CLIMBING
Thursday
Learn to lead climb indoors; Boulder Rock Club class conducted every third Thursday of the month, $35 for members, $45 for nonmembers; 7-9 p.m.
303-447-2804 or
Friday-Saturday
Multipitch Climbing Clinic; in Estes Park; Colorado Mountain School clinic includes educational evening at the Boulder Rock Club before an exciting day of multipitch climbing; $270.
800-836-4008 or
Oct. 20
Top Rope Anchor Clinic; in Boulder; first step to being an independent climber is learning how to set up top ropes, and Colorado Mountain School clinic teaches how to do it well; $170.
800-836-4008 or
Belay Basics; Boulder Rock Club course conducted first and third Saturday of each month; participants receive free one-week membership plus free gear rentals; $32 for members, $40 for nonmembers, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 303-447-2804 or
Saturday-Oct. 26
Mountaineering seminar; Colorado Mountain School’s seven-day course turns novices into solid intermediate mountaineers; $1,475. 800-836-4008 or
CYCLINGMountain and roadToday-Wednesday,
Oct. 24
Slide show; in Fort Collins (Oct. 16), Boulder (Oct. 17) and Denver (Oct. 24); Rick Price presents slides of pioneering bicycle tourists Annie Londonderry (first woman to pedal around the world, in the 1890s) and Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell (first American bicycle tourists in Italy, in 1884); free admission; 7 p.m.. 800-685-4565 or
HIKING/
BACKPACKING
Oct. 20
Autumn nature hike; at South Platte Park, 3000 W. Carson Drive; see beautiful fall colors and learn about leaves; 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $5 to $25; children underyounger than 16 must be accompanied by a registered adult. 303-730-1022 or
RUNNING
Saturday
Peace Officers’ Memorial 5K Run/3K Walk; at Memorial Park/Prospect Lake in Colorado Springs; $20 for 5K run; 8 a.m.
10K run, 5K run and 1-mile walk; at Compass Montessori School in Golden; proceeds will help complete construction of the playground for the Golden Campus Children’s House; $20 for adults, $15 for students, $50 for families three or more; 9 a.m.
Harvest Lights 2-miler; starting at North Lake Park in Loveland; course illuminated by torches, lights; $15 to $20 for adults, $10 to $15 for 14 and under; 6 p.m.
Sunday
Run for RMSEL; run/walk to benefit the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning at Cook Park in Denver; race options include a 5K run/walk, 1-mile family fun run and cocoa dash for kids 9 and younger; online registration only, closes Oct. 19; $10 for child cocoa dash, $15 for adult 1-mile, $20 for adult 5K.
Susan Maier Gastric Cancer 5K run/walk; at Village of Castle Pines; 9 a.m.
Friday, Oct. 26
Scream Scram 5K run/walk/nordic walk and 100-meter Spooky Sneak; at Washington Park in Denver; race in costume and raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; $23 adults ($27 on race day), $15 children 12 and younger and seniors 60 and older ($19 on race day); 6 p.m. race, 5 p.m. nordic walking training.
Oct. 27
Eerie Erie 10K run and 5K run/racewalk; at Erie Middle School; $23 for adults, $18 for children 12 and younger and seniors 60 and older.
Fourth annual Denver Gorilla Run; starts and finishes at Wyn-
koop Brewery, 1634 18th St.; 5.6K race; registrants receive gorilla suit to keep; race start, 11 a.m.; $45 to $150.
Oct. 28
Girl Scout 5K & 1K (run/walk) and Fitness Fair; at Washington Park, Denver. $12 to $27; 9 a.m.
303-778-8774 or
Nov. 10
Mesa State 37K RimRock Run; gate to gate through the Colorado National Monument, outside Grand Junction; 8 a.m.
or 970-243-4055
SKI AREA
OPENING DATES
Arapahoe Basin Mid to late Oct.
Aspen Highlands Dec. 8
Aspen Mountain Nov. 22
Beaver Creek Nov. 21
Breckenridge Nov. 9
Buttermilk Dec. 8
Copper Mountain Nov. 2
Crested Butte Nov. 17
Echo Mountain Dec. 1
Eldora Nov. 16
Howelsen Hill Dec. 1
Keystone Nov. 9
Loveland Mid to late Oct.
Monarch Mountain Nov. 21
Powderhorn Dec. 6
Purgatory (Durango) Dec. 1
Silverton Mountain TBD
Ski Cooper Nov. 22
Snowmass Nov. 22
Sol Vista Basin Dec. 19
Steamboat Nov. 21
Sunlight Nov. 30
Telluride Nov. 22
Vail Nov. 16
Winter Park/Mary Jane Nov. 14
Wolf Creek Nov. 2
Calendar submissions
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