{"id":106646,"date":"2016-02-17T19:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/groomer-party-at-boggy-draw\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:39:38","slug":"groomer-party-at-boggy-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/groomer-party-at-boggy-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Groomer party at Boggy Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e335fca6-d208-4ad3-a5b1-da747ca131f5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e335fca6-d208-4ad3-a5b1-da747ca131f5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e335fca6-d208-4ad3-a5b1-da747ca131f5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e335fca6-d208-4ad3-a5b1-da747ca131f5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Taz Vass snowbikes at Boggy Draw recently. A fundraising party to benefit the volunteer groomers will be held Sunday, Feb. 21 beginning at 10 a.m. at the Boggy Draw trailhead. There will be races, a raffle, chili, and beverages.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Taz Vass snowbikes at Boggy Draw recently. A fundraising party to benefit the volunteer groomers will be held Sunday, Feb. 21 beginning at 10 a.m. at the Boggy Draw trailhead. There will be races, a raffle, chili, and beverages.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A fundraiser for snowbike groomers will be held at the Boggy Draw trailhead on Sunday, Feb. 21 beginning at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Southwest Colorado Cycling Association and the San Juan National Forest partnered to create 16 miles of snowbiking trails along the Boggy Draw road network.<\/p>\n<p>The forest service issued the permit, but all the grooming was done by volunteers, said Scott Darling, co-owner of Kokopelli Bike and Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA core group of volunteers donated their time, fuel, and snowmobiles to groom the trails, and we wanted to help set up a fund to cover those costs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The main volunteer groomer jockeys are Jimbo Fairley, Mike Gostlin, Shawn Gregory, Shawn Peed, and Eric Hogue. Others chipped in time as well.<\/p>\n<p>The event starts at 10 a.m. and will feature group rides, a chili feast, beverages, snowbiking contests, and a raffle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a lot of fun stuff,\u201d said Ken Fagerlin, of Kokopellis. \u201cBread Bakery is providing the bread, and the chips are from the Chip Peddler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contests include a wheelie competition, best skidder, and a short biathlon. Custom made snowbiking grooming equipment made by Gregory and Gostlin will be on display as well.<\/p>\n<p>Never tried snowbiking, show up and test ride one, Darling said.<\/p>\n<p>The main snowbike trails begin at the parking lot. Follow the Boggy Draw road for two miles then veer to the right. After another two miles, a longer loop veers left. Or stay on the trail for another two miles back to the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be get the trails in the best shape we can on Saturday night to get ready for this fun event,\u201d Fagerlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundraiser is for volunteer efforts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[44],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-dolores"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106646"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}