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Memorial Day weekend 2021 was memorable on many fronts, with the return of the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series, the official opening of the lower half of the Palisade Plunge hiking and biking trail, and a celebration of the opening of the River Park at Las Colonias that was delayed by a year due to the pandemic. During Thursday’s riverfront celebration, Chris Castilian, the executive director of Great Outdoors Colorado, noted that a person could ride a bike from the top of Grand Mesa to the Utah border “because of the vision this community collaboratively has put together fo...

The toilet paper ran out and so everyone decided to ride bikes. OK, that wasn’t exactly how it went. Not everyone gave up running for rides, and the rush on toilet paper didn’t lead to the rush on bikes. But the one was so close on the heels of the other that the joke at Ruby Canyon Cycles was that “bikes are the new toilet paper,” said Ryan Cranston owner of the downtown store. “Essentially, the world bought a year’s worth of bicycles in two and a half months,” said Ashley Jordan, co-owner of The Bike Shop on North Avenue.