Boulder Banditos

Saturday July 3rd falls on a holiday weekend with lots of adventures planned by bandits. Thus this 7/3 will be a “free” run weekend with no designated route leader.

Suggestions:
1. Local: Mesa Trail at dawn. Watch the sunrise and finish as most hikers are starting. Make sure you don’t shower for a few days prior so you pass hikers with glam! Be cautious at the Bear Canyon pool just beyond Mesa as mountain lions have wild drinking parties there until the early hours.

2. Semi-Local: Back to Golden Gate State Park. Try the Rifleman Campground trailhead and head out to Windy Peak. Lots of gnarly uphills for cursing practice. If you have time, get your bandit self through a loop that includes Frazer meadow – peaceful self practice.

3. Head west: 4th of July and Hessie are always good bets or up Arapahoe pass is always a treat. Go early; avoid being on top beyond Noon. Lightning + Bandits = Bad, (but not the good kind of bad-ass “bad”)

4. Epic: Drive or ride (yes your bike) up (super early or camp?) to Rocky Mountain National Park to Bear Lake trailhead. Run up to Flattop mountain then across the Divide’s National Scenic trail to the Green Mountain trailhead enjoying Granite Falls along the way. Feeling good? – side trip to Haynach Lake or skip dinner in Grand and run back to Bear. Sounds good to me…

Whatever you do, have fun and be safe!
Bandita Drake

Cheers!

Greetings,

This Saturday, we’ll meet at Chautauqua Ranger Station at 6am, for a 6:15am departure to Walker Ranch. The Walker Ranch Trail is a nice 8.2 mile loop.

See you then!

Let the season begin! HAH!

Our first weekend training run for Imogene

Hi folks,

We seem to want to meet earlier, so let’s meet at Savers in Table Mesa at 7:15am.

Cheers,

Greetings,

The Saturday morning run this week is at Golden Gate State Park. The run will be a 2 hour romp. We’ll meet in the Savers parking lot off of South Broadway in Table Mesa at 7:45am to carpool. Email the Banditos Yahoo Group if you plan on joining us!

Hope to see you all then!

Hi Banditos,

Meet at Marshall Mesa TH at the corner of 93 and Eldorado springs turnoff at 6pm for our first official Monday night run.

Hi all,

Let’s meet at Doudy Draw TH in Eldo at 8am on Saturday. Lots of options from there. Plan on 50 minutes, 1:50 minutes, or more. Should be fun.

Cheers,

–Jennifer