Great point about the funding from the AZT Association. I was actually not aware that that organization provided grants for trail building. Fortunately or unfortunately, in the end it’s another situation where it’s easy to ‘follow the money trail’ to see which trails are getting worked on. Again, not saying that the AZT isn’t a worthy trail (as I mentioned in my last post, I love the long trail concept), but I wonder what additional grants are available for more techincal singletrack. There have to be some out there.

Thank you for catching that. I am not sure where all the funding came from, but the funding from the horse people is what allowed for the completion of Little Bear. Brian P. did most of the work (I sure admire his beautiful rock work on the lower switchbacks) and also supervised the convict work crew. If you want to know the exact details on funding, ask Brian. As you stated, a lot of people put in volunteer hours to complete the trail. The section that had to be dynamited took a lot of man hours. Thank you for your contribution.

My point in my initial comment was that when the AZ Trail Association provides grant money the AZ Trail gets the attention. I included Little Bear because the trail meets multi-use guidelines and still seems to be a popular trail to ride in Flagstaff. I just wanted to clarify that it wasn’t funded by the ATA.