FIBArk

FIBArk is an annual festival that happens in Salida to celebrate everything rafting and kayaking. This was its 60th anniversary. I believe that FIBArk stands for First in Boating on the Arkansas River. The activities center around kayaking and rafting, but there is a festival and parade on Saturday.

Since this is about half way to Gunnison, we met Derek there to spend a day wandering around and eating the local fair(fare?).

And of course there were numerous beer gardens. We started in the New Belgium one on arriving.

Salida has gone through quite a bit of gentrification over the last 10 years, which means there are a lot of galleries and funky furniture stores.

A quick survey would say that we could become rich selling some of the items built for the house over the last couple of years based on the prices being gotten for some of the stuff being sold.

You should be able to see the Arkansas going by behind the stage in this picture.

Just to let you know the entertainment being provided here is by people singing karaoke to the thousands in attendance.

It is very entertaining if you can take the empathic embarrassment of the singers.

Although these pictures taken with my cellphone don't do it justice, Salida is at the southern exit of the valley and is surrounded by 14r's to the west and south. You can see the Collegiate's in the background at the end of the street.

We did get some work done last Sunday in that Marlys completed everything in the garage painting project and I got the deck alignment set with the rim joist and the versa-lam. Next weekend we set the posts and frame in the deck joists. the schedule is to compete it the week of 6/30 after a quick trip to Minnesota.