Best Day Ever | Building A More Inclusive Trail Community With Berne Broudy And Greg Durso

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Best Day Ever | Building a More Inclusive Trail Community with Berne Broudy and Greg Durso | 201

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For episode 201 we have Berne Broudy and Greg Durso. Berne is an outdoor journalist, storyteller, and happens to be the president of Richmond Mountain Trails a Non-Profit Trail Organization. Greg is an adaptive athlete and senior program director for the Kelly Brush Foundation. Together Berne and Greg helped to create the new film titled “Best Day Ever” a film about adaptive mountain biking, trail building and what it looks like when inclusion is part of the trail building process from the beginning.

Topics Include:

The purpose and backstory behind the Best Day Ever movie
Breaking ground on the Driving Range Trail System – Vermont’s first fully adaptive trail system.
- Challenges with building the Driving Range Trail System
Some of the characteristics of an Adaptive Trail
The intentionality of making the Driving Range sessionable, progressive and diverse in terms of trail experiences for all riders (and this system is mostly Blue, Black and Double Black).
Greg participating in and getting other adaptive riders into the Fox U.S. Open downhill race at Killington, VT
- How DH Tracks lend themselves to being great for adaptive riders.
Different types of Adaptive Mountain Bikes
The Kelly Brush Foundation – Kingdom Trails – and Adaptive Mountain Bike Camps
Expanding on what the Kelly Brush Foundation does
What Berne learned through creating this movie “Best Day Ever”
What Greg learned through filming the movie “Best Day Ever”
Screenings of the movie “Best Day Ever” which you can do now!
American Trails: Advancing Trails Webinar: A Guide to Adaptive Mountain Bike Trail Building
What Berne looks for in a Mountain Bike Community
What Greg looks for in a Mountain Bike Community
What Greg thinks the future of adaptive trails looks like
Closing Comments

Trail EAffect Show Links:

Best Day Ever Movie: https://www.bestdayever.mov/

The Driving Range Trail System: https://www.richmondmountaintrails.org/the-driving-range

Richmond Mountain Trails: https://www.richmondmountaintrails.org/

How to donate to the film (w/ a $25k Matching Grant): https://www.bestdayever.mov/impact

Heartland Film Festival: https://www.heartlandfilm.org/festival

The Kelly Brush Foundation: https://kellybrushfoundation.org/

American Trails Webinar: A Guide to Adaptive Mountain Bike Trail Building (10/30/2025): https://www.americantrails.org/training/a-guide-to-adaptive-mountain-bike-trailbuilding

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