2021 can’t come fast enough!
What a time to be a trail. Pummeled on an ongoing basis by boots, hooves, and tires. Soil compacts and dissipates beneath the pressure, revealing the rocks and roots below.
Up above, We varied users go about our trail use, challenging ourselves and each other. Until the pandemic turned the weekend warriors into daily riders and the trails bore the brunt.
The pressure of quarantine and social distancing has resulted in lot’s more people riding bikes. Subsequently some trails that previously were able to exist as ‘social’ ‘non-system’ trails suddenly became too popular for the land owners around them. See the destruction of the ‘Banner’ trail and the increased ‘no trespassing’ signage in Aldasoro, plus a variety of other routes that bikers risk losing access to.
Heading into 2021 we need to accept that bikers in Telluride can no longer rely on access to trails that we love and we’ve got to work for more trails and better biking.
