Mountain Biking RV Destinations?
Not sure how many MTB'rs view this forum...but wanting to hear of your MTB RV destinations. I am 1 year back to CO and do plan on making the Moab/Fruita plans but summer is not the right time for...
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RedRocket204 wrote:
One place I love to MTB close to where I live is Buffalo Creek.
Ah yes, the Buffalo Creek area. Allison and I were mountain biking there the day of the Buffalo Creek fire. We probably rode within 1/4 mile of the campfire that started the whole thing that morning. Later in the day, we come around a corner to see trees fully involved with flames 30' to 50' high between us and where we need to go to get out. Although we were already quite tired, we rode like heck to get out of there, falling on the singletrack as we tried to ride too fast. Scared?? Oh Yeah!!
It's interesting to see that they have some of the trails back open that they had closed for several years after the fire. We've never gone back there again to ride and haven't even visited the area in a decade.
During the years I had a place in Conifer, I could look down at the Buffalo Creek, Hayman, and Hi Meadow fire scars. I can tell you it changed one thing about our camping -- we rarely have a fire, and if we do, it's a small one to warm ourselves typically in the early spring or late fall. I think if every camper had the opportunity to see a forest fire up close and feel the fear, it would stop a lot of people from having these huge bonfires by their campers at night.
