A gigantic B-52 greets you as you enter the Air Force Academy

I recently met up with a friend and rode in Colorado Springs at the Air Force Academy.  The Falcon Trail is a fun rolling 12 miles trail with twisty descents that circles the AFA campus.  We started just north of the football stadium and spun one lap out in the clock wise direction and then turned around and did the second lap in the other direction. I highly recommend hitting the trail in both directions. The trail is pretty well marked, but here is the GPS of the ride just in case.  I highly recommend the ride to anyone who lives on the Front Range.

The guards will check your car and I.D. car at the gate, so be sure to leave your IEDs and Koran at home!  ;)

The Falcon Trail circles the Air Force Academy campus

Pro Cycling Tour is planned for August '11

http://durangoherald.com/sections/News/2010/08/05/Pro_cycling_tour_to_return_to_Colorado/

After visiting the Crankworx Slopestyle event this past weekend in Winter Park, CO, the Turner boys got home and started working on their own slopestyle course.  Check out the ramp they made all on their own!

http://picasaweb.google.com/bteschne/BikeTripToFantaSFolly#

Family and Friends,

I hope you enjoy these pictures. I did another bike trip to the coast for a weekend away from the mine. Four hours of bike riding each way. I figure it’s about 50 miles trip each direction. I left Tarkwa on saturday morning and returned on sunday afternoon. Highlights of the trip include the kids getting coconuts out of the trees. It was totally worth the inflated prices (and the further inflation due to lack of change) to see the kid climb up the tree and rummage around for the coconuts. Unfortunately, the kid wore a green shirt and therefore blended it quite will with the palm leaves, but if you look very carefully, you can see him way up at the top. Fortunately, he made it down from there safely. You will also see photos of the little hut on stilts that I got for the night. Beach front view, nice little bed w/ mosquito net, cost me about $15 for the night. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Now its back to work…

Ben T

Ben T enjoying the view

-Micah J

For years Denver Water has invited the public to recreate on its Waterton Canyon property. Unfortunately, over the next 18 months it will be necessary to close the area to recreational use so that the canyon road can be used for its main function – to serve as an access road for maintaining Strontia Springs Reservoir. This maintenance project will allow Denver Water to continue to serve its customers throughout the Front Range. At the completion of this project Denver Water will reopen the canyon and once again invite the public to enjoy this unique and beautiful area.

Waterton Canyon is scheduled to be closed from Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 until Sunday, Dec. 3, 2010, and again from Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 until Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. There is more than 1 million cubic yards of sediment in the reservoir, and this project is slated to remove 625,000 cubic yards. If this project is ahead of schedule, Denver Water may extend the project into 2012 to remove as much of the 1 million cubic yards of sediment as possible in order to try and avoid future near-term projects. Any schedule changes will be posted to these web pages.

http://www.denverwater.org/Recreation/WatertonCanyon/FAQs/

Courtesy of Lisa Travis….

So, we were going to take advantage of the extra light and ride White Ranch!