The Final Test – Upper Oasis
With the trail crew into our last week of work for the summer season, the trails are in great shape. Recent rains have eliminated any dust, and with the leaves starting to change, it’s a great time to be out on the trails. We’ve been all over the place lately, ticking things off our endless list of priorities. We replaced and repaired the two sequential jumps about halfway down Upper Oasis – the top one is significantly larger, but both are now very smooth. We bridged and armored a a couple of persistently boggy sections and installed the Rainbow bridge from the Seven Summits Poker Ride on Redhead.
New Bridge on Redhead
Larry’s and Curly’s are among our most well used trails, and both received some intensive maintenance, and Full Monte, Cemetery, Roger’s, Spring Cleaning, Green Door and Plewman trails have all seen some significant work. There’s already been a dusting of snow on the higher peaks of the Rossland Range, which for the moment is sticking around. The transition to winter conditions in the mountains, and the closure of the Seven Summits trail could happen at any time.
Behind the scenes, there’s lots of planning being done, and both staff and the board are working hard to try to secure funding for the KCTS for 2009.
2 Comments
October 7, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Want to say thank you KCTS. Made it out to Rossland last week for two days to do a warm up, then the 7 summits on Wednesday, weather was perfect, trail awesome, we bailed early, due to the climb, but will be back next year for the complete loop, and maybe the poker run. Thanks again KCTS, Blaine for the lift, and Rose, great food and hospitality.
Raymond & Deb
November 3, 2008 at 9:36 am
Spoons – G’Day from Melbourne, Australia. Thought we’d check in ad nsee what’s going on in Rossland. Hope all is well. ASbsolutely nothing to report here – Say hello to Campbell for us.
Actually, I lie – Howie and Caroline are getting married in December. Are you coming? And Houghy had his nuts cut off but they still fire live rounds…
Cakehole and Houghy.