Mid-summer Advocacy Update
Everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask BMA
After the West TSA, the BMA Advocacy Team hardly had time to sit around and get down. Projects and opportunities have just kept coming: a revisit to the County's oldest management plan, the beginning stages of protecting access to and redesigning one of our finest riding areas, figuring out how to plan and program Valmont Bike Park, and chasing the vision of an integrated system of trails to connect riding areas in the mountains... and that's on top of our day jobs. [Remember, BMA is 100% volunteer-driven] There's plenty going on...  |
for updates on BMA's work with the City, County, and Forest Service, click here:
- Anemone Hill mountain bike trails have been designed, now will they pass an OSBT vote?
- BMA's work to help keep Valmont Bike Park awesome
- West Mag is getting a haircut... and new trails
- Walker Ranch Management Plan: an opportunity
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A Letter From the President
The rocky trail of bike access in Boulder County A jaded optimist's retrospective on 2011  When I moved to Boulder for graduate school in 2001, there were only a handful of trails accessible by mountain bike: Walker Ranch, Hall Ranch, Betasso Preserve, the Sourdough, and a few scattered others. I arrived in Boulder ready to bike my brains out, and I was disappointed to discover that I couldn't ride in any of the public lands surrounding Boulder that make this community so desirable to live in.
So what has changed in the ensuing 10 years? Everything and nothing. 2011 has been a wild ride for mountain biking in Boulder County so far. Kind of like the sweetest flow trail ever designed with a 40 foot gap jump over a pit of vipers thrown in for good measure. I can honestly say that we've never experienced success as rewarding or failure as disappointing as we've experienced in Boulder County in 2011. I can also honestly say that the mountain biking community is on the righteous path toward inevitable victory in our modest and reasonable requests for fair and sustainable access to the public lands that we pay for. |
