I buy it. Yeah different techniques for different terrain, I suppose.

Take for example, this. Here, we’d say to step on that rock, and then leap to that root on the left, then the root on the right, then the fallen tree, etc.

If you don’t, you end up with this. And something that bad will end up closed, or rerouted. Hopefully, it’ll get something like this before it’s bad, and might stand a chance at not needing much more restoration, but again this isn’t nearly as sustainable.

My assumption is, as I was saying about the ruggedness of the terrain out this way, the wider, less ankle-breaking, smooth switchbacks (as opposed to New England and ADK’s tendency to just go more or less straight up huge chutes) of the west coast demand the literal opposite methods to care for the trails.