Photo by William Woody—Ouray resident Jesse Pattridge bores a hole in solid Gunnison blue granite on Saturday during the fourth annual Highgrader’s Holidays in Ouray. Pattridge and other entrants, most of them hard-rock miners, competed to see who could bore a 3-foot hole the fastest. Competition continues today, with the main event at 3 p.m.: double jacking, in which two-man teams try to drive a steel bar into granite.