Rode FS-550 North from Columbine to the Wyoming border this weekend. The USFS contracted (stimulis money - or your tax dollars at work) to have beetle kill tree's cut and removed along the sides of FS-550 this last Summer.
Well, alot of the tree's have been cut, but there's numerous and huge piles of logs stacked along the edge's of the road, and just off of it, along with slash piles. Many of these will be hidden in the drainage ditches that most of us love to ride when the powder becomes bottomless. So I foresee alot of A-arms will be ripped off, and chassis damaged sleds in the dealers this season. Also many of these log or slash piles have sharp and jagged logs sticking up and out of them, waiting for a serious accident to happen.
My only advice, if you ride FS-550 stay on the groomed trail, and don't do any serious riding off and within a 100-feet of the groomed trail.
...and don't follow my tracks! Go find your own powder stash!
Well, alot of the tree's have been cut, but there's numerous and huge piles of logs stacked along the edge's of the road, and just off of it, along with slash piles. Many of these will be hidden in the drainage ditches that most of us love to ride when the powder becomes bottomless. So I foresee alot of A-arms will be ripped off, and chassis damaged sleds in the dealers this season. Also many of these log or slash piles have sharp and jagged logs sticking up and out of them, waiting for a serious accident to happen.
My only advice, if you ride FS-550 stay on the groomed trail, and don't do any serious riding off and within a 100-feet of the groomed trail.
...and don't follow my tracks! Go find your own powder stash!
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