The cover for the Ride The Rockies commemorative book.
Since the route announcement party in February, there are a number of Denver Post newsroom employees who have been busy with the acclaimed citizen’s tour, without ever settling upon two wheels.
That mission: to produce , which takes off from Grand Junction on June 14. Since February, we’ve looked through hundreds of photos, dug through piles of newspaper clippings, crafted route maps, photographed jerseys and other commemorative items, and talked with organizers, participants and volunteers to put together a full-color 144-page book that gives only a sense of what the weeklong event is like.
Now, a few months later, the result of that effort is almost here and ready to be in your hands. We’re grateful for the work that and his staff with Ride The Rockies and the Denver Post Foundation’s Tracy Ulmer have done to make this book what we think will be a great product for not only cyclists, but for people looking for interesting spots in Colorado’s mountains.
During the week of the tour, I’ll be on the route — but not on a bike. Look for me shamelessly shilling the book but also meeting and talking to folks in the communities and on the Ride. As a Colorado native from the northeastern plains, I am truly psyched to get to areas of the state I’ve never seen, and this tour provides plenty of those sites for me.
So let me just make this the first of many shameful promotional plugs to come: . You’ll be glad you did.
