My Colorado Tour started out May 13th, 32 hours of driving later and we reached Denver Colorado. We kept on driving past Denver to reach Glenwood Colorado the location for the 2009 USA Freestyle Team Trials. I spent a week training there and then went back to a little town on the outskirts of Denver for the annual Golden Community Rodeo, the goes on once a week for 4 weeks starting in the middle of May. Then over to Beuna Vista for the BV Pro rodeo, which I placed 10th in the Men's Pro k-1 class. Then back to Glenwood for a week of training before Team Trials. I managed to secure 2nd place and a spot on the USA Freestyle Team. Then we went to Vail for Teva Games, probably one of the largest paddling events in the world. Then after that we drove to lyons for lyons fest, and after that over to Salida to begin training for FIbark. Also securing 2nd at Fibark we then went to our last competition, the Gunnison River Fest, managing to grab 4th place in the Men's Pro K-1 Division. After a quick stop at the M-wave, 2 days of driving later, back at home on July 1st.
Colorado was definitly an awesoume trip this year, I got to meet many really cool new people. I definitly have a few people to thank for helping us out during this trip, including Gary Mullins, Elain and Jeff Cambell, Johhny Meyers and Lief Anderson. There was alot of ups and downs but overall the trip was a sweet deal, ran lots of new creeks like Oh be joyful, homestake, and South Boulder Creek. And learned a bunch of new tricks like the Blunt-nasty and clean pan ams.
Heres a short video on some of the creeks and places I got to go in Colorado, Enjoy!
