Please help me understand. Last year much was said and written about the return of wildlife, especially the elk, and some mule deer, to the Valley Floor after removal of the dairy cattle. I have seen and photographed them, and they have provided much enjoyment for me and my family, and I assume, for others. The eastern two-thirds or so of the Valley Floor was groomed for cross-country skiing. The west end was left untouched, and lo and behold, there was wildlife there. This year, the entire Valley Floor has been groomed with nordic trails, and skiers abound. What does not abound is wildlife. Is there some relationship between the number of people constantly present throughout the Valley Floor, the circumnavigating of turbocharged diesel, smoke-belching, caterpillar-tracked vehicles, and the absence of wildlife? I understood one of the factors to be honored in the consensus about Valley Floor use was the wildlife. Were there not enough miles of trails last year, so now we have to consume and devour the entire Valley Floor? Instead of Valley Floor Green, might we be considered Valley Floor Greedy?
Please enlighten me.
Sincerely,
– Ken Krueger
They will need to be stopped. God knows we dont need the water, what with our diesel xc ski prep machine we have eliminated all wildlife from the Wild and Free Forever Valley Floor, but yet it is a matter of principle.
Our principles, your money. We need a tax increase and a surcharge on your groceries as we dont want this evil bunch interfering with our XC Wet Dreams...
Ok, gotta go to Montrose to get my groceries in my Prius..the rest of you get out there and buy something taxable so we get the first 20%...
We want to ski all of it and because we write the rules, we will and are.
We appreciate you non skiiers staying off of our track and also being sure to shop in town (we drive our Subaru's to Montrose for groceries to save on the tax). The sooner you get the VF paid off then the sooner we can go engineer another condemnation in the name of Wild and Free Forever!
I twist a throttle and I'm in great shape and would take any spandex queen on when it comes to downright physical shape. Moto has kept my body young over the years, just like xc skiin
If you want a laugh, hike out on the VF in your snow shoes while the activist is plowing his very own VF with his machine..the guy pops a head gasket..seems we are not allowed on "his" Valley Floor...
Now, if only he would exempt the rest of us from the sales tax surcharge on the VF debt....
That said, the skinny skiers have been remarkably effective in insuring their interests prevail on the Valley Floor. By seeding Open Space with their organization's members and directors and opposing anyone and anything that might interfere with their take over of the VF in winter regardless of costs they've proven how effective an organization can be in capturing a community resource for their own at virtually zero cost to them.
I thought that some of the VF was super sensitive...but you seem to have plowed down the whole thing with your machine...
What gives...
Practice should be 4 days a week to spread people out more. Races on friday and saturday nites and sunday as you suggest.
You can't keep one track solely for yourselves at team honda. There will need to be a plethora of tracks for varying abilities and styles.
We over here at Team Yamaha think this would be jiggy.
You people in spandex need to know that that stuff's just nasty.
leave us alone out here on the VF!..Thanks, Chumps for paying for our sport's stadium everytime you buy groceries!....and for all you touring nordic skiiers..keep out of our way...
We rule!
Over here at Team Honda we were thinking that we could build ourselves a motorcross track from the Non-XC-Designated-Exclusive-Use-For-The-Valley-Floor period-basically from April 1 through Thanksgiving...
Moto's on Sunday, Practice on Tuesday and Thursdays.
No one else allowed to use our track or criticize us in any fashion, etc.
Jiggy?
The Wild and Free Forever campaign now just looks like a hypocritical ploy to "save" land for the benefit of Telluride recreationalists. Skiers should be allowed to ski the Valley Floor...without the help of groomers.
Please temper your temper - your need to pave the entire Valley Floor so you can prance around in spandex was not why the community purchased the VF.
It was supposed to be Wild and Free Forever and not your publicly supported private gym-
Get Real Yourself.