Bouldering Trail

The western portion of the trail connects a number of popular bouldering areas. The trail happens to start on Eldorado Canyon State Park property, possibly travels over private property, and ends on City of Boulder Open Space.

A metaphorical picture of this trail:

Scope

From scope

From scope

From scope

From scope

From scope

The view through this thing is fantastic. I was checking out individual handholds on Redgarden wall climbing routes.

Happy Mule

Sad Mule:

From welding

Weld a bolt and some washers together to hold the sad headlight on the sad mule:

From welding

Voila! Happy headlight, mule so happy it shines!

From welding

Sander!

The sand spreader was having a hard time spinning. Upon closer inspection, there are three lube points:

From plow

Much better.

NCOBS rocks.

On Thursday afternoon of last week, I got a curious phone call. A group of instructors from the North Carolina Outward Bound School are on the "service bus". They're driving across the country, doing good deeds and sneaking in some climbing, rafting, hiking, ...

They were looking for a service project here in the park. Talk about coincidences - a new memorial telescope arrived last week, and it was exactly the right time to build a platform for it. The coincidences continued - just as the crew arrived at the trailhead, we were met by the family for whom we were building the memorial telescope.

From The Service Bus Team

From ncobs

From The Service Bus Team

This is apparently the proper way to use a McCloud.

From ncobs

It was a remarkable experience to have them here. They did great work, they were incredibly enthusiastic, and they set the place on fire with good vibes. Joy.

Random Scenery

Combine a resource technician, an iPhone, and some beautiful sunrises in the canyon, and you get some mediocre photographs:

From scenery

From scenery

From scenery

Watershed School

Yesterday I was treated to a visit from the high school students of the Watershed School. I'm trying to rope some of them into revamping our recycling project.

From watershed

They've been studying water in the west this semester, and have spent a significant amount of time learning about water law. As part of their studies they've worked with Denver Water. I chaperoned them to the Denver Water diversion dam, and spent some time talking about how this State Park views our water resources.