City of Boulder, CO Accessible Trails, 16 Apr 2013

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From YouTube: White Rocks via Wheelchair with Closed Captioning

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Wheelchair accessible trail video showing the terrain at White Rocks Trail with closed captioning. http://osmp.org

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With the white rocks trailhead right now, great trail, just off of Valmont across the road from North Taylor trail great place to go if you're in a wheelchair or a person with disabilities, it's really flat trail, easy to moderate all the way it's about 1.25 miles out so 2.5, then I'm back a couple spots are a little difficult. There's one at the beginning. That's eleven percent grade for about twenty feet. Sometimes the trail gets washed out there. So you get a double cross slope, there's a railroad track that you have to cross over.

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That's pretty easy and a bridge that's fairly easy to, but it's in a great place. It's in a habitat conservation area. No dogs are allowed. There's a huge diversity of species out here. Sometimes you'll see a red tail hawk by another tall. Bald eagles live out here, great blue herons, a lot of different waterfowl, so keep your eyes peeled. There's a trail between the two trails, the North teller trail and the white rocks trail. Pretty difficult, though so. I'd recommend parking down here in the two disabled spots that are available.

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Let's go for a hike, so here's the really difficult section. It's kind of a funky cross slope like eleven percent whoa.

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Maybe try to stay on the right side of the trail.

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Once you get past this, the trail is really easy.

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Who ate it kind of gets washed out. Sometimes I picks it, and it's a little bit better.

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This is the milkweed plant beautiful plant, the flowers, bloom, real, pretty it's where that monarch caterpillar lives and is raised. Basically, it lives off the silicate, this white milky stuff from the plant where it gets its name and it becomes poisonous so that when it's a monarch butterfly it's poisonous to birds, any animals that try to eat it.

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This is a steep little section about 9% 13 feet. The crust, though, there's no tux yet.

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There's some difficult sections on the trail like this, where you're actually having to skirt over some grass. It's real thick, it's kind of hard to push through, sometimes with your shoes.

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Ran right here, that's a good a little bit of a whip about one you don't Rob today, oh look at sched, Gary, hey Jennifer! Is he going he? He works for our GIS Department, making maps doing a really good job, making that accessible trails.

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Make a movie yeah.

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Are you doing out here today well.

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I'm trying to learn more about my local bird species, not something that's not been one of my strong suits lately so I heard this is a great place to come. This habitat conservation area has a ton of different wetlands and riparian areas and all these trees, and apparently the birds love this spot. So so far, I haven't had a lot of luck. I have been here that long, but I've seen a snapping turtle. Could you guys pass that on your way.

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Oh yeah, that was cool huh I'm.

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Coming this side and I've seen a couple red tails I believe that red-tail Hawks, tossing around together inside believe copulated I'm, not sure possible.

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The bunnies lots of babies, yeah, there's a cute great.

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Seeing you good luck, finding birds out here thanks.

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Tell stories have a great height enjoy the rescue day. Alright,.

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See you the office.

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The end here you get to a slope: that's about a six percent grade. Seven percent for about 50 feet, not too bad I think it might get up to eight percent to hear.

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And then we get to a little bridge.

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Get you a bridge at the end here little slope and we are almost to the end of the trail unless you're really strong and crazy.

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The trail goes up, the side of the hill here keeps winding pretty steep, pretty tough might be able to do it on a hand, cycle type thing, and there you go picks you up to the east trail and that's the end of the white rocks trail.

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