Community Calendar

On Monday, June 1st at 7:30pm, Dolores Bike Hostel will host an evening of adventure stories from Steve "Doom" Fassbinder and Matthew Tangeman as part of the Mesa to Mountaintops Speaker Series.

Steve has co-written the definitive bike-rafting guide including a comprehensive history of the sport and Matthew is one of the most renowned young alpine/climbing/skiing photo-videographers.

On Saturday, June 6th at 2:00pm Canyons of The Ancients Visitor Center and Museum will host a lecture by Nicholas LaPalm exploring Desert Archaic Lifeways of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.

The program will examine the transition from big-game hunting to plant-based subsistence, early food-processing technologies, and the use of native plants in arid environments through archaeology and ethnobotany.

On Saturday, June 20th at 2:00pm, as part of BurroFest, Montezuma Heritage Museum will present a talk on the life and legacy of Butch Cassidy with historian Andrew Gulliford and adventurer Brett Davis at Mancos Opera House.

Through a modern mountain bike expedition tracing the old haunts of Cassidy and his Wild Bunch along the outlaw trail, Andrew and Brett explored the line between history and legend and will discuss why the outlaw era still captivates the American imagination.