Discovering How Planning, Muscle and Nails Can Result in Happy Trails ; Reporter Ray Routhier Finds That Working On Portland Trails Can Be a Backbreaking Job. Series: Maine at Work About This Series Maine at Work Takes an Interactive Look at Iconic, Visible or Just Plain Interesting Jobs Done by Folks in Maine. Reporter Ray Routhier Shadows a Worker or Workers, Reports What He Sees and Tries His Hand at Some of the Job's Duties. If You'd Like to Suggest a Job to Be Explored in This Feature, E-Mail Rrouthier@Pressherald.Com or Call 791-6454.

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I found it a little ironic that as I followed Jaime Parker, trails manager for Portland Trails, he wasn't following a trail.

I thought that a day helping Parker would be spent on nice, neatly manicured and easy-to-navigate trails. Paved maybe.

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Discovering How Planning, Muscle and Nails Can Result in Happy Trails ; Reporter Ray Routhier Finds That Working On Portland Trails Can Be a Backbreaking Job. Series: Maine at Work About This Series Maine at Work Takes an Interactive Look at Iconic, Visible or Just Plain Interesting Jobs Done by Folks in Maine. Reporter Ray Routhier Shadows a Worker or Workers, Reports What He Sees and Tries His Hand at Some of the Job's Duties. If You'd Like to Suggest a Job to Be Explored in This Feature, E-Mail Rrouthier@Pressherald.Com or Call 791-6454.

Instead, I quickly found myself up to my ankles in mud and fighting my way through a thicket of prickly brush.

"No, there's no trail here, we're just taking the fastest route," said Parker, 38, as he carried a stack of seven or eight pieces of cedar boards through hip-high brush and weeds at the F...

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