Yesterday my trails organization, Salida Mountain Trails, had a volunteer day. We have done this before, even this year, but this one was special. This workday was the first day that we were able to build trail on BLM land near Salida.
We have built some short trail sections on a limited amount of City of Salida-owned land across the river and north of downtown. But these projects were limited. The City land is nice, but it's quite finite. Perhaps 150 acres. Our mission has been to build a trail system. Western style. Long rides (or hikes, or trail runs). We've been working with BLM to get clearance to start building our plan for years. Four of them. And yesterday was the day when we first operated on the "green light means go" rule. We broke ground on our Backbone Trail, the first level of our stacked loop trail system.
And we got 40 folks! We built about 1/3 mile of trail!
Check the pics:
This is how it starts. Actually, note the guy in the background with the black shirt and yellow hardhat--it starts with him going out and flagging the route. No wait, it starts with him organizing the whole thing while I played in Mexico. Famous GAT Squadder, Andrew M.
End of the day, not yet sculpted to perfection, but trail.
A bit of the last project we did on City of Salida Land
So there you have it, progress out in the Piñon across the river from Salida.
3 comments:
Very nice Tom. Congratulations to you and Andrew for persevering and getting started on the project.
Ed
Holy cow! Awesome...just awesome! I pass through Salida quite a bit now these days and the thought of having some great trail right from town is quite appealing. You guys rock!
this is the way a blog should be! thanks!
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