If he’s not working, you can typically find Steven Kaminski on the trails — but pretty much exclusively on the trails. erie-720.jpg "Pretty much just stick to mountain biking these days and being in the mountains on the trails, singletrack, "Kaminski said, "My main reason is to avoid cars and traffic. … I’ve been hit by a car before on a bike and it’s scary."
In 2007, Kaminski got hit by a car while racing and separated his shoulder. As a result, he avoids riding on streets, and therefore rarely rides from Erie — or his home in Louisville — to Boulder.
"You kind of have to maneuver, get on the road, get off the road, get on the bike path, back on the road," Kaminski said describing the paths.
But now, that path will get a whole lot easier. This fall Boulder County commissioners approved a new project — Boulder to Erie Regional Trail , or BERT. Tonya Luebbert has been working on BERT for the last five years as the Regional Trails Planner for the Boulder County Community Planning & Permitting Department.
"I’ve put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this, and it’s exciting that we got the go-ahead," Luebbert said. trail-copy.jpg The BERT trail will turn an out-of-service RTD railway into a trail-way. It will create 8-and-a-half miles of trail that will connect Boulder to Erie and everything in between with a goal of not only connecting the city and town but making the parks along the way […]
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