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Published on November 9, 2010, by in FOOTBALL.

As a former CU athlete, I was rooting for Coach Hawkins up until his last days. Last January, as the Foundation, fans, Coloradans, and other Buffaloes called for his firing, I knew that he deserved another chance. I would have been upset if he had been fired a year ago, but I am not that upset now. Everyone deserves second chances, he got his, and unfortunately, he wasn’t able to to put together a winning CU football team. It’s not just him – the other coaching staff and the players are also responsible for the losses, but Hawkins is the one who hears about it when his plans don’t pan out. It’s unfortunate, but that’s what he signed up for. I liked him a lot. He’s a stand-up coach and a good person. I was an athlete when Coach Barnett managed the football team and its staff. Team morale, sportsmanship,

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Thesis is the Worstest

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Published on November 2, 2010, by in NEUTRAL.

Steve and I are both writing our theses to complete our masters in applied science. So cute, we’re in the same program. In fact, we’ve taken all of the same classes. Steve tagged along for my first couple of classes and then applied and got into my program at the University of Denver. It’s been a long haul – three years and counting in the program, we took all of our classes while also working full-time jobs. We finished our coursework prior to getting married (over a year now!), and were left with the daunting task of writing a thesis. Needless to say, we put it off long enough and it was time to get rid of that nagging sense of fleeting accomplishment. My thesis is that I don’t like writing a thesis! But I did. It’s been a grueling two months, filled with days cooped up in hotel rooms

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Erosion Wills and Ills

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Published on November 1, 2010, by in IMBA TCC.

This is a picture of a heavily eroded section of trail. It’s a multi-use trail at Granite Bay State Park, outside of Sacramento, Calif. This used to be a smooth singletrack trail. However, it wasn’t built purposefully. Instead of minding sustainability guidelines, the trail was built on a fall line and water streamed down the hillside on the trail itself. As it did that, it picked up both velocity and sediment (in this case, sand and decomposed granite). As a result, the trail became a gully. Trail users moved the trail over to the right hand side, and the same problem is happening. No amount of diversion or reroute will fix this trail. The only solution is to prevent people from using this trail, establish a sustainable reroute, and attempt to revegetate the unsustainable trail sections. All of the sediment that is being eroded is draining into the Granite Bay

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Rabbit Rabbit

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Published on November 1, 2010, by in IMBA TCC.

It’s November. Our first year of Trail Care is folding itself neatly into the books. The year is certainly not wearing on us, but we’re looking forward to a break. We have five more Trail Care Crew visits this year, all in California: Grass Valley, Coloma, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, San Diego. All nice places. Next year on the road is shaping up to be a good one, there’s interest for capacity building around trails and mountain biking across the United States, which is certainly something to look forward to. There comes a lot of excitement with going new places. But I feel like I’ve done California. More than a few times, actually. That said, we go new places and meet new people every day, so I can’t complain. I guess I’m slowly retreating into winter hibernation mode where the same old questions seem a bit old, and I’m looking

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