TTB - About Us

This website is the private project of David and Monica Day. We are both members of the NY/NJ Trail Conference, Appalachian Trail Conference, Appalachian Mountain Club, and the Green Mountain Club. We currently co-lead the NY/NJ Trail Conference’s West Jersey Crew, and are active members of the TC's West of Hudson South Crew (working in the lower Hudson Valley region). We are also known to join in with other crews in the area, or act as presenters at trail construction skills workshops. In case you have not figured it out, we are 'into' trail work in a big way. We really enjoy the work -- it is such a huge difference from the hi-tech world we spend our workaday world in. When we are not working on the trails, we are hiking on them year round (and often as not, taking mental notes of work that needs to be done...) Thanks for the nice picture, Larry!

Monica is an avid hiker, backpacker and back country skier. She has been doing trail work with the NY/NJ TC for over 12 years. A graduate of the Student Conservation Association Leadership training program, she has been a crew leader with the NY/NJ Trail Conference's West Hudson Crew for most of those years. Monica has prepared and delivered workshops in trail construction skills for the Trail Conference on several occasions. In her real life she is an Oracle applications developer for a private consulting firm..

David is also an avid hiker, backpacker and photographer. He been doing organized trail work regularly with the NY/NJ Trail Conference for over 9 years, originally working and learning with the prolific West Hudson crew. Along the way he has developed a real passion for rock work. David has also participated in delivering trail construction workshops for the Trail Conference. He has contributed articles to various publications, and this website is largely his project. In his real life he is a Database Administrator and data systems programmer (and sometimes network systems administrator).

Our Awards	It really does mean so much to us to be recognized, especially by our respected peers and friends.
	Thank you all! David & Monica
NY/NJ Trail Conference	- 2001 William Hoeferlin Award (Monica) - 2001 William Hoeferlin Award (David)

American Hiking Society	- 2004 Volunteer Of The Year Award, State of New Jersey (Monica) - 2004 Volunteer Of The Year Award, State of New Jersey (David)

These web pages have been created (mostly) using MS-FrontPage and a few other tools which have escaped from my programming toolbox. We host our own servers, so we can (learn to) do all those cool techie things that we'd like to try. It also means that when problems occur, we may be 'gone' for a while; but I will do my best to keep things up and clean.

As much as possible, I have kept things simple to maintain compatibility with older and 'non-Microsoft' browsers like Netscape 4.x and up and Web TV. I have tried to avoid frames, and you won't find animations, 'blinkies', banners and all that other resource wasting stuff... ("Gratuitous Visual Puffery" - Adam Hosmer). Currently, there is only a little Java or VB Script and there are no cookies (see our privacy statement page) in use on our pages. Eventually, there will be some real-time database activity, at which point ASP will be in use, but I will try to keep things server-side to avoid complications for you visitors.

I also have tried to keep the size of the photo and illustration pages under control to minimize the pain for folks with conventional, dial-up connections. The initial views of photos are all done as reduced thumbnails with the underlying 'full size' JPEGs scaled to about 6"x9" and 'thinned' to 72 pixels to keep their download size as far under 100k as possible. They will look fine on screen, but won't be much use for critical printing. The photos we have taken are all scanned to size from the negatives or slides. Those by other folks are either scanned from prints they sent, or direct digital images.