The Google Earth - QGIS - Google Earth loop for trail design can be time consuming and may not find the ideal route. Draw a route, export it, calculate grades based on LiDAR elevations, find out half the segments are too steep, go back, redraw, re-export. Repeat.

The world is insane and my prescription for making it less insane is goats. Here’s a map showing where one might go to surround themselves with goats. There are 34 counties in the US with more goats than people.