Bobcat Ridge-Ginny Trail Planning

Got to enjoy the super beautiful fall weather today and ride my bike at the City of Fort Collins Natural Area-Bobcat Ridge.

This project will entail working with the local mountain bike community to construct alternate lines on the black diamond Ginny Trail. The first goal will be to address the areas that retain moisture during the spring and after rains.

Here are couple of photos of areas that may get alternate lines.

I hate cheater lines!! Already developed on the inside of both rocks in this photo. Goal: remove the opportunity to go around.
There is a line in there, trust me.
Big fat logs make great log rides.

Time to bundle up

Headed up to Curt Gowdy State Park in Wyoming today to do some finish work on that project. This is probably my favorite location to work. High plains, Ponderosas, decomposed granite....wind, chilly temps. Got to the park this morning and it was about 45 degrees at 11 am and it never got much warmer. Good thing I travel with winter clothes all year long.

Today I was installing plywood backing to the trail maps at intersections.


I also had some good light to take some photos of trail sections that I built a couple of years ago.

Roughed in accessible trail

Got to stay at home every night this past week and catch up on the chores that I don't do very often. To help me from getting to bored or successful in the list of chores, I had this very small machine construction project with the Canyon Lake Ranger District here in Fort Collins.

All I did was rough in the 1700' of trail tread for a 40" wide accessible trail connecting Dowdy Lake to West Lake. It was up near Red Feather Lakes. Had good company from the CLRD engineering department on Thursday. Brandon and Steve went nuts on a couple of stumps that another "trail crew" and cut off at the ground.

It was great to bring curvilinear trail construction to an accessible trail.

Here a some photos of my "after". The CLRD is having 200 Boy Scouts import crusher fines and finish the rake down on National Public Lands Day.

Still spunky at 15

Bungee's birthday today

Another user group of pocket parks

I was working on making a teeter at the Spring Canyon Bike Trials Park here in Fort Collins a little more stout today. As I was finishing up, a group of about 8 riders showed up and started using the skills area. Turned out it was the Fort Collins Police Department bike unit out doing some in-service training. Incredible!! Agencies shouldn't just build pocket parks for the public, but the police department too.




Oh yeah, and then the FreeRunners came through...jumping from log to log