Informal Group Ride with Boneshaker Cycles
Friday, May 22nd @ 6:15p & Saturday, May 23rd @ 8:00a
Come enjoy BV's awesome Midland trail system! Meet up with other riders at Boneshaker Cycles on Main Street in Buena Vista and decide where you will ride and how much fun you want to have! Rentals and demos available.
Informal Group Paddle
Friday May 22nd, Saturday May 23rd & Sunday May 24th @ 11am
If you are looking for more time to paddle with a group during Paddlefest, this is for you! Meet outside CKS to collaborate with other paddlers and decide on a section of the river to run. Carpooling is encouraged. No Shuttle provided.
Cost: Free
Random Doubles Prep Lap for Yucca Classic
Friday, May 22nd @ 10:00am
Join us for a very informal round of disc golf on the Buena Vista Disc Golf Course to meet up with other disc golfers and practice before showing off your skills in the 10th Annual Yucca Classic, held Saturday morning of Paddlefest. Please bring your own equipment.
Cost: Free
Women's Freestyle Clinic
with Team Jackson
Friday, May 22nd @ 12pm
A women’s only play-session? Lets make it happen!
So many skilled women here for the Paddlefest lets have one session ‘just for the ladies’’.
Outfitting / gear choice / finishing your spins or locking down the tricky-wu … these ladies can showcase any move and answer any questions while showing you how THEY get the job done in the hole. Focus: Outfitting tips / spins / Loops (not rolling).
Cost: Free
Freestyle Fundamentals
with Stephen Wright
Friday, May 22nd @ 2pm
Super-charge your freestyling with dynamic games and concepts you can play with ANYWHERE to take your wave and hole-surfing skills to the next level.
Cost: Free
BV SUP Yoga 2020
Friday, May 22nd, Saturday, May 23rd, Sunday, 24th
SUP Yoga will be held at the BV Town Pond in McPhelemy Park. Don't have your own board? We've got you covered! In love with your board? Bring it!
This will be an inspiring and invigorating yoga practice celebrating a connection to the movement of the world around you and the steadiness within you.
Breaking Down the Numbers
with Team Jackson
Saturday, May 23rd @ 10am
Want to race the Numbers like a Pro? Let a seasoned speedster teach you the line-choice strategies and bow-dry techniques that will cut down your race-times without having to paddle any harder.
Cost: Free
Fly Casting Clinic with BV Fly
Sunday, May 24th @ 10am
Learn to cast a fly rod or improve upon your technique. All supplies provided, but feel free to bring your own. Maximum of 10 participants. All levels welcome.
Clinic will take place at McPhelemy Pond.
Cost: Free
Downriver Play in your
Slicey Boat with Team Jackson
Sunday, May 24th @ 11:30am
Yearning for some #Recklessverticality in your paddling? Let us take you ‘beyond the stern squirt’ with drills and techniques to get those ends skywards and slice a smile into every feature on the river.
Cost: Free
Women's Group Paddle
Sunday, May 24th @ 12pm
Come out and paddle with other women that love the water. Most advanced women paddlers are encouraged to participate in the Numbers Kayak Race, and then meet up with the ladies afterwards for this fun group paddle. Meet at Wilderness Aware Rafting- the beginners can get out at RMOC following the Milk Run (Class 2+). All others will continue through Browns Canyon (Class 3+) to take out at Hecla Junction.
Any money collected and gear donations will go to ElevateHER (a non-profit organization based in Chaffee County, Colorado that empowers girls through outdoor adventure).
Cost: $5 suggested donation to ElevateHER
Strokes and Concepts
with Team Jackson
Sunday, May 24th @ 12pm
Scouting, eddy catching, boat scouting, and line choice… let's combine these with some boof strokes to get you a class better!
Cost: Free
Intro to Creeking Clinic Down the Fractions with Team Jackson
Sunday, May 24th @ 12pm
Practice the fundamentals and concepts of creeking with Team Jackson down the Fractions section of the Arkansas river.
RMOC Clinics
Wednesday, May 20th, Thursday, May 21st, Friday, May 22nd through Sunday, May 24th
May 20-21
ACA L3-L4 SUP Instructor Certification Workshop
May 22
ACA Swiftwater Rescue Update
Kayak – Strokes and Balance
Kayak – Advanced Technique
SUP – Advanced River Moves
May 23
Kayak – Strokes and Balance
Kayak- River Essentials
SUP – Basics
SUP – River Surfing
May 24
Kayak – River Essentials
Kayak – River Running
SUP – Downriver
May 25
ACA L5 SUP Instructor Certification Workshop
Paddle at the Pond
Saturday only
Possibly 2 sessions?
RMOC FREE paddlers shuttle
Sunday, May 24. Must reserve a seat in advance. Limit 14 people / shuttle
9:30am pick-up at CKS, deliver to Johnson Village
12:30 pick-up at RMOC, deliver back to CKS
2pm pick-up at Hecla Junction, deliver to RMOC
4pm pick-up at Hecla Junction, deliver to RMOC