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Riding the Holy Cross Wilderness?

During our local club (Holy Cross Powder Hounds) meeting, the FS told us that they found these people. Our club works to help battle these issues. We already struggle living in a very liberal area (little sister to Boulder). The FS guy told us they found out these sleds were up near the Beaver Creek ski area.

We need more people to join the club. You don't have to do anything if you don't want to, but the numbers are huge. We have less than 10% of the county registered sleds in our club. This is relavent because we work to battle issues like these.
 
that's a bummer. How well is the wilderness boundry marked around there? Because around here you would never even know you enterd it. To bad some donkey turned him in.
 
Does not matter how well its marked. Can't put a fence around it. You are responsible for knowing where you are. Just like hunting. Out of your tag area you are in the wrong. As far as someone turning him in, no $hit batman, what do you think is going to happen.
 
i ve rode up around where this happened and the boundry line is just below the tree line but if you look on some older maps the line is almost at the summit of the bald spot but the newer the map is the farther the boundry in is down the hill but it is the riders who must know where they are
 
I live in this area and it is a very liberal area. Lot's of tree huggers and they will jump all over the opportunity to expose sledders.
 
BugIto said:
I live in this area and it is a very liberal area. Lot's of tree huggers and they will jump all over the opportunity to expose sledders.
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So, then don't be a retard & ride in the wilderness. If we give them an opportunity to make us look like crap, it's much easier for them to fight for more closed areas.
 
:beer;:beer; cheers then!

I get sick of people whining about the lefties & how they're just going to ride the wilderness anyway. And they wonder why people think we're all stupid....:confused:
 
BugIto said:
During our local club (Holy Cross Powder Hounds) meeting, the FS told us that they found these people. Our club works to help battle these issues. We already struggle living in a very liberal area (little sister to Boulder). The FS guy told us they found out these sleds were up near the Beaver Creek ski area.

We need more people to join the club. You don't have to do anything if you don't want to, but the numbers are huge. We have less than 10% of the county registered sleds in our club. This is relavent because we work to battle issues like these.
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I'm willing to bet less than 10% of the members on this site belong to a club...I think it's also a fact that only 10% of all sleds in CO are registered.
 
I rode Vail Pass/Shrine Pass areas on Wednesday - you guys have pretty much lost the battle up there. There were more signs posted in the riding areas than on I-25 in Denver. It's not that the terrain is "Wilderness" but lots of the outlying areas are "closed" due to some travel management planning thing. I paid the $6 for a day pass...just felt disgusted.

I guess 10% isn't enough to preserve our riding areas.

Off to R&W next - hope they haven't screwed that up too.

MD.
 
VP is why I didn't join you guys today. Rules and regs. I met a guy last year that went off the trail and got a $100 ticket. Besides, you have to get a Lift ticket and have it visible. Disney Riding. I can't see what the attraction is up there.

BTW, our areas are steller. Irwin, Cottonwood and parts unknown. DOO, I will not tell our areas.......around Omaha is where we rode? :rolleyes:
 
Well, we rode the anthisis of Vail Pass Wednesday and Hancock Pass & Cumberland Pass out of St. Elmo on Thursday. Big country out there - totally different vibe in the Collegiates.

VP used to be pretty cool as it's high, has good snow, great terrain, etc.. but then the parking and "demonstration" area stuff started to drag it down we started riding R&W, and some other areas. Weekdays seem to still be best - weekends I would't go near the VP Zoo.

VP just didn't feel the same with a orange stick every 10 feet EVERYWHERE.
Not good.

;-)

MD.
 
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VP is why I didn't join you guys today. Rules and regs. I met a guy last year that went off the trail and got a $100 ticket. Besides, you have to get a Lift ticket and have it visible. Disney Riding. I can't see what the attraction is up there.

BTW, our areas are steller. Irwin, Cottonwood and parts unknown. DOO, I will not tell our areas.......around Omaha is where we rode? :rolleyes:
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The attraction is that Vail Pass gets a ton of snow, more than Zuma or Spring Creek. Also there is a lot of easy sled access to a lot of GREAT skiing and snowboarding. I also say that there wouldnt be so many people up there if it wasnt a GREAT place to be. If there were no signs and closures, there wouldnt be as many place to snowboard cuz the sleds would tear it all up. Besides the no snowmobiling signs just saves me some powder stashes. Sometimes i like having groomed trails, ecspecially when im riding double. Most of the forest service guys are cool if you just talk too them. Weekends are for gapers anyway, the dedicated riders go on the weekdays.

Oh yeah, the best part is that its only like 10 minute drive from my house!
 
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Wow - that definitely justifies my veiled (pun!) reference to Vail's Obama-supporters. A skier/snowboarder who wants to snowmobile to ski terrain on groomed trails, and ski areas closed to snowmobiles. Doesn't sound too "dedicated" to anything to me. To each his own!

Those of us who "earn our turns" throw on skins or Redfeathers and work for it - that's dedication.

;-)

MD.




J-Fly said:
The attraction is that Vail Pass gets a ton of snow, more than Zuma or Spring Creek. Also there is a lot of easy sled access to a lot of GREAT skiing and snowboarding. I also say that there wouldnt be so many people up there if it wasnt a GREAT place to be. If there were no signs and closures, there wouldnt be as many place to snowboard cuz the sleds would tear it all up. Besides the no snowmobiling signs just saves me some powder stashes. Sometimes i like having groomed trails, ecspecially when im riding double. Most of the forest service guys are cool if you just talk too them. Weekends are for gapers anyway, the dedicated riders go on the weekdays.

Oh yeah, the best part is that its only like 10 minute drive from my house!
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MtnDoo said:
Wow - that definitely justifies my veiled (pun!) reference to Vail's Obama-supporters. A skier/snowboarder who wants to snowmobile to ski terrain on groomed trails, and ski areas closed to snowmobiles. Doesn't sound too "dedicated" to anything to me. To each his own!

Those of us who "earn our turns" throw on skins or Redfeathers and work for it - that's dedication.

;-)

MD.
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Might not be dedicated, but it sure is fun. I actually snowmobile in the areas that are closed to snowmobiles too. And i actually think Obama is a fraud. I dont vote. And im not from Vail. And this summer im buying a split board with skins so i can access more terrain. I just like sleddin too. Vail pass is annoying sometimes, but its worth it. I have had some of the best days of my life there. This year it has just got a lot more snow than the east side of summit county. It all love. peace
 
J-Fly said:
Might not be dedicated, but it sure is fun. I actually snowmobile in the areas that are closed to snowmobiles too. And i actually think Obama is a fraud. I dont vote. And im not from Vail. And this summer im buying a split board with skins so i can access more terrain. I just like sleddin too. Vail pass is annoying sometimes, but its worth it. I have had some of the best days of my life there. This year it has just got a lot more snow than the east side of summit county. It all love. peace
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To many people. I used to live a Copper and go up there before the crowds and the area got divided up. No thanks. As far as riding in closed areas up there, it's $100 ticket. Good snow but, parking lot cowboys, street signs. No thanks.

I like to go where no man has gone before...... Scotty, give me more powder. - James Kirk
 
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