While the moto crowd and mountain bikers have reticently joined forces in the past, kinda, in central Colorado it’s the gas-powered crowd that approached the pedalers for a change, after fear that a section of the White River National Forest was about to get shuttered to them — and to cyclists. At issue is whether, if/when the proposed Hidden Gems Wilderness goes through, it closes the area to all forms of “mechanical” travel, be it motorized or human powered. So for added leverage the Colorado Backcountry Trail Riders Alliance got together with a local mountain bike group to lobby the Forest Service for a seat at the table. They aren’t asking for the prevention of Wilderness, but they are asking for singletrack routes that let them access some of the Roaring Fork Valley.

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