Conference ssdevo::colorado

    Well, since this note has been dead for about 5 years, it must be time
    for a question...does anybody have a good route to CXO3 from the
    Briargate/Chapel hills area? 
    
    I've been looking at the city parks/trails map I have, and it looks
    like I would have to go a fair distance out of my way to avoid certain
    death on/around woodmen/academy/i25.
    
    Thanks,
    
    -Robert

    If you have a mtn bike, I'd go south on Chapel Hills
    drive cross Briargate thru to the Falcon Estates development
    and scramble across Academy on Fuller or the one a block over from
    it.  Go west to the end of whichever road (to Vincent, I think) and
    then cross Woodmen at the Hardees light, cut thru Current (or
    just go down Vincent).  From Dublin and Vincent, Vincent continues
    south to an apparent deadend, but a jeep track continues down to
    the frontage road off the very north-end of Nevada.  
    	Then either:
    
    	1) Cross Nevada immediately and skirt the north end of 
            the church's wire fence, cross the creek on an old
            cement dam beneath the interstate, go north under I25 on
            the monument spine trail.  Cut thru the parking lots west
            of the trail and emerge at Dabling near Rockrimmon.
    or
    
        2) Continue beyond the south end of the frontage road to a
           road side jeep track, cross under or over Nevada at the
           apartment complex, cut thru the complex and pick up the
           monument spine trail spur at the pedestrian bridge.  Cross 
    	   the bridge
           and you're on Dabling.  Go under I25 and either head
           the normal way up Rockrimmon, or immediately wack west
           cross the train tracks, behind the Pro-Rodeo, and up the road
           to the Marriott.  Find a little trail behind the SW corner
           of the Marriott that joins the DEC driveway near its
           highest point.
    
    If this sounds too bizarre (which it seems now to me, on
    rereading what I wrote), wait til the bike path is continuous up
    to the Academy and go north and pick up the Santa Fe trail there and
    go South to Dabling.  

    Brian,
    
    
    I'll give that a shot...when I lived closer to Dublin I had previously 
    gone straight down Dublin to Vincent and taken the route you described 
    from there, so that part shouldn't be too bad.  
    
    Thanks,
    
    -Robert