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A letter from Mike Barrow
Greetings! This is your best chance to get in on the planning to make Walker work better for bikes (and trail runners, and hikers, and anglers, and equestrians too!). If you (yes, I really mean YOU) show up at this meeting with me and others who support high quality, sustainable trails, we'll get taken seriously. Otherwise, not only will the planners miss out on your input, but they'll just assume we're hunky dory with the way things stand.
On Tuesday, the planning staff of Boulder County Parks and Open Space will present a set of management alternatives at an open house.
Tuesday November 13, 2012
2525 13th Street, Boulder
2nd Floor conference Room
6 - 8pm
BMA submitted comments in July, 2011 on this plan and asked for a wide array of changes to how the trail system works, both internally and externally. While we tried to incorporate as many voices into our comments, we don't wish to presume we know better... and we certainly don't know what, if anything, planning staff took from those comments and integrated them into any management proposal. BMA doesn't have any insider information and how we react to the proposals is up to all of us. We value input from individuals like you, and we need your help determining what BMA supports or doesn't support in this process.
 When we speak with one voice, we can have a tremendous impact on the outcome. Remember the planning process for the Wild Turkey trail? BCPOS first proposed a 0.25 mile loop, and we made a big enough noise (twice, actually) to changed the outcome into the fantastic trail we have today.
If you have the time and energy to help steer this process in the right direction, here is what we propose we do:
- SHOW UP at the meeting Tuesday
- Join us afterward at Salt, 1047 Pearl St discuss and formulate a response.
The first beer is on BMA. Yeah, it will make for a long evening, but the information will be fresh in our minds and the best part will be the fact that we'll be DONE with this phase.
This is a process, and this is the next step toward making Walker Ranch a better place to ride. What BMA does from here is up to folks like you.
Here are a few thoughts to get you started. They are not written in BMA stone. They are just thoughts:
- Build a bike connector to the plains through Eldorado Canyon
- Build a bike connector West to Winniger Ridge and/or the Dot trails
- Connect Meyers Gulch as close as possible to the top of Flagstaff and eventually to OSMP's Chapman Drive
- Where the trail is on old roads, make it into singletrack
- The Columbine Gulch trail has a couple of sections with "easy" and "hard" lines - we'd like to see more of that
- Maybe an additional trail bisecting the main loop to allow for figure 8s
- Maybe additional trail at Meyers Gulch - like a beginner's loop? Think Rustler's Loop in Fruita
- Walker is already an intermediate/advanced trail - let's keep that character and make the trail more technical and challenging than Heil or Betasso
The world is run by those that show up.
Mike Barrow
BMA Advocacy Director
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