Latest Info About the School Bus Trail
While on patrol on sunday the 4th, I rode up to the Champion Mine/Phoenix to visit with Fred and his wife, the owners of the site.
They are generally pleased with the mountain bikers; they have embraced the trail reroute and visits to the mine site has dropped off considerably. They continue to have problems with motorized users and are working with the Gilpin Sheriff to address it.
Fred told me that members of the Toll family paid him a visit recently to "lecture" him about how he was letting mountain bikers across his property and into their property. Fred saw it as an attempt at intimidation, which didn't work.
He was told that The Toll family is hiring off duty sheriffs to patrol and write $200 trespassing tickets. We don't know if this is real or blowing smoke, but it is worth spreading the information to other users. The situation seems to be escalating.
The root cause of this problem is a wonderful trail dead ends into private property. We need to find out where the public land ends and private property starts, and then route the trail away from that private property and stay on public land.
I am pressing the Boulder Ranger District for that information. Stay tuned...
BTW, lots of people on the trails Sunday, I saw that in campsite #2 there were freshly fabricated gates laying there waiting to be installed. the evolution continues....
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