Kendrick Childers memorial float June 28&29

The Date for Kendrick Childers Memorial will be Sunday June 29th at the Pumphouse section of the Colorado river followed by Chinese food at the Bamboo Garden between 730 and 8pm. Please RSVP here to help the family and I get an idea of who will be able to make it.

Kendrick Childers Memorial Float

June 29th Pumphouse to State bridge

Meet up at Pumphouse between 1030 and 11 AM

Food at Bamboo Garden between 730 and 8 PM

Any people reading this from Staples Aurora Please message Jen or Kim at Staples to RSVP.

Please bring sun screen, food(snacks) and Water. Wear shorts and a summer shirt and bring along a hat and long sleeve shirt as well.

We will have rafts and coolers for everyone once we are on the water.

It will be a fun and safe day for all non-boating people wanting to be on the water. The scenery is beautiful and water is mostly calm.

John Childers will be posting soon with maps and links to the area. If anyone wants to provide a link and map here to the pumphouse launch area. I am not good at posting links.

Directions to Pumphous Campground with GPS Coordinates

I. 10:30 to 11:00 AM Rendezvous at Pump House Campground 14 miles southwest of Kremmling on

the Colorado River.

Leave Denver area about 7:30 to 8 AM depending on stops and missed turns possible.

Take I-70 West through the Eisenhower Tunnel to exit 205 to merge onto CO-9 N/Blue River Pkwy

toward Silverthorne. Continue to follow CO-9 North

35.4 miles, 42 mins Trough Road (Co Hwy 1) turn-off. Turn left and head southwest. If you enter

Kremmling, you missed this turn, which is a couple of miles south of the town center at US 40 and

CO-9.

10.4 miles, 18 mins to GPS Coordinates 39.97632,-106.501358 the turn-off from Trough Road (Co

Hwy 1) into the Pumphouse Campground (GPS coordinates 39.98959,-106.508836).

Approximate half-way point from Denver area is the Eisenhower Tunnel.
From the Eisenhower Tunnel to the turn-off from Trough Road (Co Hwy 1) into the Pumphouse

Campground it's 55.3 mi, 1 hour 9 mins

If you are late to the rendezvous, keep on traveling. The actual launch won't be until Noonish or a

little later. After the 10:30 AM rendezvous, some time will be consumed by driving vehicles to the

State Bridge Campground parking area (GPS Coordinates 39.857495,-106.648863) for picking up

the boats once we leave the water. That's an hour-and-half round trip.

Directions to Bamboo Gardens with GPS Coordinates

II. 7:30 to 8:00 PM Rendezvous at Bamboo Gardens in Silverthorne.
After the boats are picked up, we will head for the Bamboo Gardens Restaurant at 190 Meraly Way Silverthorne, CO 80498 (GPS coordinates: 39.6272264,-106.0656401)

63.6 mi, 1 hour 11 mins from State Bridge Campground (Head south onto CO-131 for 14 miles. Take I-70 E toward Denver and head east for 49 miles. Take exit 205 for US-6 E/CO-9 N toward Silverthorne/Dillon 0.2 mi. Keep right at the fork, follow signs for Silverthorne and merge onto US-6 E 0.1 mi.)

62.9 mi, 1 hour 48 mins from State Bridge Campground via Pumphouse Campground if you're picking up a vehicle there. ( Take Trout Road northeast to Pumphouse Campground and on to CO-9, turn right and head south to Silverthorne. Continue onto Blue River Pkwy in Silverthorne. Pass under I-70 and continue onto US-6 E)

Turn right onto Stephens Way

Turn left onto Meraly Way