June 17 | Our first-ever Giveback event - a RFOV trail work day! Get outside and giveback by supporting one of our member non-profits - Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers - and helping to keep our trails awesome.
The trailwork will take place at Light Hill (behind BHS). Commit to four hours of trail work (installing a sign, building a bench, and installing a culvert). This is great opportunity to network with fellow Basalt Chamber members while helping our community. Be sure to invite all indivi
To our neighbors and friends,
Wildfire season is fast approaching, and with it comes the memory of 2020’s record breaking fires. The Grizzly Creek Fire, in particular, hit close to home. Thankfully no lives were lost and no homes were burned, but the fire closed Interstate 70 for 13 days, damaged water and power infrastructure, threatened several neighborhoods of Glenwood Canyon and burned through some of the most iconic landscapes of the Western Slope.
Just 10 days after the Grizzly Creek Fire ignited, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers launched the Glenwood Canyon Restoration Alliance, knowing that collaboration would be key. Already, restoration efforts have begun in the Hanging Lake and Grizzly Creek areas. To ensure the continued success of our efforts, we’re now launching an ambitious $100,000 fundraising campaign.
A mountain biker rides past the new trailhead at Red Hill in Carbondale on Monday, April 26, 2021. A new trailhead on the north side of the network could ease crowding later this summer. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Work will begin this month on a short trail that will have big implications for hikers and bikers in the midvalley.
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, the Red Hill Council and Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association are teaming to perform work on the new Sutey Ranch Trail that the Bureau of Land Management says will be “optimized for bike riders, but also open to foot traffic.”
Chelsea Self / Post Independent
For Ken Murphy and some of his H2O Ventures crew, the return trip to the Hanging Lake Rest Area this week was almost surreal.
Preparing for hiker visits to resume Saturday, it was the first time they had set foot at the rest area along Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon that serves as base camp for the Hanging Lake Trail since they were forced to hastily evacuate the afternoon of Aug. 10, 2020, when the Grizzly Creek Fire broke out.
The famous Hanging Lake sits untouched after the Grizzly Creek Fire swept through Glenwood Canyon last summer.
Chelsea Self / Post Independent