Gain a sense for the high alpine with RFOV and local artists as we experience Linkins Lake through photography, watercolor, and pencil sketching.

In the 3rd year of Lake Christine Fire restoration efforts, RFOV will combine an educational hike and community project. Volunteers will help control invasive species that have colonized the post-fire landscape. Potential opportunities for reseeding of native species have yet-to-be-determined.

Having completed our trail maintenance, we’ll hike to a great location for angling to gain an understanding of RFOV’s outdoor partners and how trails create recreational opportunities for many segments of our outdoors culture.

Our first public hike of the Grizzly Creek Burn Area, hosted on behalf of the Glenwood Canyon Restoration Alliance, will survey the beginning of the Grizzly Creek Trail. Hikers can expect to develop a new (post-fire) sense of the trail, learn about the many steps of renewal, and how to get involved in volunteering!

There’s plenty of ways to use Red Hill, but how can you also participate in the trails? Join RFOV and Independence Run & Hike for an evening run and education about what volunteers have accomplished over the years – and are still perfecting – at the Red Hill Trails Network!

Hiking from the Red Hill entrance, we’ll develop our perspective with the help of a local Carbondale painter, and in so doing, better understand our sense of place, how our community intersects with outdoors culture, and how stewardship is linked to our imagination.