Tom Grundy's Colorado YES tour with the Yogaslackers Page

The giant yogaslacker light lit up the sky and the call went out from yogaslacker central (wherever the yogaslackers are), a biker was down and they needed another. Since I didn't get onto Julie's Grand Canyon river trip, I joined the slackers in Denver for the second half of the Colorado YES tour. YES = Yoga Extreme Sustainability. The tour was around Colorado by bicycle carrying all the toys needed to complete 108 climbs, 54 miles of whitewater, heaps of slacklining and yoga, slackline yoga and acro-yoga workshops, 1080 miles of biking, etc. etc. It started at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail and ended at the Telluride Yoga Festival. Part of the purpose was to raise awareness and money for Beads of Courage, a non-profit that helps children with serious illnesses cope with their treatments.

We blogged almost every day, so I am including links to the blogs at the end of this page. The blogs contain maps, pictures, text, links, and sometimes video, and rather than retelling everything, I am just linking like the lazy little slacker I am (besides, I am in Wyoming and have better things to do than type on the computer all day). There are also links to videos on Youtube. Someday I might make progress with the many GB of photos I took, but meanwhile you can see pics in the blog posts.

There may be a final video or other summary, and I'll post a link when/if there is one.

I am putting links from before I joined the tour in case anyone is interested...
Fun at the Teva games - start to the YES tour?
Yes Tour day 1 (sort of) Vail to Near Carbondale
Yes Tour day 2 - Aspen and back
Yes Tour day 3 mountain man crossing to Gypsum
Yes Tour day 4 to Steamboat Springs
Yes Tour day 5
Yes Tour day 6 Rest and loss of Dan
Yes Tour day 7 Rabbit Ears Pass
Yes Tour day 8 Another pass then through Granby and into RMNP
Yes Tour day 9 Trail Ridge Road to Boulder
Yes Tour day 10-13 Boulder
Yes Tour day 15 Denver
Yes Tour day 16 Denver Children's Hospital
videos from the first 1/2 of the tour
This is where I joined the tour...
YES Tour Day 17 Denver to Colorado Springs
YES Tour day 18 climbing and acro workshop
YES Tour Day 19 slackline in the park
YES Tour day 20 climbing
YES tour day 21 Colorado Springs to Pueblo
YES tour day 22 hospital and slackline in the park
YES tour day 23 morning news and 3 workshops
YES tour day 24 flying
YES tour day 25 Pueblo to Salida
YES tour day 26 Salida to Gunnison
YES tour day 27 108 climbs
YES tour day 28 rest and workshop
YES tour day 29 packrafting and slackline workshop
YES tour day 30 Gunnison to Montrose
YES tour day 31 Montrose to Telluride
YES tour epilogue part 1
Yogaslacker YES Tour epilogue part 2

Videos

YES tour day 0 video
Vail workshops on the YES tour video
Rocky Mountain stupidity video
Coke machine video
Ben and Jerry's acro show
first half of the YES tour video
108 YES handstands video on youtube
54 miles of whitewater YES tour video on youtube
typical YES tour day in Colorado Springs video on youtube
YES tour climbing up to 81/108 video on youtube
Beads of Courage video on youtube
second half of the YES tour video (after Denver - mostly Pueblo)

The Yogaslackers head up towards Dallas Divide
picture of Yogaslackers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7xqekajxrc&feature=autofb

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