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What does it take to make a change to a hiking trail?
March 10, 2010 · Posted by Dave Burdick in Environment
The Boulder Reporter presents a look at trying to make a change to one of Boulder’s many trails — in this case, Goat Trail, which hooks up with the Sanitas Valley Trail a bit northwest of Boulder Community Hospital.
I don’t know much about the issue in question, but either way, making a change at all doesn’t sound all too easy… (FYI, the map on the story’s page is rotated; it is oriented so that the top part of the map points west).
They presented their opinion that the trail was too steep, erosion-prone and dangerous, and offered an option that would substitute an easier path from Hawthorne up and over the ridge.
Read on about The Great Goat Trail Debate.
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