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August 2, 2016,
Good evening folks!
As stated in a few of my last morning blogs, I’m going to start sharing my daily fitness program, along with my personal meal plan that I’ve designed myself. Since my websites launch on June 8, 2016, I’ve lost over 40 pounds by simply sticking to a diet that is made up mostly of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and lean proteins. Even more importantly, I have removed many bad choices completely from my diet and will detail those in tomorrow’s blog. I have also maintained a pretty serious level of physical activity that includes hiking the National Forest each morning for approximately an hour and a half to three hours. As a benchmark to my progress, we have a particular hill climb that we climb three times a week. This hill climb is made up of 7 different steep sections, each hill averaging 2-3 hundred yards of a 12-15 percent grade. In between the steep hills there is about 100-200 feet of rolling trail that meanders around the mountain side as a set up for the next climb. According to a recording device my friend usually wears, this climb is equivalent 66 flights of stairs, according to the Fitbit http://www.Fitbit.com. The trail surface is made of mostly crushed granite, which provides another challenge as it resembles the climbing of a beach sand dune. I’ll be tracking and sharing all of my daily fitness numbers on an easy to read chart when my new Fitbit arrives. In addition to doing this particular climb three times a week, I am hiking 2 miles round trip, twice a day, 7 days a week to go bag ice for the Decker’s Country Store. This is also a nice upper body workout after a nice morning hike. The consistency of this easy to moderate stroll along the South Platte provides me a nice 15 to 20 minute cool down period after climbing the steeper hills. This also allows me to scout the river for bug and fish activity, shoot a few photos, and work on my fishing report. In just a few more days, when a few needed bike parts arrive, I’ll be adding a 20 mile bike ride, 4 times weekly, to my daily workout routine. This is the same route I trained on daily for the 2014 Ride the Rockies. This cycling event, in it’s 29 year of existence, was a 565 mile road ride that took 2,500 riders, including myself, over 6 mountain passes and climbed over 35,000 feet in total elevation gain, over a 6 day period in June of 2014. My training ride is a 10 mile out and back ride on hwy 67, that provides an initial 3 hill climb section of five miles, followed with a five 5 mile valley ride that has smooth asphalt and some good winding curves. This sections is particularly good for working on my cycling cadence and also for the sprint sections. More on the daily cycling when the parts arrive and I’m back on the road! In August of 2014, after the successful tour ride, I suffered a shoulder injury at the USA Pro-Challenge event in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have put the shoulder through some in-house rehab and I’m probably about 60% better than I was this time last year. As you can probably see, my success is coming from the consistency. I consistency exercise every day and I consistently think about, watch, and record everything that I put into my body. This way, I hold myself accountable to what I eat by simply taking two to three seconds to ask myself a very simple question. Is this a want, or is this a need? This my friends has been instrumental in stopping me from making a bad choice with food or beverage. Tomorrow I will share more about the diet plan and the specifics of what I’m eating daily, but right now I’ve got to get some sleep! Big hike in the morning! Picking my own fresh, wild raspberries to make my next batch of Kombucha! The gallery I’m posting tonight will show you some of the meals that I have prepared for myself and housemate in the last couple of weeks and some of the fun shots I’ve taken of residents, visitors and guests to our little part of paradise! As I walk the river each and everyday, I look forward to sharing with you some of the moments I capture while exploring and reporting news and events in our neck of the woods. Please feel free to comment and I look forward to hearing from you soon through our comment section. I hope you follow along with me each day on this quest to achieve optimal health and wellness through diet, exercise and positive living! Have a great evening!
Chris
August 2, 2016 Evening Recap
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August 2, 2016,
Good evening folks!
As stated in a few of my last morning blogs, I’m going to start sharing my daily fitness program, along with my personal meal plan that I’ve designed myself. Since my websites launch on June 8, 2016, I’ve lost over 40 pounds by simply sticking to a diet that is made up mostly of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and lean proteins. Even more importantly, I have removed many bad choices completely from my diet and will detail those in tomorrow’s blog. I have also maintained a pretty serious level of physical activity that includes hiking the National Forest each morning for approximately an hour and a half to three hours. As a benchmark to my progress, we have a particular hill climb that we climb three times a week. This hill climb is made up of 7 different steep sections, each hill averaging 2-3 hundred yards of a 12-15 percent grade. In between the steep hills there is about 100-200 feet of rolling trail that meanders around the mountain side as a set up for the next climb. According to a recording device my friend usually wears, this climb is equivalent 66 flights of stairs, according to the Fitbit http://www.Fitbit.com. The trail surface is made of mostly crushed granite, which provides another challenge as it resembles the climbing of a beach sand dune. I’ll be tracking and sharing all of my daily fitness numbers on an easy to read chart when my new Fitbit arrives. In addition to doing this particular climb three times a week, I am hiking 2 miles round trip, twice a day, 7 days a week to go bag ice for the Decker’s Country Store. This is also a nice upper body workout after a nice morning hike. The consistency of this easy to moderate stroll along the South Platte provides me a nice 15 to 20 minute cool down period after climbing the steeper hills. This also allows me to scout the river for bug and fish activity, shoot a few photos, and work on my fishing report. In just a few more days, when a few needed bike parts arrive, I’ll be adding a 20 mile bike ride, 4 times weekly, to my daily workout routine. This is the same route I trained on daily for the 2014 Ride the Rockies. This cycling event, in it’s 29 year of existence, was a 565 mile road ride that took 2,500 riders, including myself, over 6 mountain passes and climbed over 35,000 feet in total elevation gain, over a 6 day period in June of 2014. My training ride is a 10 mile out and back ride on hwy 67, that provides an initial 3 hill climb section of five miles, followed with a five 5 mile valley ride that has smooth asphalt and some good winding curves. This sections is particularly good for working on my cycling cadence and also for the sprint sections. More on the daily cycling when the parts arrive and I’m back on the road! In August of 2014, after the successful tour ride, I suffered a shoulder injury at the USA Pro-Challenge event in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have put the shoulder through some in-house rehab and I’m probably about 60% better than I was this time last year. As you can probably see, my success is coming from the consistency. I consistency exercise every day and I consistently think about, watch, and record everything that I put into my body. This way, I hold myself accountable to what I eat by simply taking two to three seconds to ask myself a very simple question. Is this a want, or is this a need? This my friends has been instrumental in stopping me from making a bad choice with food or beverage. Tomorrow I will share more about the diet plan and the specifics of what I’m eating daily, but right now I’ve got to get some sleep! Big hike in the morning! Picking my own fresh, wild raspberries to make my next batch of Kombucha! The gallery I’m posting tonight will show you some of the meals that I have prepared for myself and housemate in the last couple of weeks and some of the fun shots I’ve taken of residents, visitors and guests to our little part of paradise! As I walk the river each and everyday, I look forward to sharing with you some of the moments I capture while exploring and reporting news and events in our neck of the woods. Please feel free to comment and I look forward to hearing from you soon through our comment section. I hope you follow along with me each day on this quest to achieve optimal health and wellness through diet, exercise and positive living! Have a great evening!
Chris
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8/2/16 Morning river report
fishing reportGood Morning!
Up early and getting ready to head out for an early morning hike my friends, but let’s talk a bit about what’s happening on the South Platte river today! Not much change in the flow since yesterday. We’ve still got 187 (cfs) at Cheesman Dam, about 215 (cfs) in Decker’s, and 243 (cfs) in Trumbull. Clarity is great, as we have not seem much rain in the last couple of days, but the moss is another story. Looking like we’re going to have another warm day with temps in the upper 80’s, with a chance of early thundershowers. Mid-mornings continue to produce significant hatches, resulting in some pretty good dry-fly action from about 9am until noon. After the Trico’s are finished off around noon, I’ve been throwing a terrestrial, followed with a variety of nymphs, midges and emerging bugs, such as the Grey RS-2, buckskin, Black Beauty, and of course, the Chocolate Thunder. All of these bugs can be purchased at Flies and Lies. http://www.flies-n-lies.com Around 7:30/8, the top water activity really seems to pick up. Stay out there as long as you can and bring plenty of bug repellent! Don’t forget to get up here early on the weekends, as the areas upstream from the Decker’s bridge tend to fill up quickly. Remember! there is plenty of great water to fish downstream of Decker’s, through Trumbull and down to the Confluence. Campground space is limited folks, so make your reservations for Lone Rock Campground right here. http://www.reserveamerica.com/camping/lone-rock-campground-co/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70054 That’s all for now folks! Have a great day and I’ll be back to post on the evening river conditions, along with DAY 1 of my new fitness and wellness program!
Chris
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August 1, 2016 Daily river review
fishing reportGood Morning!
Welcome back my friends! Waking up to cooler temperatures in the valley this morning. Getting to the point where the windows are getting closed before bed! Right now we’ve got 47 degrees with plenty of sunshine on the way and and a forecast high of 89. The crowds were big this past weekend and the fish got pounded pretty hard through the Decker’s area. It’s days like this that I like to go a little further downstream to work on some fish that may have not seen so much pressure over the weekend. Alright, the flow out of Cheesman this morning is 187 (cfs), 200/210 (cfs) through Decker’s, and 249 (cfs) in Trumbull. Water temperature is 48 degrees and we are going to start to see a gradual temperature drop as the summer season winds down. With no water coming over the spill-way, all the water that is released from the Cheesman Dam is cooler and coming from the bottom. This will affect the hatch as we get further into August and September. Right now, the fish are actively feeding on the smorgasbord of both dry and sub-surface bugs! When it comes to the dry flies, I’ve been having good success throwing a single Parachute BWO or a single Trico (Rusty-spinner), as I personally don’t always like to throw a two or three fly rig! On the nymphing side of things, I’ve seen the Chocolate Thunder pull fish left and right, to the point where my buddy was throwing a double dropper rig with two of these bugs below a Pat’s Rubber Legs. Along with the “thunder” I would have to say that I heard the grey RS-2 was also a hot bug over the weekend. Numerous Anglers spoke to me about the effectiveness of this bug over the last five or six days. The hatches in the evening have been late, but worth waiting for. Fishing the banks with a single dry or dry-dropper rig will usually get results as the fish are sipping on the floating buffet of Trico’s! Don’t hesitate to throw that hopper or streamer if you don’t see the rise on the banks. I’ve pulled several fish by tossing the “Wooley Bugger” to the banks and shallows later in the evening. Alrighty folks! That’s it for now. Heading out later this evening to try my luck on the Platte! Have a great day and I’ll see you back here again this evening!
Chris
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7/31 river report
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July 31, 2016
Good morning everyone and thanks for showing up for my morning river report! Well, the heat is back and so are the crowds! Yesterday was one of the busiest days I’ve seen on the South Platte in quite some time! The campgrounds are full and the river is full of tubers and fisherman. Today’s picture gallery will highlight some of the fun I’ve captured up to this point in the weekend. Alrighty then, the flow this morning out of Cheesman is 192(cfs), about 210/215 (cfs) in Decker’s, with a nice 232 (cfs) in Trumbull. The temperature this morning was 49.9 degrees and the moss content is a little higher. Perhaps we maybe see an increase in the moss due to the amount of people moving about the river and loosening it from the river beds and rocks? Just a guess! Mid-mornings have been filled with dry flies the last three or four days. About 9 o’clock or so, roughly when the sun makes its way over the range, I’ve seen huge trico, caddis, and midge hatches all along the river. The dry fly action has been slowing down around noon and it’s back to nymphing with the usual suspects. The chocolate thunder, along with the juju beatis, hare’s ear, and olive split-case have been producing fish regularly by getting down deep during these hot mid-day hours. Much later in the evening, and for the last week or so, I’ve been doing well with a hopper-dropper pattern, or even just throwing the single hopper such as an Ant or grasshopper. Running one of these bugs down the bank as it’s getting dark has proved to be very successful, as the suspecting trout can’t resist the easy meal drifting by. This morning I’m heading out for a 4/5 mile hike, followed by some mid-morning fishing and river reconnaissance. Keep in mind that the fishing pressure in Decker’s is greatest on the weekends, so come on up during the week and see for yourself why we are Denver’s first choice for a quick get away weekday fishing trip. Stop in to Flies-n-lies for all you need for a day on the river, and be sure to stop into the Decker’s Corner Cafe for a soft-serve ice-cream or one of their famous, green chili smothered burritos! That’s all for now folks! Have a great day and get out there and fish!
Chris
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7/30 Full House!
camping, Fishing Conditions, fishing reportJuly 30, 2016
Good morning folks! and welcome to the morning river report for the South Platte River, from Trumbull/Decker’s, Colorado. Let’s get right to the good stuff, shall we? The last two morning caddis and midge hatches have been prolific! Both Thursday and Friday mornings I covered the river between Trumbull and Decker’s and up to the “WIRE” heading towards Camp Shadybrook. Roughly, at about 8:30/9:00, and once the sun rise clears Rampart Range, the hatching begins! Along with the caddis and midge hatches, we’ve seen a huge increase in Trico hatches with non-stop rising fish from about nine to noon. The flow out of Cheesman this morning is just a bit higher than yesterday. At 5:45 this morning, we’re showing 192 (cfs), 215 (cfs) in Decker’s, and 229 (cfs) in Trumbull. The river temperature is hovering right around 47/48 degrees with some moss to deal with, but nothing out of the ordinary, as the clarity is fantastic! With school going back into session soon, the river, campgrounds, and surrounding areas are busy, mostly in the Decker’s area, so keep in mind that their is plenty of great water to fish and lots of river to tube to the east of Decker’s, downstream. From the Platte River campground to the confluence, you can typically find plenty of water to fish and float without someone on top of you! As I walked the river last night taking some photos, I noticed that the campgrounds in our area are full and are sure to be that way for the next two weekends. Of the five campgrounds in our immediate area, three are first come first serve, but two of them offer reservations. Lone Rock Campground, which is also located on a prime spot to fish the Platte, does take reservations. Make your reservation right here at http://www.reserveamerica.com. The other campground that takes reservations is the Kelsey Campground and can also be found on the above link. That’s it for now folks! Have a great day and get out there and fish!
Chris
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