohibition, the network of people and places that illegally supplied Americans with alcohol was sometimes referred...

bootleg trail

bootleg trail  n.— «If you must camp on undisturbed ground, do what you can to limit soil compaction, the formation of bootleg trails, and the trampling of plants.» —by Robert C. Birkby Lightly on the Land: The Sca Trail-Building...

bootleg trail

bootleg trail  n.— «Master Naturalists also spend a lot of time using brush, logs and leaves to obscure what rangers like Mullins refer to as “bootleg trails,” unplanned, unsanctioned paths that have emerged in the mountainside due to the...

bikewhack

bikewhack  v.— «The trail we proceeded down was overgrown and required us to hike-a-bike / bikewhack a bit. This section made me think of a similar trail in a race.» —“Eco-Challenge North American Championships” by John...

bike-whack

bike-whack  v.— «We chose to take a gamble and take an old logging road deep into the forest, then bushwhack up the steep hillside to reach the Parkway.…After about a mile and a half uphill walk/ride up past a cemetery, we entered...