Trails by Singletrack Trails in the press

Last fall the final issue of Mountain Bike magazine published an article entitled “The Best New Trails”.  Singletrack Trails was fortunate enough to have two trails make the list of ten. Check out the list here.

Free Lunch was built by Singletrack Trails in partnership with Bicycle Colorado, COPMOBA, IMBA, and the Grand Junction BLM.  It is a great trail that interprets the landscape to enhance the riders enjoyment on this mountain bike only trail.

For those that know Singletrack Trails, you know how much of a roll Curt Gowdy State Park plays in our construction schedule each year.  This year we have been reconstructing the Field Archer’s Course.  Approximately one half of this 35 mile trail system has been built by Singletrack Trails.  It has become a major destination among the mountain bikers of the Colorado Front Range and across the nation according to the out of Wyoming license plates at the trail head.

Curt Gowdy State Park was also in a recent issue of Outside Magazine as a great, cheap recreational destination.

Singletrack Trails in the press

The Lunch Loop Bike Park, that Singletrack Trails completed in the fall of 2010 with COPMOBA and the City of Grand Junction, was recently reviewed in Elevation Outdoors.

Check out the article here.

Be sure to check out Devon Balet’s site also.

Near completion, good enough to ride

The Spring Canyon Trials Park in Fort Collins, CO is mostly complete.  Everything in the pocket park is finished to a state that it can be ridden.  Just a little site grading for drainage needs to be done, but that won’t happen soon with all of the rain that my Hood River, OR companion brought with him.

Jason and I put in some long hours with the help of the Larimer County Youth Conservation Corps and staff from the IMBA mothership this week.  Hail storms slowed us down quite a bit.  On two different days, we were chased off of the worksite into my truck for protection from the hail falling from the sky.

I will post up some finished photos as soon as the site dries out and can be ridden.  Here are two photos of working in the “wonderful” weather we have been having.  It was the youth corps very first day of actual work and they got to experience the Pacific Northwest in Colorado at its very best.

Refurbishing Spring Canyon Trials Park

The last couple days have been a whrilwind of chainsawing at the Spring Canyon Trials Park here in Fort Collins, Co.  I have been working with Jason Wells from IMBA Trail Solutions to revamp the park with natural materials to help mitigate some maintenance issues that were arising.

Jason removed all of the structures that were made with dimesional lumber while I have been working with the crew at Curt Gowdy State Park.  I arrived the day after a large deliver of Cottonwood tree sections and immediately started cutting.  The City of Fort Collins is providing some great dirt to build features.

Here a couple photos.  I will post more when we complete the project in a couple of days.

Flagline Revision in Nevada

As the crew has been tying up loose ends in Grand Junction, I headed off to Lamoille, NV to revisit a project from a couple winters ago.

I came to Lamoille in December of 2007 to help the local volunteers revamp the disappearing Secret-Lamoille Trail.  I flagged 12 miles of sustainable trail corridor that time.  In all, the trail will be close to 30 miles long.

This time I am working for the Great Basin Institute to adjust part of the 12 mile corridor flagline near private property.  The owner has always been amiable to a conservation easement to help the trail get completed, but wanted a smaller area of his land used.

This project was difficult in 2007 with 20 degree temps and 10-20 inches of snow on the ground.  The bushwhacking through the thicket didn’t get any easier on this trip either.  I got to do lots of crawling under trees and face smacking with branches.

Here are some photos.  I will post more over on the Flicker page soon.