By Seth Boster
seth.boster@gazette.com
Susan Davies, the executive director for the Trails and Open Space Coalition, said the landowner was in negotiations with the forest service for months in a land dispute before the landowner erected a sign that notified hikers that the strip of trail would close starting July 15. It’s unfortunate and these things happen from time to time, Davies said.
Davies organization is invested in creating Ring the Peak Trail, a pathway of trails that would circumnavigate Pikes Peak. The 50-mile trail is almost complete except for a small section that needs renovation near Horsethief Park Trail.
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A group of hikers, Manitou Springs residents and Colorado Springs community members are banding together to clean up the forest by removing garbage and fire hazards from homeless encampments along the base of the mountains.
The group, Pikes Peak Clean Up Crew, formed on Facebook shortly after the Incline fire ignited in a homeless encampment between Barr Trail and The Manitou Incline in early October and burned several acres.
Trevor Becker, the creator of the Facebook group, lives near the Incline and was at home when he saw plumes of smoke billowing off the mountain.
“It was pretty scary,” Becker said. “And I have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old and it really hit home. So that was really the motivation to go in there and remove those fire hazards.”