No More Mount Evans rides
03-09-23, 06:19 PM
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No More Mount Evans rides
You won't be able to ride Mount Evans in Colorado much longer. They are going to change its name due to not so great historical actions related to Governor Evans for whom it was named originally. You will now probably ride Mount Blue sky, but the name hasn't been decided finally yet.
03-09-23, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by gobicycling
You won't be able to ride Mount Evans in Colorado much longer. They are going to change its name due to not so great historical actions related to Governor Evans for whom it was named originally. You will now probably ride Mount Blue sky, but the name hasn't been decided finally yet.
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03-09-23, 11:10 PM
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The Sand Creek Massacre is a crime that should be more widely publicized, but I do understand the desire not to have the hill named for a war criminal.
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"A road by any other name ... ." At least you will still be able to make that climb. In its finite wisdom, Los Angeles government changed my favorite climb, Tuna Canyon in the Malibu hills, to one way down only. 
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03-10-23, 09:13 AM
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Whatever they call the mountain, I'll still ride it. It's a nice climb. Not too hard, not too easy... at least for me. And the vista's you see while going up slowly are beautiful. Coming down you don't have much time to enjoy them. Maybe if they ever get the expansion cracks fixed and repave the road I won't have to concentrate on my line so much!
03-10-23, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Polaris OBark
The Sand Creek Massacre is a crime that should be more widely publicized, but I do understand the desire not to have the hill named for a war criminal.
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03-10-23, 10:29 AM
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The Denver Post (at least in the early 90s when I briefly lived there).
I did not know the Silas Soule story. Thanks for the wikipedia link.
I did not know the Silas Soule story. Thanks for the wikipedia link.
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There's still the Bob Cook Memorial climb, which I doubt will have its name changed.
Both a USAC race and a Gran Fondo event.
Both a USAC race and a Gran Fondo event.
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Originally Posted by Polaris OBark
The Denver Post (at least in the early 90s when I briefly lived there).
I did not know the Silas Soule story. Thanks for the wikipedia link.
I did not know the Silas Soule story. Thanks for the wikipedia link.
The Annual Spiritual Healing Run starts at Soule’s gravesite every year. He’s that important to the Cheyenne.
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03-10-23, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by gobicycling
WTF?
I was born there, and it never occurred to me...
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03-12-23, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Polaris OBark
So, Evanston (Ill.) is named after this guy.
WTF?
I was born there, and it never occurred to me...
WTF?
I was born there, and it never occurred to me...
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Some nit wit always has some whinney reason to change the name of thing that have been in place for decades or even centuries.
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Originally Posted by rydabent
Some nit wit always has some whinney reason to change the name of thing that have been in place for decades or even centuries.
03-13-23, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by rydabent
Some nit wit always has some whinney reason to change the name of thing that have been in place for decades or even centuries.
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03-15-23, 09:37 PM
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Although it isn’t quite as Stan Hoig’s The Sand Creek Massacre, the book Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek is a good exploration of the aftermath. At least Wynkoop got a street named after him.
The Annual Spiritual Healing Run starts at Soule’s gravesite every year. He’s that important to the Cheyenne.
The Annual Spiritual Healing Run starts at Soule’s gravesite every year. He’s that important to the Cheyenne.
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Bob Cook was a nice guy. A couple of weeks after we visited him in the hospital in Tucson, he was gone. I knew he was accomplished, but not the extent. Why not name it Mt. Cook?
Climb in peace, Bob.
Climb in peace, Bob.
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I first read about the Sand Creek Massacre when I read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee as a teenager. Highly recommended.
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