What we've done

In 2007 the Trailblazers documented 655 volunteer hours to the South Platte Ranger District of the US Forest Service, and an additional 42 hours to Jefferson County Open Space.  Those 655 volunteer hours amounts to $12,779 in volunteer time contribution to the USFS resulting in 2.7 miles of completed new trails in our first year, including "Buffalo Burn" trail.

While our objective in 2008 was a conservative increase in our documented volunteer hours to 747, this was at year’s end exceeded by nearly 26% with 938 total volunteer hours.  930 of those hours were dedicated to USFS in the Pike National Forest a volunteer time value of $18,833.  In the BCRA, the Trailblazers have been successful in completing “Redskin Creek” trail while concurrently getting approval for and subsequently initiating construction on a new trail project, “Nice Kitty”, of over four miles.

Our volunteers’ efforts in 2009 have been incredibly successful!  The challenges of “Boardwalk” and switchback materials and tools transportation to the field, and construction, were met with highly improvised solutions from our volunteers.  At the end of the season, an outstanding 996 Volunteer Hours were documented to USFS including an additional .8 miles of new singletrack requiring significant armoring through very challenging rocky terrain.

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