have we established a place to stage our runs since people will be coming from all over?
My suggestion would be to meet up at the El Dorado Outpost gas station to buy trail passes and gather everyone up. Head out as one large group to the end of Dutch John Rd and break out into our smaller group runs and get organized from there. The outpost can be a very busy place in the mornings with day trippers coming in and meeting their friends and what not in the parking lot and it can be difficult to get everyone in the group they need to be in and to the trails without getting seperated between the outpost and trail head. Organizing at the trail head at the end of dutch john rd. will also give us direct access to an easy trail and a hard trail so groups can part ways in opposite directions and meet back up later in the day as they meet going opposite directions. That trail head is also the most remote trail head and is generally pretty open so we can get a big group photo op without having much interference from traffic.
For the easy trail run I would take this route.
Falls Dam - Wolfs Den - Slab Pile - Rocky Mountain Loop -Saw Mill - Slab Pile - Wolfs Den - (depending on comfort level) Dutch John - then work over to Daniel to Run the final trail of the day with the hard group
For the intermediate
Falls Dam - Dutch John - Rocky Mountain Loop - Saw Mill - Slab Pile - Dutch John - Falls Dam - Dicky Bell - then work over to Daniel to Run the final trail of the day with the hard group
For the Hard group
Dickey Bell - Daniel(down and back) - rocky mountain loop - saw mill - slab pile - dutch john( down and back) - dickey bell (opposite direction) - back to Daniel to ride with the rest of the group.
Those runs will hit most of the park and figuring for a hour stop for eating lunch should take most of the day and be done for dinner. If anyone would like to prerun those runs with me in the coming weeks let me know. I could go for getting the tires dusty.
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