A year ago, Durango pedal fiend and mother of three Carol Chaffee Havrda cranked her bike 310 miles from Colorado’s southern border to Wyoming in a speedy 17 hours and 15 minutes, setting an ultracycling record. In late August this year, the 51-year-old did it again. But this time, she went 465.8 miles, traveling along U.S. 50 from the Colorado- Utah border east to the Kansas state line, in a wicked-quick 28 hours and 9 minutes. That’s an average of 16.55 miles per hour. Her west-to-east record bests the 1991 record of 32 hours and 9 minutes set by Lakewood’s Craig Lightburn.
HALL OF FAME: Induction gala Oct. 14
The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame celebrates its 30th anniversary with the induction of five members at its annual induction ceremony Oct. 14. Included in the latest crop of Coloradans recognized for their contributions to the sports of skiing and snowboarding are Durango Ski Corporation and Purgatory Mountain founder Ray Duncan, former world- record ski jumper Henry Christian Hall of Steamboat Springs, Olympic ski racer Barbara Ferries Henderson of Aspen, World Cup ski racer Mark Tache of Aspen and Steamboat Ski Area founder Jim Temple.
The black-tie affair will take place at the Marriott City Center in Denver, incorporating skiing history and nostalgia into the evening. Tickets are $150 and open to all interested parties as one of several major fundraisers for the nonprofit Colorado Ski Museum and Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame, located in Vail with a Resource Center in Golden. For more information, contact the Ski Museum at 970-476-1876 or e-mail info@skimuseum.net.
SKIING: Ride the Eagle Wind
Winter Park has taken a native approach to naming a new gondola. The Grand County resort christened its newly forged chairlift, on the backside of Parsenn Bowl, “Eagle Wind.” Seven of the new advanced-to-expert trails on the bowl’s forested backside also follow the Arapaho Tribe’s lead with the names Left Hand, Little Raven, Sharp Nose, Medicine Man, Black Coal and Thunderbird.
VOLUNTEERING: Skiing for Someone
Big City Mountaineers (BCM), a Golden-based volunteer organization devoted to mentoring urban teens during wilderness trips, recently announced the launch of Skiing Magazine’s Skiing for Someone program. With sponsorship support from The North Face, this program will take participants on multiday cat- and heli-skiing adventures throughout North America while raising money for BCM’s youth mentoring program. Participants will raise a minimum of $2,500 for BCM youth mentoring trips, which in turn will entitle them to one of five discounted backcountry trips provided by supporting guide services, including Alaska Backcountry Adventures, North Cascade Heli-Ski, Pacific Crest Snowcats, Ruby Mountain Helicopter Skiing, San Juan Ski Company, Silverton Mountain and Telluride Helitrax. Athletes from Warren Miller Entertainment and The North Face will participate in each event. Registration opens Monday for the 2007 season. To learn more, log onto www.skiingforsomeone.org or e-mail info@skiingforsomeone.org.
(COMPILED BY STAFF WRITER SCOTT WILLOUGHBY)
