Friday, November 4, 2011 Participants are invited to attend a set up evening at Trail Camp starting after 4:30. This will be an interactive evening with ice breakers, pictures from trail days of yore and practice for the Saturday night show. Food will be the responsibility of each participant. This will be a way to be at Mockingee early for the Trail camp without a drive on Saturday morning. However, most of the camp events will take place Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Time

Presenter/s

Subject

10:00- 10:30

John Hawkins, HRTA Chair

Deliverables from the weekend

10:30- 11:30

Paul Euloth, HRM Regional Trails Coordinator

NSPACTS  Presentation to the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities

11:00 – 11:30

Peter Williams. East Wind Cycle

The Blue Route Concept  for Nova Scotia: Peter runs a bicycle touring business in Nova Scotia and he was instrumental in developing the concept for the blue route in Nova Scotia. Peter will have a pp presentation

11:30 – 12:00

David MacIsaac

Transportation Demand Management Program Supervisor

 

Update on Halifax Regional Municipality Active Transportation projects and plans.

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

 

1:00 – 1:30

Nora Dickson and Gabrielle Riley, HRM Active Living Coordinators

The Spring 2012 school tours  Raising the profile of Get Out Check it Out Brand

1:30 – 2:00

Carol Davis Jamieson, Central Rep for

Department of Health and Wellness

All HRTA groups who are applying for HRM funds are required to apply for the Recreation Facility Development Grant as well from Nova Scotia Health and Wellness. HRM trails staff and Carol are making a coordinated effort to get the information out to the HRTA groups early this year.

2:00 – 2:30

 

 

Laughie Rutt , HRM Diversity Consultant

 

 

 

Troy Nauffts

 

HRM Accessibility Advisory Committee

HRM Active Transportation Committee

Laughie has helped us ground truth most of our HRTA trails for wheel chair accessibility. We will be presenting some of these at the camp

Presentation Topics:  Staff training, web accessibility, tactile trail markers

Troy will be attending the trail camp for the whole weekend with his dog. During that time he will help us understand how to plan events and meetings to include the visually impaired. Troy is also  looking for  a trail host group for a pilot project about accessibility for outdoor recreational opportunities

2:30 – 2:45

BREAK

BREAK

2:40 -3:15

Jennifer MacIntyre

 

Atlantic Canada Trails Association

Join Jennifer MacIntyre, Vanda Jackson and Garnet McLaughlin as we share the Vision of the Atlantic Canada Trails Association (ACT), along with details of the trail assessment pilot project and the valuable market-readiness assessment tool that will eventually be shared with interested trail groups in Atlantic Canada

 

 

3:15- 3:45

Vanda Jackson

Garnet & Alexia McLaughlin

 

Meeting the 2017 TCT Deadline in Nova Scotia

 Join Vanda Jackson along with Garnet & Alexia McLaughlin for an update of the TCT Connection Strategy in Nova Scotia and the 2017 Connection Deadline.  We'll review NS Trails' commitment the Greenways Vision while balancing the community trail development model in Nova Scotia.  We'll highlight some of the opportunities and challenges in Nova Scotia and review the new funding guidelines and procedures.

 

3:45 – 5:30

Recreational Break

Geo caching and hiking

5:30 – 7:00

Supper /networking/clean up

HRTA Supper team will be in charge

7:00- 7:30

Trail staff

HRTA SWOT analysis: HRTA has been around as a trail association for a decade now. During this time, we will do a quick SWOT analysis. What are the STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES and THREATS for the future of the organization

 

 

 

7:30 – 8:30

Trail show

An opportunity for trail skits, trail talent, trail jokes, trail ice breakers, and trail fun

8:30 onward

An open air fire circle around the Mockingee Fire pit- weather permitting

This is a chance to integrate and discuss the sessions from the day and network with trail friends. If the weather is not suitable for an outside fire, there is an building with a wood stove.

 

Sunday, November 6- Morning

Time

Presenters

Topic

7:30 – 8:30

Trail camp breakfast

Trail camp breakfast crew

 

8:30- 9:00

Exercises

Catherine Klefenz will  capably put us through the paces

9:00 – 10:30

Trail staff

With the benefit of a power point asking questions about direction for the future based on

trail issues we know about and things we learned about from SaturdayÕs presenters,

participant will on their own paper copy of a survey questionnaire to mark their priorities for

 the direction for the future. 

10:30 -11:00

Garnet & Alexia Mc Laughlin

 Recruiting trail volunteers with Social media techniques  for trail improvement workshops

Bluff Trail has been successful in having new volunteers turn out to trail building workshops.

Find out how your group can have a workshop.

11:00- 11:30

Trail staff

Summary of the directions indicators from the 9:00 – 10:30 session

11:30 – 12:30

Clean up the camp

Our motto is to leave the camp better than we found it.