We cleaned up Cherry Poppins today, cutting out the windfall, raking off the winter debris, and making all sorts of adjustments. This tree had fallen down the line of the trail, so we trimmed it into a basic log-ride with the chainsaw. We re-established the tread down the steep section just above Tiger Main, and [...]
Entries from May 2007
May 27, 2007
Walking to work.
Sometimes trail building can seem like breaking rocks on the chain gang, but it has it’s moments, and walking down the Whiskey trail on a clear crisp morning was one of them. I love the perspective of Rossland that you get from here – our little village nestled in the mountains.
May 27, 2007
Centennial Trail-head.
When the Trails Society undertook a survey of Rossland residents several years back, by far the most well used trail in our network was the Centennial trail (followed by Larry’s and Kootenay Columbia). With the addition of Moe’s trail creating a convenient easy loop around the Reservoir, and judging from number of cars utilizing the [...]
May 22, 2007
Whiskey Trail
When I first rode the Whiskey trail over 15 years ago, the historic smuggling route was situated entirely beneath a dense forest canopy, however the slopes of the ironically named Baldy mountain and the original route of the Whiskey trail have been extensively logged over the past 5 years. The upside for trail users has [...]
May 15, 2007
Redhead trail
The trail crew was out on Redhead trail today, clearing fallen trees, raking off debris, and addressing drainage and wear issues on the tread. Apart from a few small boggy sections, it’s in perfect condition and ready to ride, walk, or run. Redhead doesn’t appear on the latest KCTS trail map, as we hadn’t received [...]
May 10, 2007
Culvert on Kootenay Columbia
Blogging the activities of the trail crew is a bit of an experiment, but I’m hoping it’ll be a great way to let trail users know what we’re doing out there. The full crew starts next week, but Cam and I have been out chain-sawing through windfall on Curly’s, Larry’s, Moes, Full Monte, Techno-Grind, Kootenay [...]
May 1, 2007
Fruita Fat Tire Festival
I’m just back from the Fruita Fat Tire Festival in Fruita Colorado. Troy Rarrick moved to Fruita 13 years ago, bought a funky old building downtown, set up a bike shop in a town with no trails, and started digging. Now Fruita has a huge variety of some of the finest single-track bike trails anywhere, [...]
