Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Archives

RFOV prepares for Marble Stewardship Extravaganza

by Myki Jones June 14, 2023November 17, 2023

Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) will host its second Marble Stewardship Extravaganza on June 24-25. This project focuses on trail and restoration projects in popular recreation areas of Marble, including […]

News, Uncategorized

RFOV: Stewards of land and community

by Myki Jones May 24, 2023November 17, 2023

On April 11, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) announced its summer and fall community projects. The Carbondale-based nonprofit promotes stewardship of public lands through volunteer projects, events and other educational […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Trail Notes: A community’s love for wilderness

by Raleigh Burleigh September 28, 2022November 17, 2023

By Calen Vickers Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers With increased funding opportunities brought about by the Great American Outdoors Act of 2020, many nonprofit organizations have been able to grow and […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Trail Notes: Know what you like

by Will Grandbois August 3, 2022November 17, 2023

By Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Special to The Sopris Sun Nature Note: Finding the new in the familiar Even in a place as beautiful and varied as the Roaring Fork […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Trail Notes: Alpine dreamin’

by Will Grandbois July 6, 2022November 17, 2023

By Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Special to The Sopris Sun Too many people? Now that the snow’s gone from everywhere but the highest peaks, everyone’s getting out to see spectacular […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Trail Notes: It’s spring, why not plant trees?

by Will Grandbois June 15, 2022November 17, 2023

By Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Special to The Sopris Sun It’s always fun to put something into the ground and watch it grow, but Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) only […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Trail Notes: It’s stewardship season

by Will Grandbois May 25, 2022November 17, 2023

By Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Special to The Sopris Sun Nature Note: Creative destruction Two weeks ago, while Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers and U.S. Forest Service staff were scouting Glenwood […]

Columns, News, Opinion, Uncategorized

Red Hill options grow with usage

by Raleigh Burleigh May 11, 2022November 17, 2023

By Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Red Hill — its trails and views — has become one the most popular spots around to enjoy a vista of Mount Sopris. Last year, […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Trail Notes returns for 2022 season

by Will Grandbois April 20, 2022November 17, 2023

By Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers staff We live in a special place, but it’s the people that make our region truly unique. The outdoors culture that’s so central to our […]

News, Uncategorized

GOCO grant boosts RFOV prospects

by Ken Pletcher January 12, 2022November 17, 2023

In early December 2021, Basalt-based Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) announced that it had received a $298,490 grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), the state-run agency that invests money from […]