One suggestion that I have for trail agencies is that they switch their website calendars to something like Google, or Yahoo for instance that embeds to the webpage. Then restrict access to a number of people who can post to it. But with the services that I just mentioned, they can have Ical address. And end users can subscribe to the trail agency's calendar and it will appear on their own.
The advantage to doing this is that instead of having to go to the agency's website to check for an event, this information comes to them. Furthermore, those with smartphones can access this as well. These are business devices and they are compelled to set up a service anyways. If something goes wrong with the phone, they won't loose the dates that they programmed into the calendar. But these apps can be set to synchronize with the calendar on-line at specified intervals. So even if the hiker looses data cellular signal, they'll still probably have the event and maybe the opportunity to walk into it and participate.
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