Im up in Winter Park for the weekend and havent ridden here before, is any one riding tomorrow we could tag along with? Ill be in the area until around the new year and want to do a bunch of riding.
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I want badly to be doing "a bunch of riding" too!....not happening until it actually snows in Grand County. And by "a bunch of riding" I mean spending all day off trail where hitting rocks and stumps are the last thing on my mind. I've had my fill of trail riding and rock finding for the year.
Yeah, that seems to be the general consensus. Well since I towed the sleds up here I think we will go explore 482 off of 125 and stay on the road just so its not a completely wasted trip. Is that a good area to ride when there is snow?
I, too have not ridden yet this season. Not worth it at this point due to lack of good snow. But I understand your position, and Grand Lake got a little snow over-night (Fri night), so it might be worth it for you guys to trailer over to Idelglenn, Hyw 34 to County Road 4.
I wish it would start snowing already! I had nearly 250 miles on my sled at this time last season.
I wish it would start snowing already! I had nearly 250 miles on my sled at this time last season.
You can ride corona or church park from winter park. Corona is right across from the ski hill. Turn at the Lakota sign and follow the road up the hill, it will go to the left and then follow it a mile to the parking area. To ride church park head down us40 past Fraser and turn left on 50. Cross the tracks and take first left then follow that road all the way to parking lot prob about 8 miles.
We rode Grand county today, had a great day, planning on riding again tomorrow.
Thanks for the heads up on Church Park and Corona, Ill hopefully be making my way over there in the near future.
We rode Kauffman Creek today from 125 and the snow was pretty good although we stayed mostly on the trail. Once it settles down the base will be excellent in the higher areas. Ill be back up for more riding soon, and Im stoked to explore new areas.
We rode Kauffman Creek today from 125 and the snow was pretty good although we stayed mostly on the trail. Once it settles down the base will be excellent in the higher areas. Ill be back up for more riding soon, and Im stoked to explore new areas.
We rode Grand county today, had a great day, planning on riding again tomorrow.
what snow up north too? But all the other reports say there is no snow...barely enough for a trail ride.
what snow up north too? But all the other reports say there is no snow...barely enough for a trail ride.
No, that is East. Over by Fraser.
In all honesty, I did drive up and took a look at the snow on RE. I have been up there in the Summer, in the same places I ride sleds so I know whats underneath the snow. I'm not trying to keep people away, I'm just being up front and honest. I wouldn't put my sled on it and I'd hate for somebody else to toast their ride in sub par conditions. During the course of the last week I have seen quite a few sleds on trailers coming thru town and they were obviously and seriously damaged. There is 18" just around Dumont Lake. I'm quite sure that further North it gets a little deeper but not deep enough to cover the land mines. Buff finally hit 36" on the stick but with all of the rocks and stumps in that area, it's not nearly enough. With all of the fallen snag (dead trees) it makes tree riding risky. It sucks when you are pulling a boondock climb and your skis catch and go under a fallen tree.
PJ, when you say Buff just got over the 36" mark is that using the Snotel site? I'm new to all this snotel stuff and trying to figure it out. I see it says Buff (Tower 825) is at 38", which seems about right from what everyone is saying. But if I click on Wolf Creek (874) it's most current reasonable number is 27" on 12/1, and Upper San Juan (840) is at 25". I'm just wondering how accurate these are, it seems like Wolf Creek should have more than that but I may be messing it up because it's the first time I've really used Snotels (Don't have these back east) I used to just use the interactive maps that showed totals, ex: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/interactive/html/map.html Just change to snow depth and zoom to where ever you want. Like I said just trying to understand this new method of checking snow depths and wondering how close it all is.
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I work at the Young Life Camp you drive by if you got to Church Park. The snowmobile parking lot is actually on the camp property, the county has a maintenance easement to take care of it. Anyway, there was an additional 1/2" of snow saturday and 1" today. The wind had been blowing allot though. That being said there are a ton of stumped up sections and allot of beetle kill sections that are all sorts of nasty. I'm within a mile of the trail head 5 days a week and I don't bother heading up there till after the fist of the year, on a good year. There probably are some good pockets of snow on North slopes but you're not missing anything. Maybe we are all so deprived of good riding we are jealous just to see the ground completely covered by snow. Or maybe I'm a powder snob.
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ive rode buff pass, rabbit ears twice, grand lake, and meadow creek so far this season. destroyed one s-module on a ski doo and hit a few rocks and stumps with minimal damage. if you wanna find powder out there, it is there. ive been side-hilling, boondocking and powder turning for over a month now. just depends on how much you wanna ride and how stupid you want to be. ive been pretty stupid, but ive also had five pretty good rides! give it two weeks and grand county will be good to go.
No wonder you had diffuclty finding work surveying...you think that is Eastern CO
East Grand County, smart as$. The thread is titled "GRAND COUNTY" not "COLORADO" and that area is close to 100 miles from RE/Buff via highways and county roads and a couple different mountain ranges over. From this side there is only one way in, as the other way which sits on a county road at the bottom of Ute Pass is closed for seasonal use.
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yep, not worth it at all... I wouldn't bother
There's stumps for sure, but you can find sections where they are not, and you can find some places that are well blown in with snow.
A negative... for a shot of some POW???? And from a fellow kayaker too... crazy. 
Let's see how many negs I can get for this then!!
a little tree riding vid
Btw, PJ... A buddy came in from your side the other day to meet us, worked out very well, it took him about the same time to get to the main meadow as it took us to get there from our side.
Let's see how many negs I can get for this then!!
a little tree riding vid
Btw, PJ... A buddy came in from your side the other day to meet us, worked out very well, it took him about the same time to get to the main meadow as it took us to get there from our side.
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A negative... for a shot of some POW???? And from a fellow kayaker too... crazy.
Let's see how many negs I can get for this then!!
a little tree riding vid
Btw, PJ... A buddy came in from your side the other day to meet us, worked out very well, it took him about the same time to get to the main meadow as it took us to get there from our side.
He rode in on that trail? Insane. That's one hell of a long trail run. I've been on that road on an ATV during hunting season.
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