almost back from being in Colorado for 2mo

andrewhove

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I'm flying back monday from a 2 month trip to Colorado. My family comes to fort Collins Colorado every other year for two months in the summer. I just had a few observations I wanted to share.

1. There are a rediculous number of places to ride here. I stayed in a friends cabin for the last week. It was in a remote canyon called puma canyon and I kid you not there were over 100 miles of forest service maintained offroad trails just in the canyon. didn't have my yota but had a four wheeler and you could have litteraly gone for a whole weekend and not seen half of it. Despite a huge number of greenies out here why do they have so many more trails. We are talking thousands of legal miles of trail across the state. I had a blast getting to see so much of remote Colorado via these trails.

2. There are a ton of rust free cars here and I can't figure out why. first generation toys and cj's with not a spot of rust on them. seems like there is more salt here don't know why they wouldn't rust. any ideas? also many 4x4's are way cheaper here. checked craigslist and there are so many toyotas for 40% cheaper than I could find any in NC.

3. I love being away from tourists and away from civilization and Colorado makes that so easy. We fly fished a bunch and I loved getting out of the way and on streams that I saw only a few people a day on.

that's all for now pictures to come.
 
Sounds like a blast. I noticed the same thing about trails when I was out there a few summers ago. I think population density has a lot to do with it.
 
andrew the bike trails are calling us! ill give you a shout this week about your dads BMW
 
Population density is a big part of it, but so is the fact that the state owns half of it. Most of the whole county I grew up in was national forest. Most vehicles there are 4 wd. that's why they are so cheap. It's a necessity. As for rust, they use very little salt there. Mostly sand and cinders. They're getting into Magnesium chloride for the interstates nowadays.
 
Metto said:
andrew the bike trails are calling us! ill give you a shout this week about your dads BMW
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Dude I got a new bike this summer. It's a blast I've been bikeing a bunch can't wait to go some time.


Good to know about the rust. I think the state owned land is a good idea (I'm not a communist don't worry) It just makes a lot of sense to have public use land. I was talking to a farmer that was out on one of the trails and he was telling me how many uses the land had. He personally leases 60000 acres for his cattle but at the same time people can still use the trails through it. people can also lease it to log it. It just seems like a good compormise between farmers, offroaders, hunters, fisherman, and even environmentalists because the land is so well managed. I wonder why they don't do it as much here.
 
Basically it was a tim deal.
The west wasnt really settled until the mid 1800s, by that time the east had been inhabited by whites for 300 years. By the time we realized the land was limitless and we needed to protect some of it the only land left was out west. So the BLM was formed, blah blah blah the rest can be read about in boos..
 
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