According to several recent reports, as of 11/10/15, RAT trail conditions have deteriorated with recent weather. The north, northeast and northwest aspects of the higher terrain have a lot of snow, mud and ice. A few riders have tried Ratical and found it virtually impassable. Would suspect the same for Plagueground and upper Rat Trap. [...]
AmeriCorps crew members at work on the RAT System May 30, 2014. Biking around Ridgway gets more exciting all the time. The weekend of May 10-11, 2014, 70+ volunteers, led by VOC and BLM staff kicked off an intense, 10-week push to finish 20 miles of brand new single-track, multi-use trail just north of Ridgway. The [...]
On June 16 a crew of 8 Trail Blazers from Southwest Conservation Corps in Durango arrived in Ridgway to build trail for RAT/COPMOBA and BLM. These folks do not dither, fritter or thrash around. They shred dirt like a Sutter 300 Mini Dozer burning nitro-methane. Scott has put them to work cutting in a new [...]
ONE CONSTRUCTION GRANT IN PROGRESS, ONE AWARDED - RAT SEEKS PARKS AND TRAILS GRANT - STATE PARK RECEIVES TRAIL CONSTRUCTION GRANT Please help RAT snag a $200,000.00 parks and trails grant by contacting Amy Sharp at Sparrow Consulting. She is writing a CO Parks and Wildlife construction grant for COPMOBA-Sneffels Chapter (RAT) this year. [...]
Earlier this summer, Ridgway State Park received an award of $70,000.00 in construction grant money from the Colorado State Parks System for further development of the RAT system. On August 7, 2014 Rodney and Gordon from RAT, along with Scott Vanderplaats and Amy Sharp, met with Kirstin Copeland of Ridgway State Park and Julie Jackson [...]
BLM Trails East of U.S. 550 Current Network Overview Check out these new RAT maps generated for us by Alisa Gardiner. Click on either map to enlarge it. Right-click either link to download it to your desk top as a jpeg file. These do not include new trail constructed since [...]
Thanks to additional funding from BLM, the SCC trail crew we've had on site for the past 7 days will return for another 40 hour hitch starting on June 30th. During that same week we'll have a crew of trustees from the Delta Correctional Facility, plus the Americorps gang we've had since May 19th. By [...]
Representatives of RAT/COPMOBA met with BLM officials in the BLM's Uncompahgre Field Office on February 10, 2014. BLM has arranged for a group of trail crew leaders from Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) to organize and spearhead a 2-day work project on Ridgway Area Trails. The effort will take place on May 10 - 11, [...]
The switchback on the singletrack trail to the summit in Ridgway's Weaver Park was completed to day during the COPMOBA RAT trail work day. The trail to the summit was the first trail built in the Weaver park and was put in by the Conservation Corps. The final switchback near the summit was never built. [...]
