After three weeks of competition and 32 competition rides, South Main Kayak Team’s Dustin Urban has placed third in the World Cup of freestyle kayaking. He finished 5th Sunday at the final event in Thun, Switzerland after winning the previous World Cup event in Augsburg, Germany. Jed Selby paddled well, making the quarter finals at […]

Lee H. writes:
Buena Vista/South Main kayaker Dustin Urban is in second place overall after his first place finish this weekend in Augsburg, Germany during the World Cup of freestyle kayaking. Urban topped the podium with 816 points, followed in second place by Slovakia’s Peter Csonka, 787 and four-time World Champion Eric Jackson in third place […]

I’ve really been enjoying my time watching the Olympics this month. No matter your feeling on the fact that the venue this time around is in China, the Olympic spirit sweeps you away into a space of international goodwill and impassioned competition.
However, lest we forget…. While we are watching Michael Phelps clean up in the […]

The countdown clock on NBC.com reads less than 24 hours ’til the games begin! With the usual bout of controversy over the host country’s politics and the added interest in what it takes to get blue skies over a city that hasn’t seen them in a decade (The US cycling team got a lot […]

I find that competing well has just as much to do with the mental game as technical ability. Before my winning ride at Vail, all I told myself was “Go out there and have the ride you are fully capable of having.” This set me up to have one of my best rides ever, but […]

As one of the best sunsets of the summer faded over Mt. Columbia last night, the lights came up on what should be a great new warm weather tradition in Buena Vista. BV’s newest night spot, Daughters Bar, (next door to and affiliated with Mother’s Bistro) partnered with Colorado Kayak Supply to start bringing […]

OK, so Buena Vista just hosted the first kayak pro rodeo this May… now this weekend its time to welcome the other kind of rodeo to town. Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12 get ready for some bronc and bull riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing, tie down roping, team roping, breakaway roping, and of […]

This week Buena Vista will be one of six host communities to this year’s Denver Post Ride the Rockies Tour. The 2000 cyclists participating in this year’s 435 mile route will begin in Durango and then continue through Cortez, Telluride, Montrose, Crested Butte, Buena Vista, and will end in Breckenridge. This annual event, started in […]

Spring has arrived in full force. The Lilacs are blooming, the snow is melting and the Caddis Fly are hatching in record numbers on the Arkansas River! ESPN covered the hatch a couple years back,
“They come off the river like smoke,” said Bill Edrington, owner of Royal Gorge Anglers
Fishermen are advised to […]

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What are you doing on Saturday? Hundreds of adventure seekers will be headed down to the Buena Vista river park to participate in this year’s Adventure Extreme Race.
“On May 10, for the second year running, the Buena Vista adventure race will include whitewater kayaking, single track mountain biking, trekking, an orienteering course and a ropes […]