Lower Loop to get another spur

Call it the Budd Light

Making a great trail even better, the Crested Butte Land Trust is ready to add another link in the Lower Loop system west of town. The Land Trust is proposing a single track on the “Jucha Parcel” that would allow bikers to have single track all the way to the western edge of the system.

Land Trust president Keith Bauer went to the Crested Butte town council on Tuesday, September 7 to get their approval for the proposal. He explained the 2,300-foot extension would tie in with the existing single track coming from the Peanut Mine parcel and would be above the old rail grade and below the Upper Lower Loop. It would start at the Y confluence of the Upper Lower and the Lower Lower.
“The new trail would give bikers the opportunity to enjoy single track the entire distance of the Lower Loop, and it would create a safer experience by helping to separate the many users on the old rail grade of this trail system,” Bauer wrote in a letter to the council.
Bauer said the extension trail might even be built sooner rather than later. “CBMBA [Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association] has indicated they’d try to set aside a half a workday maybe even this fall to do the work,” Bauer said.
“So we can call it the Budd Light,” quipped councilperson John Wirsing in reference to the Budd trail constructed last spring in the same area.