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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
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From Border to Border Homewood Friends Bike 2,700 Miles Through the Wild West During Challenging Road Trip By Rubin E. Grant
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ith their lives moving in divergent directions, five childhood friends from Homewood decided they wanted to do something together in case they couldn’t
In our annual look at the local arts community we report on what some are doing to survive in the time of coronavirus. See page 10.
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for a while. So, on July 12, Adam Westfall, Ian Ross, Thomas Gordon, Willis Wood and Reed Whetstone embarked on an arduous bike ride from the Canadian border below Calgary to the border of Mexico, taking an unimaginably rugged trail. Wood, a back-country skier who lives in Durango, Colorado, and is described by his friends as a crazy adventurer, came up with the idea. Whetstone mapped out the route, which covered 2,700 miles with a total of 175,000 feet elevation gain. “The five of us have been friends since elementary school at Edgewood,” Whetstone said. “We wanted to keep up with each other because we seemed to be moving away from each other since college and it was getting harder to do things together.”
See BORDER TO BORDER, page 14