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For the third consecutive year, PWV has been selected as the outdoor focused nonprofit to receive a donation from Oboz Footwear and Brown’s Shoe Fit, as part of the Fort Collins Oboz Trail Experience. This month-long event, occurring this September, is encouraging hikers, runners and walkers to complete as many of the Front Range's selected trails as one can during the month. Unlock rewards by completing any of the 22 Promoted Trails and everyone who completes even just one trail will be entered to win one of five pairs of Oboz shoes at the end of the Experience. The more trails you complete, the more entries you'll receive.
As part of the program, Oboz has designed a “team category”. While your results are tracked individually, you can join the PWV team by clicking on PWV during registration. Having such a team will allow us to reach out to one another and hike together.
This is a wonderful community event and we are honored to be part of it. All the businesses supporting this event have commented on the uniqueness of the approach. So, sign up by going to this registration link.
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PWV recently worked with teens from the Rocky Mountain Conservancy for bridge building on the Beaver Creek Trail. ABC Denver7 continues their interest in our restoration work and aired two clips. Take a look:
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PWV continued to pursue its mission of assisting the Canyon Lakes Ranger District programs managing and protecting the wilderness and backcountry areas in 2022. In support of our core effort of patrolling trails and engaging the public, we contacted more than 9500 trail users while completing over 800 patrols.
These contacts allow us the opportunity to support backcountry users with advice, information and education on Leave No Trace practices and for USFS regulations. We continued our efforts to maintain trails last year at a high level, removing over 2100 trees from trails and clearing brush and limbs from over 2700 feet of trails.
Furthermore, in 2022 restoration efforts focused on erosion control on the trails, installing check dams, culverts and drains. PWV worked to improve drainage on 10 miles of 8 of our trails. We held numerous workdays including 4 days with volunteer members of the public in addition to the 12 workdays with PWV members and 8 days with a hired work crew. This amounted to 1838 hours of trail work to restore the trails after the 2020 Cameron Peak fire.