Unofficial Trail Authority · EC-14 · Revised 7 November 2026 · https://trailauthority.org/notices/ec-14/ · Uncontrolled copy when printed. The Unofficial Trail Authority is an independent fictional organization. It is not a government agency or land-management authority.
EC-14 · In force
Non-Revision of Built Features
A feature is the work of the people who put it there. While those people are still attending to it, the Authority classifies the rock, the roller, the drop, or the turn as a finished instrument. Riders do not add to it, remove it, soften it, or clean it up between visits.
Gnarliness is not a defect to be filed away. A feature that asks for attention is meeting its purpose. A request that it be made smaller, more polite, or acceptable to a person who did not come to ride is recorded as a request to reduce the trail's reason for existing. The office declines that request.
If the builders are present and at work, the correct passage is the line already there, or a short wait. Advice from the saddle is not a revision. A tool in the hands of a visitor is not a kindness, including a tool picked up in order to "put it back" after someone else has meddled. The record of a meddling is Form 04-B. The correction belongs to the builders.
This directive does not appoint the public to build. It appoints the public to leave the work as they found it, interesting enough to be worth repeating.