rubicon trail. change in route for loon lake entrance

[Dan-H]

here is an email from the Friends of the Rubicon email list.


From: Randy Burleson <randii@4x4wire.com> Add Address
Subject: [fotr] Help Required
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:48:09 -0700
To: <fotr@moab.off-road.com>
Reply-To: fotr@moab.off-road.com
CC: <lance@4x4wire.com> <jstewart@cox.net>
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I need a full-court press from you all to help disseminate information on the Rubicon bypass... after talking with Del, FOTR is fully behind and fully aware of the re-route, and has been involved from the get-go... what we're missing is involvement from the Forest Service in the form of a press release.

This sort of thing can blow up fast and backfire (oh no, they are closing our trail!), so please help spread the word that FOTR was involved from planning to execution, and that this is a GOOD RESULT. We do lose access to a chunk of trail, but we gain access to a much better section of trail over slabs and boulders, courtesy of the Rubicon Oversight Committee (Del sits on this committee) pulling the various groups and landowners together. Best
of all, IMHO, is that a section of the trail which the Forest Service WOULD NOT recognize as an OHV trail (long political discussion, here, suffice i to say for now that this is NOT a section recognized as an 'unmaintained county road') will be rerouted, and that the new section of trail should be a slam-dunk for recognition as a formal OHV route... and that's a magical definition for the forest service -- it puts us in an even better position for continued access and really helps with potential FS funding -- and at
last, I believe this allows us to get the FD Law Enforcement Officers onto this section of the land, with no strings attached.

http://www.4x4wire.com/access/news/f...ess_rel_10_02/
(map still coming - up by noon today 10/16)

If anyone has any questions, please post them here...

Getting this information out is especially important since Pirate Cleanup is almost upon us -- we need to make sure everyone who comes up there knows where the new section of trail is and does not attempt to run the old section of trail, or tear down the bypasses. We're a little behind on communications, so a united front of consistent information will help massively.

Feel free to share this information ANYWHERE, but please let Kelly/Lance broach it on the Pirate Bulletin Board -- I think that will be most effective, coming from Webdaddy/mommy -- and have contacted them in advance to make this happen.

Please help spread the word...

Randii

Randy Burleson
Managing Editor
www.4x4Wire.com


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[Dan-H]

I was at a meeting where the trail was sketched out, but I have not seen firsthand the new stretch.

The intent is to bypass an section that is seasonlly very muddy and has alot of erosion and tends to invite yahoo's booney hopping into a meadow, so IMO this is a good thing.

I do not have GPS co-ords, but expect they will be available this weekend.

- Dan

[Dan-H]

This topo map shows an approximation of the re-route. The base map is borrowed without permission (sorry!) from the excellent site at: http://www.rubicontrail.com and will be rweplaced shortly.
In the map, you see the northwest corner of Pleasant/Loon Lake, where Ellis Creek empties into it:
* bold brown line is the official Rubicon Road that connects Wentworth Springs and Rubicon Springs
* dotted red line is the trail between Loon Lake and Ellis Creek, it extends off the bottom of the map to the Loon Lake dam spillway
* orange line is the section of trail that will be closed off
* green line is an old section of trail that didnt't see a lot of use
* short purple/blue line is the new trail FOTR put in
* short red line headed northwest is the dirt road to McKinstry Lake