Squaw is still the biggest and most athletically challenging, but Northstar is gunning to shed its "just for families" image with private residence clubs, a Ritz-Carlton scheduled for next winter and newly expanded trails at Lookout Mountain.
The installation is part of the zoo's expanding trail system, designed to provide more variety and stimulation for the animals and bring them closer to visitors.
A fine layer of dust covered the inlaid floors, disturbed by the expanding trails left by the soles of combat boots.
WHAT TO READ The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, established in 1920 to improve and expand trails in the metropolitan area, publishes a 472-page guide with maps, the "New Jersey Walk Book," edited by Daniel Chazin, and now provides hiking and walking details on its Web site, www.nynjtc.org.
"The reroute is pending legislation," said Mr. Matthews, who heads a staff working for land easements, private-sector permissions and government approval of the ever-expanding trail.
A city with notoriously lax planning regulations is now making a conscious effort to put more care into its built environment, with more public transport, expanded bike trails, better parks and denser, more walkable neighbourhoods all evident in recent years, even as the suburbs continue to swell.
When you see an old trail being expanded or a new trail being formed, silently inspect the end of the trail for a slight movement of the grass as the mole works at the end of the trail.
Its mandate was to upgrade and expand the trail system and this spring Moab is unveiling a wealth of new trails and rehabilitating many of its familiar but rather degraded established tracks.
This doesn't appear to be the case for our ant when it started its slow crawl down its giant and quickly expanding rubber trail.
