Training

Hiking trails

Fundamentals of management and planning

This 8-hour theoretical training course aims to improve the quality of hiking and snowshoeing trails in order to make them safer, minimize environmental impacts, and provide a quality experience that takes climate change into account. It is intended for anyone in charge of a network, including team leaders, volunteers, administrators, funders, etc.

Management – field concepts

This 8-hour training course complements R1, allowing participants to put into practice the basic principles for creating, managing, and maintaining a sustainable hiking trail and monitoring infrastructure. Participants will practice techniques for evaluating a hiking trail using evaluation grids, taking measurements, etc.

Bike

Mountain biking risk management - Communication through classification and signage

This training focuses on risk management through trail classification, signage, and trail maintenance plans to provide a quality mountain biking experience. It offers a course that links an understanding of trail types and the experience sought by customers to development and management choices in the field.

Designing and building mountain bike trails

This training provides a clear and proven method for turning an idea into a safe, sustainable trail that is ready to be used without any unpleasant surprises. In one day, the training combines theory and field analysis to master the key steps: principles related to the physical durability of trails, design principles, and all the components of a trail. Participants learn how to create flow, manage speed, choose the right components (turns, drainage, stabilization, structures), and build trails that are more resistant to erosion and weather conditions. The content also helps participants avoid common mistakes that derail projects and make better decisions based on the target clientele and level of difficulty. The training emphasizes simple, essential rules for reducing maintenance and increasing the lifespan of facilities, while protecting the customer experience. In the end, participants leave with concrete benchmarks, field reflexes, and a structured vision for delivering trails that the network can be proud of.

Sustaining your network: maintaining and ensuring its development

This training course offers a comprehensive approach to the maintenance and development of mountain bike trails to ensure their sustainability, safety, and appeal.

Participants will learn how to plan and manage maintenance activities, use the right tools, document interventions, and effectively mobilize volunteers and professionals.

The training also covers network development strategies: route modifications, technical improvements, and the integration of new areas tailored to user needs.

Planning and maintaining fatbike trails in Québec

This training provides the keys to creating a safe, enjoyable, and sustainable winter offering that builds customer loyalty. It transforms the basics of fat biking into concrete decisions in the field: choice of tires, air pressure, grooming quality, and operational efficiency. Risk management in winter conditions is addressed in a practical way, with clear guidelines for planning, prevention, and intervention, supported by effective signage. A comprehensive module accompanies the implementation or optimization of a rental service focused on safety and satisfaction. Finally, the training provides a method for planning a realistic network based on the potential of the territory and maintenance capacity, with an overview of grooming tools and best practices for dealing with changing conditions.

Cross-country skiing

Fundamentals of management and planning

The training also covers network development strategies: route modifications, technical improvements, and the integration of new areas tailored to user needs.

Advanced development, maintenance, and management

This one- or two-day training course builds on the knowledge acquired in S1: analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the main types of maintenance. On the second day (winter only), participants go out into the field to test techniques for operating cross-country ski trail winter maintenance machinery. Aimed at maintenance managers and machinery operators.

Nautical

Water sports facility operator

This training is designed to meet the needs of businesses that offer non-motorized boat rental services, providing them with practical tools and essential knowledge to ensure a pleasant and safe experience for their customers.

Understanding your aquatic environment to adapt to climate change

The training aims to equip municipalities and stakeholders in the nautical sector so that they can adapt their practices to the realities of climate change, taking into account

taking into account the protection of aquatic environments, the prevention of invasive species, and user safety.

Snowmobile and OOH

Off-road vehicles in the era of climate change and sustainability

The two-part training will focus on the challenges posed by climate change on snowmobiling, quad other off-road vehicle use in the Laurentians' the overhaul of the ÉcoSentiers standard. This training will provide you with a comprehensive and enriching overview of sustainable development.

Specialized techniques

Vegetation management

From a recreational tourism perspective, this training focuses on the pragmatic idea of using innovative technical approaches and tools to transform the threat posed by trees and forests exposed to climate change to property and people into a climate ally. It also lays the groundwork for the implementation of preventive programs to ensure the safety of trail activities.

Introduction to climate risk analysis

This two-hour workshop will introduce you to risk analysis and climate resilience. You will leave with concrete action plans to help your organization adapt to change.

Destinations and networks

Development of a recreational tourism destination

This training course, given by Frédéric Asselin, is based on the experience of creating and developing the Bras-du-Nord Valley, a destination renowned for its exemplary practices. Move from "good trails" to a structured, attractive, and safe recreational tourism destination. Be equipped to grow your network by focusing on the quality of the experience, accessibility, and decisions aligned with a strong mission/vision. All this in a concrete, interactive, and agile approach, built around real-life examples and exchanges between participants.

Sustainable development of trail networks

This training aims to improve managers' skills in operationalizing sustainable development so that their trail networks are environmentally friendly, economically viable, and socially acceptable. This training will also cover the various incentive tools available to ensure the long-term viability of trails.