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ARTICLES OPEN SPACE and TRAILS BOARD of TRUSTEES Feb. 1, 2018 Aspen City Hall Newspaper Articles ARTICLES OPEN SPACE AND TRAILS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Feb. 1, 2018 Aspen City Hall Newspaper Articles/ Letters to Editor/Public Comment: Carbondale to Crested Butte Trail Planning Project County commissioners, open space board brainstorm on Carbondale to Crested Butte Trail, 1/17/2018, ADN Pitkin County commissioners give OK to start Crystal Valley Trail draft plan, 1/17/2018, AT Crystal River Caucus want more influence on Carbondale to Crested Butte trail, 1/22/2018, Aspen Times Biodiversity Region-wide bioldiversity inventory gaining steam, 1/26/2018, Aspen Daily News Great Outdoors Colorado Study finds Great Outdoors Colorado gives state $507 million economic boost, 1/16/2018, DP Water issues New water agreement for Crystal River could open door to boost Colorado River, 1/24, 2018, AT BLM Planning process for newly acquired Sutey Land Exchange parcel to begin soon, 1/18/2018, Aspen Daily News Biking Skico eyes new biking ‘flow’ trails, other summer amenities on Aspen Mountain Opinion Column-Slippery slope with Pitkin County Open Space and Trails, 1/20/2018, Aspen Times County commissioners, open space board brainstorm on Carbondale-to-Crested Butte Trail M. John Fayhee, Jan. 17, 2018, Aspen Daily News Even though the planning process for the Pitkin County portion of proposed 83-mile Carbondale-to-Crested Trail (C-CBT) has been ongoing since December 2016, fundamental issues are still being sussed out. At a joint work session Tuesday between the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) and the Open Space and Trails Board, such fundamental components of the trail-planning process as whether to establish a budget before proceeding further or to get a draft plan and then see how much that plan would cost were still on the discussion table. Ditto whether the trail should be built in segments and, if so, which segments ought to be constructed first. County Commissioner Steve Child even tossed out the possibility of building two trails — one for more serious users and one for people who prefer to lollygag. Child also floated the notion of bypassing McClure Pass — long considered the midway point of the C-CBT — and instead route the trail over Schofield Pass, which he considered more direct and easier because existing tread could be utilized. Child furthermore floated the notion of building a spur off the C-CBT to Marble, which, he said, would benefit the local tourist industry. There has also been considerable heartburn regarding how public input has been solicited and integrated into the C-CBT planning process. In Gunnison County, where more than half the C-CBT would be located, things are both more chilled and further along. Of course, things are simpler in Gunnison County. Their portion of the C-CBT does not snake up a tight river valley while following a major state highway. And the amount of private land impeding the planning process is negligible compared to Pitkin County. Those are not the only factors working in Gunnison County’s favor. “The general route for the Carbondale-to-Crested Butte Trail in Gunnison County was included in the 2010 Travel Management Plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest,” said Hilary Henry, open space/creative district coordinator for the town of Crested Butte. “This has streamlined our process considerably in comparison to the White River National Forest, where the Carbondale-to-Crested Butte Trail is not included in their most recent version of travel management.” In addition, the C-CBT in Gunnison County takes advantage of existing forest trails. “From the top of McClure Pass to Erickson Springs, the trail will follow the existing Raggeds Trail,” Henry said. “The trail also makes use of several historical sections of trail. From Crested Butte, the trail will make use of the Old Kebler Wagon Trail to the top of Kebler Pass.” Very little of the C-CBT in the Crystal River Valley will follow existing trail. Two alignments up the Crystal River Valley are being considered, though there is a critical caveat. Alignment A, which in its entirety would cost about $110 million — almost half of the county Open Space and Trails (OST) Department’s projected budget over the next 20 years — basically sticks to the right-of-way of Highway 133. Alignment B, which is estimated to cost about $20 million, wanders farther afield. As Dale Will, OST acquisitions and special projects director, stressed that the proposed trail has been further broken down into 11 segments. Thus, whatever route is ultimately chosen could include, say, five segments from alignment A and six segments from alignment B. “There are two different possibilities, times 11,” Will said in December. ‘A different animal over here’ There are still gaps in the C-CBT in Gunnison County. “We have sections that are flagged and looked at,” said Kay Peterson-Cook, a long-time trail volunteer with the Paonia Ranger District of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest. “We still have GPS work to do on some sections. We spent seven days on the ground this summer and fall and we had some good ideas about where we can piece together some sections. I don’t know the exact mileages. “It’s a different animal over here,” Peterson-Cook continued. “Our part of the trail will be soft- surface singletrack that is not ADA compliant. It’s a lot easier than what they’re looking at in Pitkin County.” This is not to indicate that Gunnison County is ready for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. There is still much work to be done. “We expect to construct the trail in Gunnison County piece-by-piece as the on-the-ground route is finalized, NEPA approval is granted and resources — volunteer or paid — become available for construction,” Henry said. “At this point, we do not have a firm end date for construction, though we could see volunteer construction on pieces of the trail beginning as early as this summer. We hope to hold an open house about the alignment of the trail in Crested Butte in the first part of this year. We will release a map after the open house.” Gunnison County has also been working on its section of the C-CBT for a long time. “The Gunnison Trails Commission began working on the Carbondale to Crested Butte Trail in the early 2000s, commissioning a study from Tom Newland to study potential alignments,” Henry said. “Since then, the Gunnison Trails Commission has worked on making the trail a reality, most recently having been awarded funding from the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund in 2015 for the construction of a bridge over Anthracite Creek.” While Pitkin County is tossing around numbers like $110 million, the C-CBT in Gunnison County is a far more-humble affair. “We would be ecstatic with $200,000,” Peterson-Cook said. Pitkin County OST had a budget of $300,000 just for the initial planning of the Crystal River Valley phase of the C-CBT. A third of that came from a grant from the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund (GOCO) and the remainder came from the Pitkin BOCC. “Gunnison County and the town of Crested Butte supported Pitkin OST’s application to GOCO for a planning grant with letters and have coordinated with them on big-picture timelines and plans,” Henry said. “However, as our construction costs are expected to be much lower and our planning has occurred primarily in-house through the town of Crested Butte, the Gunnison Trails Commission and the Paonia District Ranger offices, much of our effort thus far has occurred mostly separately. “For construction, we also expect costs to be much lower in Gunnison County,” Henry continued. “We expect to use volunteers for most of the construction. We do not have a firm cost figure at this point. If the opportunity presented itself for us to work with Pitkin County on some of the more expensive parts of construction — skilled trail construction crews, bridges, etc. — we would potentially look at a joint funding application.” Peterson-Cook said that it’s possible inmates from the Delta County Correctional Facility could be utilized this summer to help construct new tread. “They love it,” she said. And while the C-CBT planning and public-input process in Pitkin County has produced much in the way of vitriol, again, things have gone smoother is Gunnison County. “We haven’t had much of a reaction to the trail so far — certainly nothing in comparison to what you all are experiencing in the Crystal River,” Henry said. “We hope to get more feedback at our open house. Right now, we don’t see any major barriers to the trail’s completion in Gunnison County.” Peterson-Cook said, however, that a little backlash may be brewing. “I would say that the trails commission has been very supportive in our part of the county,” she said. “In the last couple years, our Board of County Commissioners has indicated that they feel this trail is not as important as trails between Crested Butte and Gunnison. The Paonia Ranger District, however, is enthusiastic.” There seems to be a decent chance that Gunnison County will connect its section of the C-CBT to McClure Pass — where the trail enters Pitkin County — in the foreseeable future. In the meantime, there were references at the joint Pitkin BOCC/OST Board work session Tuesday to a process that could last 20-50 years. The term “multi-generational” was even used. The Carbondale to Crested Butte Trail is part of an ambitious trail-building effort spearheaded by a state government outfit called Colorado the Beautiful, established by Gov.
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