06/19/2026
What a great week in the back country.
• we were able to mitigate timber on all 120 miles of our trails.
•we found over $1000 dollars worth of our orange and yellow poles.
•we significantly widened our winter trail system for safer groomer operating and winter use enjoyment.
•we cut down over 1000 trees in a 5 day period.
Unfortunately, the trees and the groomers keep getting wider and this project has been long overdue. Most of the cutting involved standing dead timber that was soon to fall on the trail.
The pictures below are on the Continental Divide trail affectionately called "tree hallway". The first pic is the "before" and the a second is "after".
Charlie Cammer our local groomer operator looks on as the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Saw team works both sides down hill from the divide while our our U.S. Forest Service partners walk uphill from USFS 412. This trail was so thick and overgrown we couldn't pick poles up on it during the summer.
Big thanks to all the volunteers who showed up to help this week especially Steamboat Lake & Pearl Lake State Parks Sandy Brenenstuhl. It takes Hahn's Peak Village to groom a snowmobile trail!
