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MTB Trail Design + Build

Creating Joy On Two Wheels

A new way to design, classify, and market mountain bike terrain. World class crews building industry-leading masterpieces.

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Our Vision

Connecting The World Through Bikes

Wherever the most ambitious trails and festivals in mountain biking get built, we tend to be in the dirt. We work alongside the resorts, athletes, and builders moving the sport forward.

We build because trails bring people together. They connect us to a place, to each other, and to moments you don't forget. Every berm, every roller, every jump — sculpted with intention to put a grin on your face.

Our Craft

How We Build

There are no accidental great trails. Every one is earned.

A TrailCo builder kicking up dust shaping fresh trail at Wilden Bike Park
01 The Experience

Trail Experiences

Classified by feel, intent, and progression — not just fear and difficulty. Each tier matches an audience to the terrain they came to ride.

Easy Rider Coaster trail
01 Green · Gateway

Easy Rider Coaster

Smooth, scenic flow that welcomes first-timers and turns visitors into riders.

AudienceFamilies · First-timers
Progression Terrain trail
02 Blue · Progression

Progression Terrain

Optional lines, safe repetition, clear choice. Riders grow at their own pace.

AudienceSkill builders
Advanced black-grade trail with technical features
03 Black · Advanced

Advanced Terrain

Steep natural lines and engineered black flow. Big features, jump trails, technical reads.

AudienceAdvanced riders
Freestyle Terrain trail
04 Orange · Freestyle

Freestyle Terrain

Purpose-built jumps, big berms, airtime. The trail that builds culture.

AudienceProgressive riders
02 The Scope

Engagement Scope

Every project is scoped, priced, and sequenced to the terrain and your audience. Start with a conversation — we build to fit.

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Trail Grooming

Keep what's already great, actually great. Tread resets, drainage restoration, erosion control, seasonal refresh.

  • Tread reshape & debris clear
  • Drainage + erosion management
  • Season-opening & closing passes
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Grooming Plus

Grooming with an upgrade. Feature additions, selective re-routes, and flow tuning to elevate the trail beyond its original build.

  • New features, berms, rollers
  • Line re-reads & selective re-routes
  • Flow & sightline optimisation
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New Trail Construction

From survey to ride-ready. World-class design, engineered terrain, signature features — a trail that earns its name.

  • Survey, design & classification
  • Earthworks, features & finish
  • Network strategy & phasing
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03 The Method

Build Method

A trail isn't poured. It's read, shaped, compacted, and ridden. Four stages separate a builder from a landscaper.

  1. 01 — Stage One
    Survey stage — walking the land

    Survey

    We walk the land. Contour, soil, drainage, fall line, sightlines, sun — terrain reads first, ideas second.

    Tools Boots · clinometer · time
  2. 02 — Stage Two
    Shape stage — corridor cut and berms drafted

    Shape

    Machine work and hand work in rhythm. Corridor cut, bench formed, berms drafted, rollers set, features shaped with intent.

    Tools Mini-ex · McLeod · rake
  3. 03 — Stage Three
    Compact stage — packer working the trail surface

    Compact

    Layer by layer. Moisture managed, tread densified, drainage tested. What compacts well rides well for years.

    Tools Plate packer · water · patience
  4. 04 — Stage Four
    Ride stage — tune, fix, polish

    Ride

    We ride it. Then we ride it again. We tune, fix, polish. We don't hand over a trail until it rides how we pictured it.

    Tools A bike · a stopwatch · honesty
Recent Work

Featured Projects

Reed Boggs sending at Red Bull Rampage - Photo: Sterling Lorence
Chapter 01 Utah, USA

Red Bull Rampage

10 Years Building Award-Winning Lines
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Photo · Sterling Lorence
The Story

2025 marked Alan Mandel's 10th year as an award-winning Rampage builder. Along with Trail Co contributor Liam Wallace, they crafted another amazing line for Reed Boggs — allowing him to safely send his vision of what freeride means down the Utah canyon.

0Years At Rampage
0Latest Season
0Best Digger Award
Rampage Digger Award presentation
Revelstoke Trail 5620 dust flying - Photo: Hywel Williams
Chapter 02 Revelstoke, BC

Revelstoke Mountain Resort

Trail 5620 — Hickory Rebuild
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Photo · Hywel Williams
The Story

A complete rebuild of the Hickory midsection of Trail 5620. Supportive berms, predictable rollers, cleaner sightlines, and improved drainage — creating one big, continuous rhythm section. Accessible and super fun, with enough speed and line choice to keep advanced riders stoked.

0Trail 5620 Length
0Vertical Descent
HickoryMidsection Rebuild
Riders hitting berms on Trail 5620 at Revelstoke
Trail 5620 Hickory section
Chapter 03 Kelowna, BC

Wilden Bike Park

A Community Trail Network For The Okanagan
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Wilden Flow · Live
The Story

Wilden's vision is the Okanagan's best community trail network — neighbourhood pockets connected by world-class mountain bike and hiking trails. TrailCo first walked the land in 2023. In 2026 we kicked off Phase One: three machine-built trails — a climb with bermed corners that ride beautifully on ebikes, a progressive blue flow, and a family-friendly green coaster — plus a full pump track and a mini pump track for kids on strider bikes.

0First Toured The Land
0Phase One Trails
0Pump Tracks Built

Phase One is the spark — future phases extend the network across the hillside.

Fresh blue trail berms through the Wilden forest
Rider manualing over a fresh feature with a second rider behind
Todo O Nada Chile freeride
Chapter 04 Paine, Chile

Todo O Nada

Latin America's Iconic Freeride Festival
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The Story

Founded by Alan Mandel, Todo O Nada was born to create a bridge between Latin America and the global freeride industry. In just three years it became part of the legendary Fest Series — the first ever stop in Latin America.

0Organic Views 2025
0Fans on Public Day
0Years Running

MTB, BMX, Moto, Trophy Truck, live music, and the Bikes for Kids program — giving back to the community by investing in the future of the sport.

Todo O Nada riders
Todo O Nada spectators
Rider whipping through the air with the Sacred Valley below in Peru
Chapter 05 Sacred Valley, Peru

Sacred Valley

Peru's First Purpose-Built Flow Trail
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The Story

High in the Sacred Valley, we delivered Peru's first ever purpose-built flow trail using modern trail design. Alan led two trail-building workshops with the local community, designed the alignment, and physically marked the line through the terrain. Together we built 600 meters of finished trail — with the community now continuing the next 1.5 km by hand to connect it into one complete ride.

0Built With The Crew
0Community Workshops
1.5 kmContinuing By Hand

A first for Peru — modern flow design dropped into legendary Andean terrain, handed off to a community that's now carrying it the rest of the way.

Alan shaping the new trail with the Sacred Valley behind him
Local community members digging the new trail at golden hour
Rider sending a J-Line jump with the Wyoming high desert valleys stretching behind
Chapter 06 Lander, Wyoming

J-Line

Lander's First Machine-Built Flow Trail
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The Story

A one-of-a-kind build in Alan's hometown. A hand-cut climbing trail to the top, then a descent layered with three distinct chapters: tech, flow, and jumps. The first trail of its kind on public BLM land in the region, delivered with Fremont County BLM and Wyoming Pathways.

1stOn Public BLM Land
3 StylesTech · Flow · Jumps
ClimbHand‑Cut To The Top

Named for the trail network — named for the jumps — and built in honor of Joe McGowen, the friend who first put Alan on a bike.

Rider threading a rocky tech section on J-Line
Rider carving a J-Line flow corner with dust trailing
What Clients Say
The People

Meet The Crew

The builders, diggers, and riders who shape every trail we hand over.

Alan Mandel
01Founder

Alan Mandel

From Lander, Wyoming to the world stage, Alan reads terrain with rare instinct. A ten-year award-winning Red Bull Rampage builder, Todo O Nada founder, and Jay Hoots and Capilano MTB Operations alum, he turns raw ground into lines riders remember.

Chad Lindenbach
02Director of Operations

Chad Lindenbach

Everyone knows Chad as Moose. He keeps the machine moving through scoping, scheduling, client communication, and crew logistics, then jumps back into the dirt as an absolute animal on the hand tools to get the finish right.

Ben Byers
03Lead Builder

Ben Byers

Lead hand on the dirt. Ben takes builds from survey stakes to ride-ready flow, shaping sculpted berms, clean sightlines, and predictable takeoffs with the kind of finish that makes a trail feel dialed from the first lap.

Sky Dunn-Sarvis
04Trail Builder

Sky Dunn-Sarvis

Raised in the Kootenays, Sky spent years as a professional DH racer and grew up around permaculture on his family's regenerative farm. Deeply connected to land and sustainability, he brings rare feel to every build and a wizard's touch in the excavator.

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05Trail Builder

Sebastian Bulat

Machine operator and feature specialist. Sebastian turns heavy earthworks into flowing trail with big berms, smooth rollers, and precise takeoffs. The dirt moves the way he tells it to.

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06Trail Builder

Braiden Draper

Builder and rider. Braiden brings a sharp eye for what actually feels good under wheels. Every trail he shapes rides as good as it looks because he has ridden every version of it.

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Get In Touch

Let's Build Something Epic

Whether you're planning a new bike park, need trail grooming, or want to discuss a project — we'd love to hear from you.

USA

6687 Highway 28, Lander, Wyoming

(307) 349-6446
alan@trailcoinc.com

Canada

116 5100 Anderson Way, #480
Vernon, BC V1T 0C4 Canada.

(604) 808-4248