EDIT: I feel like an idiot. It’s boilerplate text pulled from a USFS standard.
Or did the Forest Service give this job to a sarcastic intern and nobody proofread it?
Clearly not AI. Here’s where you can find the trail types, OP, including “standard terra trail”. As @[email protected] notes, it’s used to distinguish from things like snow trails.
And here’s where you can find, centralized, that verbatim definition. It’s pulling from a prebaked list of definitions as @[email protected] suggests.
a. Standard Terra Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of the ground and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.
b. Snow Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of snow or ice and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.
c. Water Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of water (but may include land-based portages) and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.
That’s a reasonable way to express it when other options are “predominantly not the ground”.
You’re not an idiot. It’s impossible to tell the difference between a robot and a bureaucrat.
My immediate question is precisely what constitutes the remainder. That seems like important information.
Small bits of air and sea may be found mixed in
I hear that area is so bad dihydrogen monoxide pours into the ground from the sky on a regular basis.
Typically stairs, ramps, bridges, boardwalks, or other elevated improvements. might cross a seasonal riverbed.
Herewithin described as “ground (not)” for the purposes of walking, jogging, running, sprinting, cardiovascular exercises, herewithin described as “activities”
It could have sections with added gravel, bridges, and walkways.
Given the structure I wonder if the phrasing is a default and it pulls from a database for the surface material.
Maybe it means as opposed to constructed or paved walkways
It’s to distinguish from snow or water. It’s pulled from a Forest Service publication. I’m less sure it’s a super useful datapoint to expose on whatever site this is.
Good catch. Years of reading trail descriptions and I never noticed that before. I pulled up some other USFS trail pages and they have the same text.
geez people are already having AI psychosis, are we also going to have anti-AI psychosis now?
I’m not entirely sure but I’m pretty sure the ground is made of ground
Only the trails a T-800 has visited.
