Chad DeVries of Wheat Ridge accelerates through a turn on his second run Saturday morning August 14, 2010 on the Lands End Hill Climb course.

Dick DeVries of Wheat Ridge begins his second run Saturday morning August 14, 2010 on the Lands End Hill Climb course.

Travis Bennett, right of Breckenridge and Jim Linden of Clifton watch cars race by along the Lands End Hill Climb course Saturday August 14, 2010.

Cameron Jones, left,  trails Jill Whinnery by a few steps as the two run along the Blue Heron section of the Riverfront Trail in the early stage of Saturday’s Goldman half marathon. Jones won the race.

The Fruita Monument golf team practices on the driving range at Tiara Rado Golf Course.

Mesa quarterback Sean Blackmer hands off the ball during a drill Thursday afternoon August 12, 2010, on Bus Bergman field at Mesa State.

Katie Langelier from Grand Junction takes a cruise in her kayak Tuesday afternoon on one of the lakes at the James M. Robb-Colorado River State Park, Connected Lakes section.

A good summer runoff has kept the waterfalls flowing.

Hiking up to Hanging Lake.

The new section of walkway and deck at Hanging Lake.

Carol Oglesby of Grand Junction celebrates a successful trip donw the Green River with guide Charlie Card of Spinner Fall Guide Service of Dutch John, Utah. Card guided the Oglesbys down the C Section of the Green River, a 10-mile stretch of water where fish are fewer in number but often much larger than found in the A and B sections of the river below Flaming Gorge Dam.  Special to The Senbtinel/Pat oglesby

Carol Oglesby holds one of the feisty brown trout she and Pat caught during a recent trip down the C Section of the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam. Hooking these fish required great patience because the fish were infinitely suspicious, facing the near-constant threat of predators including osprey, great blue herons and pelicans. Special to The Sentinel/Pat Oglesby

Guide Charlie Card readies his over-sized net while Carol Oglesby fights one of the heavy-bodied brown trout cauhgt during a recent trip on the Green River. Carol Oglesby works a big trout while guide Charlie Card carefully positions his drift boat while fishing the Green River. Special to The Sentinel/Pat Oglesby

Steven Adams from Grand Junction gets some air during a race at Grand Junction BMX Track at the Mesa County Fairgrounds.

It’s not a long drive from Grand Junction to Carson Lake on top of Grand Mesa. Once you make the trek up Lands End Road, you;ll be rewarded with beautiful scenery, lots of wildlife to watch, and you can check out the view from the Lands End Observatory. Don’t forget your fishing gear: There are plenty of wild fresh brook trout in the lake.

An overlook of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon’s basement rock provides a place to contemplate the canyon’s geology and beauty.

Davin McAlister doesn’t mind what her peers think of her trademark footwear at competitions. McAlister wears a pair of torn, ragged flip-flops when she’s shooting, even in the winter.

Davin McAlister, a 16-year-old archer from Palisade High School, is making noise as one of the best female competitive freestyle bowhunters in Colorado.