OK, here are a couple trails I think would be great for this meeting.
One is China Wall. It is probably most difficult for people to get to, so the meeting turn out may not be as good, but the trail is short, simple, has several obstacles to play on but all of those have bypasses, the trail does have some small challenges that will still give a chance for the stockers to test out their rig, there is a nice clearing by the river in the shade at the end of the trail. On the way back out of the trail, there is another trail #204.1 that seperates from the China Wall trail (#212.1). Don't know what 204 is called, but it is a nice little trail with some nice big rolling rocks to crawl over (those are ok for stockers IMHO), but the part that isn't ok for stockers is a very sharp, narrow, steep right turn down a very rocky hill. The very top of this obstacle is so narrow and off camber, one little screw up, and you'll be begging for rear quarter panel armor like on my XJ.
Looking through the trip reports for China Wall on traildamage.com, you will see people have added pictures of this hill to their China Wall run, so stockers, don't be scared, you don't have to go that way.
The other trail I am looking at is Rollins Pass and Jenny Creek. These wouldn't be difficult to get a great turnout of members, but it is a much longer trail. It is up toward Boulder. Rollins Pass is pretty much a very scenic dirt road. Lots of neat scenic info on www.traildamage.com. Here is the link: http://www.traildamage.com/trails/report.php?id=338
A little ways up Rollins Pass there is another trail called Jenny Creek. http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=17 It is pretty short, but it is really not stocker friendly according to the report. Jenny Creek meets back up with Rollins Pass at Yankee Doodle Lake, which is a popular picnic/fishing spot. I am thinking we run up Rollins, the more adventurous individuals can split off and run Jenny Creek, we all meet up at Yankee Doodle Lake, have lunch and meeting, finish Rollins pass up to the top, come back down as a big group on Rollins Pass, and then go home, or head into Boulder or Denver area and have dinner, or whatever we figure out from there depending on time. Here is a topo of the Rollins Pass/Jenny Creek trails: http://www.traildamage.com/trails/rolli ... ap_big.gif
What do you guys think? Time is running out pretty quick on this one, so let's choose between China Wall trip or Rollins Pass trip, and start getting our list of those attending going. I'm going to put a vote in for Rollins Pass, and since school is going now, probably better make this one a Saturday run for August 26.
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