Surfers Ride the Colorado River at Inaugural Event

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Monday, June 1, 2009
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — You don’t see a whole lot of people with surfboards slung under their arms here in western Colorado. But that may change, if a group of experimental extreme athletes who descended on Glenwood Springs this weekend have their way.

Twenty athletes from across the continental United States and Hawaii took to the Colorado River on Sunday for the first ever Whitewater Stand Up Paddling Championships.