The Biddi Pod: A Small Trailer Powering Community Spirit
How a simple, mobile trailer became a piece of critical trail infrastructure, improving safety, rideability, sustainability and powering community volunteering on a world-class trail.
Therese Logue, Executive Officer, Munda Biddi Trail Foundation
Indigenous Challenges to Taiwan’s Mountaineering Culture: Translating a Bunun Archive to Re-Story Taiwan’s Hiking Trails
This presentation highlights how an Indigenous archive of literature and other mixed media is being translated to counter dominant narratives of “no man’s land,” by re-storying mountain hiking trails with place-based narratives of Indigenous custodianship.
Dana Powell, Associate Professor, Taipei Medical University
Panay Kumod, PhD Student Indigenous Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Ying-tzu Ena Chang, Assistant Professor, College of Education, National Dong Hwa University
Zero-Investment to Zero-Carbon Footprint Trails: Transforming Trails in the Himalayas
The presentation will include ideas on how trail walking can lead to both hikers and host communities becoming stakeholders in conservation. It will narrate the story of how a group of people with no resources mapped and documented trails, began walking and transformed tourism in remote Himalayas.
Lokesh Ohri, Chairperson, Humanities Himalaya
Unlocking the Full Potential of Mature Trails
As trail networks mature, the challenge shifts from building trails to generating demand and broadening appeal without increasing pressure on land or communities. This session explores how Trails WA and the wider sector are creating relevant, purpose-led trail experiences to reach new audiences.
Agata Sleeman, Chief Executive Officer, Trails WA
