By Tom Purvis When spring came to Salida back in 2004, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced their plan to conduct a travel management planning process on their managed lands in the Upper Arkansas Valley. The trails that were available near Salida were few, rough, and not constructed sustainably. To say they were constructed at all was a stretch. But we loved them and feared having the BLM declare them unsustainable and close them. A group of trail lovers—mostly mountain bikers but not all—came together to defend our meager trails. We wanted to at least have a chance to ...
