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Personally, I don't think it's that scary.

Colorado wildlife officials said they euthanized the black bear that attacked a 17-year-old girl in her bedroom. Colorado Parks and Wildlife in Durango said that earlier this month, the bear broke into the girl’s room and scratched her through her blankets.

Wildlife officials said they set a trap and caught a bear matching the description from not only the recent break-in but from another one in the same area the next day. Officials said they confirmed it was the same one in the break-in.

I'm in my 7th week of a North America road trip (US and Canada) riding my mountain bike in almost 30 trail systems all over the place. Riding easy stiff as well as double-black trails.

Since I started, I have been experiencing mild numbness and tingling in my hands and forearms at night. It happens often (not always) and it doesn't always go away. When it does go away, it's when I move my arms into a "neutral" position (like next to my body or something like that). It works about 80% of the time. Sometimes it just doesn't go away until I fall asleep.

Anyone else dealing with this? Any ideas?

I'm hydrating often.

I have been watching Drumeo and I like it. It's fun, I learned things, I'm entertained.

What are the bad ones? Are there any?

Just rolled into town, driving across Canada. Is there a nice upscale area that has good shops and restaurants? Someplace that can be walked around comfortably in the evening or night?

Looking for a good healthy food, vegan is a priority.

Thanks for your answers!

I'm not going to put any preferences, I just want to hear the best stuff that you guys can throw at me. Looking for great food, I'll look at the menus when you post the names of the restaurants.

Thanks very much, nice town!

Edit: hitting India Clay tonight. Looking forward to it! I can't thank you guys enough for all of your input!

Currently at Revelstoke, we will hit Fernie later on. After that we head down into Montana to ride. We have some needs and we have encountered some issues…

- we are looking for trails that are E bike legal or lift access available. We are not young men. (Almost 60)

- we ride flow, tech, blue/black. We just left Whistler and rode a lot of the hard blue tech without issue and also rode A-line but didn't hit the big air. We don't jump much.

- lakeside and whitefish seem to have outrageous prices for accommodations. Airbnb and hotels are off the charts compared to Helena. This makes Helena very attractive.

- we need to be able to drive there from Fernie in less than six hours.

We are leaning towards Helena, but we don't know if the riding is awesome. Can you recommend a place to land with good trails and reasonable housing? USFS prohibits E bikes almost everywhere, but we can get by on an enduro row if we aren't killing ourselves on the climbs.

Edit: if E bikes are pretty much illegal everywhere, we can stick to the Enduro bikes. It will really kick our asses, and restrict the kind of trails that we can ride to things that aren't massive climbs.

The printer shows up in the "Add Printer" dialog, but there appear to be no drivers for it and Brother offers no MacOS drivers.

Help?

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Charlie Cunningham, a pioneer of modern mountain biking who viewed bicycles as a means of combining technology and nature in a friendly symbiosis that the automobile could never match, died June 2 in San Anselmo, California, north of San Francisco. He was 77.

His death, at a care facility, was from complications of a 2015 biking accident in which he sustained severe head trauma, said his wife, Jacqueline Phelan, a writer and former national off-road biking champion who is his only immediate survivor.

While cyclists have ridden on dirt roads and trails since the 1800s, the era of modern mountain biking began in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. In Marin County, California, enthusiasts bombed down unpaved fire roads on what were known as klunkers — single-speed cruisers with balloon tires.

As the sport became more sophisticated, bikes began to be built specifically for off-road terrain. The term “mountain bike” was coined, and downhill races were organized. Cunningham, who had a background in engineering, joined other germinal figures in the sport — including Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze, Tom Ritchey and Charlie Kelly — in creating innovative designs and developing this emerging branch of cycling.

Starting in 1978, he built the CCproto, which is considered the first mountain bike with an aluminum (rather than steel) frame, made of oversized tubes that were light and strong. His other innovations in off-road biking included knobby tires built for traction and control; a unique braking system that allowed for controlled stopping; and a patented lubrication system that flushed out old grease, water and dirt from a bike’s sealed bearings, injecting fresh grease.

“To put it bluntly, if it had to do with mountain bikes and it was either invented or became popular before 2000, there is a good chance that Charlie Cunningham had either filed the patent, sketched a drawing, made a prototype or discarded the concept as fruitless,” Richard Cunningham, a bike designer and cycling journalist who is not related to Charlie Cunningham, wrote in 2018 on Pinkbike, a biking website.

He added, “Cunningham laid down the DNA of the modern mountain bike so early in its history that many so-called inventors are still congratulating themselves for reinventing his inventions.”

Cunningham and Phelan belonged to the first class inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, in 1988. Yet he seldom raced or wore traditional cycling gear, preferring corduroy pants and collared shirts.

Mountain biking, for him, was more than a sport: It was a way of expressing his love of nature and his concern about the effect of cars on the environment.

Hiking in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, the one and only time he dropped acid, Phelan said in an interview, Cunningham peered down at the town of Silverton and was overcome by the feeling that “cars were the boss and people were the servants of the cars.”

In the 1970s, he had been known for wearing a mask around the Bay Area, breathing with an oxygen tank to protect his lungs from air polluted by cars. Other machines could also drive him to distraction. He and Phelan, who married in 1988, regularly slept in what was essentially a tree house outside their home in Fairfax, California, near San Anselmo — for the fresh air and the nightly respite from the plugged-in world of cellphones, fax machines, televisions and computers.

Cunningham “had a strong belief that the bicycle has a role in saving people and the planet, health-wise and mentally, too,” Phelan said. “Everybody that rides a lot knows it’s hard to maintain a bad mood on a bike.”

His interest in mountain biking also stemmed from his attempt to recover from a shattering experience in 1972, when his brother, Doug, his only sibling, died by suicide after receiving a low draft number and facing the possibility of having to fight in the Vietnam War.

For Cunningham, off-road cycling became a way to “get on top of the grief,” Phelan said.

Charles Burr Cunningham was born Aug. 23, 1948, in Washington, D.C. His family eventually settled in the San Francisco Bay Area.

His mother, Carol (Snell) Cunningham, was a highly regarded book artist who printed miniature books at her company, Sunflower Press, in Mill Valley, California. His father, Bruce Cunningham, was a World War II fighter pilot who also served in the Korean War, then became an avid outdoorsman and a surveyor for an engineering firm; he built the family home in Mill Valley after reading do-it-yourself books.

He shared his expertise with Charlie, who became an accomplished plumber, electrician and woodworker, and went on to study mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, leaving one semester from graduation, irritated that he was not permitted to take a course on nutrition.

Cunningham began building bikes in 1977, turning his garage in Fairfax into a workshop.

In 1982, he and two partners, Steve Potts and Mark Slate, founded Wilderness Trail Bikes, one of the first companies to design and produce components for mountain bikes. After Cunningham left the company in 2002 amid a legal dispute, he continued to build custom bikes and did freelance engineering work.

On Aug. 3, 2015, he was riding alone on a twisty road in Fairfax when he fell from his bike, perhaps after colliding with a deer, Phelan said. He suffered broken bones and a head injury that impaired his vision and scrambled his sense of direction. He struggled to read, but was able to write in journals and, eventually, to take walks by himself. He also rode on tandem bikes with his wife.

In a 2002 interview with Rivendell Reader, a cycling magazine, Cunningham called bicycles the “perfect means for ‘right living.’”

“They make people healthy and happy, and they free us from the tyranny of cars and the guilt of waste,” he said. “Of course, there’s a time and place for cars, but most of us use them too much.”

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Commissioners adopted five Land Use Code amendments that shave weeks off permitting timelines and launched a Proposition 123 "fast-track” for affordable housing - the latest steps in a code-reform effort the county began in 2025

DURANGO, Colo.(AP) — DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc. (RMCF) on Tuesday reported a loss of $1.2 million in its fiscal first quarter.

The Durango, Colorado-based company said it had a loss of 12 cents per share.

The confectionery producer and retailer posted revenue of $6.1 million in the period.

The Southwest monsoon will help fuel the first widespread summer thunderstorms across the interior West this week, bringing threats of gusty winds, blowing dust, downpours and dry lightning that could spark new wildfires.

As AccuWeather reports, temperatures will climb to 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher in many areas over the next several days, and winds will shift to the south, drawing increasing moisture into the interior West.

This annual weather pattern is known as the North American monsoon. It typically begins with spotty thunderstorms before evolving into more widespread drenching downpours later in the season.

While the monsoon can deliver drought-easing rainfall, precipitation is often unevenly distributed. Early in the season, predominantly dry thunderstorms can produce damaging wind gusts, haboobs and lightning that sparks wildfires.

Different parts of the interior West will experience varying stages of the monsoon over the next several weeks, with conditions differing significantly from one location to another.

Although monsoon thunderstorms sometimes reach nearly to the California coast, that is not expected this week.

However, some thunderstorms are forecast to reach into Las Vegas and the California deserts, as well as parts of the Sierra Nevada near and past the middle of July.

Some of the most frequent thunderstorm activity that could deliver a couple of inches of rain over a several-day span are most likely in Phoenix, Flagstaff and Tucson, Arizona; Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces, New Mexico; Las Vegas and Elko, Nevada; El Paso, Texas; Palm Springs, California; Salt Lake City and Cedar City, Utah, and Grand Junction and Durango, Colorado.

With the unfolding of the monsoon, outdoor enthusiasts and motorists are urged to keep alert for rapidly changing weather conditions.

Canyons, arroyos and roads that cross normally dry stream beds can rapidly fill with water even from storms miles away. Hiking should be avoided during the afternoon hours, when lightning storms are most active. Gusty winds in the vicinity of dry storms can bring the visibility to near zero in a matter of seconds.

Because the weather near thunderstorms can be chaotic, the aid and problems created for firefighting efforts can be complicated. On the one hand, any drenching rain will be welcome. On the other hand, little rain, gusty winds and lightning strikes could make matters worse.