Winter 2008

It's been a snowy season. We have managed to keep our sanity with a couple mid-winter trips to the Baja Penisula. Here are pics from our last Baja trip. As you can see we met the” Pope” in our travels. We covered 1300 miles and made it as far south as San Ignacio. We also rode about 220 miles of single track and about 80 miles of beaches. The KTM 525s are the perfect bike for this trip. We used foam inserts instead of tubes for the first time and they worked great except one developed a flat spot on the next to last day. Nice not to worry about flats!

Check out our updated ride schedule for this fall on our Tours, Rides and Events page.

Gunnison National Forest Travel Management Plan Update

An update on the status of the GNF TMP has been released. Nine-hundred and thirty (930) comment letters, emails and/or faxes were received from individuals and various organizations and user groups. Most of the comments provided recommendations on one or more specific routes. Approximately 240 routes throughout the Gunnison area received comments during the scoping period. Details of the update can be found at:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/gmug/policy/travel_mgmt/gun/index.shtm

A special thanks is extended to those who made their comments known during the scoping period.

Record number [50+] of offroad community participate in trail work weekend in Crested Butte
last August

More than 50 members of the offroad community showed up to lend a hand the weekend of August 18-19 for a trail maintenance weekend focusing on the Bear Creek and Flag Creek Trails near the vicinity of Spring Creek Reservoir. The Colorado Backcountry Trail Riders Alliance in cooperation with Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association with the supervision of the USFS Gunnison Ranger District Trail Crew, coordinated an effort to rebuild and rejuvinate said trails. For the first time, the number of offroad community volunteers equaled the number of mountain bike volunteers!

Wearing heavy work shoes and gloves, over 100 volunteers gathered over the entire weekend. Saturday morning began a full day of work concentrating on the Bear Creek Trail. Picks and shovels were handed out to every volunteer by the USFS Gunnison Ranger District Trail Crew headed by Lora Schmillen. With the large number of volunteers, the entire section of trail was completed much to the satisfaction of the Forest Service. More than half the participants elected to stay for the ensuing dinner, drawing and campout that evening. Flag Creek Trail was on Sunday's agenda for the final day of work. The trail was completed in half the amount of time estimated leaving time to ride whether on a dirt or mountain bike.

On an ending note-- — while most of the mountain bike volunteers came from the Crested Butte area, most of the motorized community came from all over Colorado and beyond. We had 2 volunteers from Iowa and 3 from California. This is a testimony to how important it is we work to keep the trails within the Gunnison National Forest open to motorized use! For those of us in the close vicinity of CB and Taylor Park who take it for granted that we will always have a place to ride, look at the majority of those who come to ride here and why. We are fortunate!