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about

AMPPL Trials principal, Andy Guptill, has been designing and constructing professional, sustainable trails and features for over a decade, but has been a trail connoisseur since childhood. Growing up in upstate New York, he was constantly scheming and digging new lines on his parents' property and may have ventured over onto his neighbor’s land once or twice. Following a 10-year career as a professional mountain bike and road cyclist, Andy began coaching cycling and teaching at Miller School of Albemarle in Charlottesville, Virginia. The School's rapidly expanding cycling program provided the perfect catalyst to develop a world-class trail network on its 1,600-acre campus, so Andy began working with and learning from some of the best trail builders in the Southeast. After several years of fine-tuning his craft in many areas, including handbuilt singletrack, mechanized flow trails, skills features, and custom spans, AMPPL Trails was created and offers clients the opportunity to build their dream.

Joe Hoskins

Entering the trail building world with a wealth of experience in design-build, Joe has a knack for creating trails and features that are at the same time fun, functional, and beautiful to look at. His decades of work as a master carpenter and woodworker have provided him with an attention to detail that few builders possess, along with the ability to bring to life features and structures that elevate trail user enjoyment. Joe is also a remarkable experienced cyclist, having completed the 2700+ mile Tour Divide and many seasons of mountain bike racing in multiple disciplines. Equally proficient on an excavator or building by hand, Joe enjoys all phases of the trail-building process and feels right at home out on the trails

Jay Drake

As a life-long aficionado of excavators and other heavy equipment, Jay has committed himself to learning and perfecting the art of machine operation and mechanized trail building. While competing as a Varsity mountain bike student-athlete in high school, Jay simultaneously completed a unique course in trail building utilizing a compact excavator. After high school, Jay attended the Penn State affiliated Pennsylvania College of Technology and participated in its Heavy Equipment Program, with an emphasis as an operator. Jay can be found most days deep in the woods sculpting the earth with an excavator, although he doesn’t shy away from hand work when needed.