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Maximize Mountain Biking Opportunities If you would like to protect the mountain-biking opportunities we enjoy in the Little Belts, please comment on the U.S. Forest Service draft travel plan by sending the agency an email. Feel free to paste parts of the following information into your comments along with your personal reflections. Please indicate Jefferson Division Travel Plan in the subject line. Better yet, write them a personal letter. Deadline for comments has been extended to November 25. A general consensus reached by most club members at October's meeting follows: No bicycling restrictions are, or should be, proposed in the draft Little Belts travel plan. However, many of our favorite trails will become unridable if Trail Bikes are not allowed to use them as proposed in the draft plan. Trail bikers clear the deadfall and smooth the trail surface on most of the Little Belt singletrack trails we enjoy. The number of trails proposed for closure to trail bikes should be cut by at least 75 percent. However, some of the trail-bike restrictions proposed in the plan are appropriate. Where the existing trail bike use causes excessive erosion or stream degradation, these trails should be rerouted or restricted. Walkers are entitled to quiet trails. Since the favored Rocky Mountain Front Range travel plan restricts motorized travel from nearly all of the Front Range trails, walkers can focus their quiet hiking trips on the Front. |
