Yea its the same weekend as Dirt Fest. I think I may head up to Highland. A weekend of learning trail building techniques from very qualified trail builders, and hitting the trails in the afternoon sounds like fun to me.
This year's course will be unique because we will offer an introduction to mechanized trail building with one of New England's most prominent professional trail builders, Hardy Avery. We will also be working with personnel from Highland Mountain Bike Park to better understand how to build gravity trails.
The $120 registration fee includes all educational materials, including IMBA Trail Solutions book, as well as all meals and snacks.
Here's the info. http://www.nemba.org/nembaevents/trail_school.htm
I met Hardy once at a VMB meeting.