Escalante Days schedule
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
Noon — Vendor Booth set-up in Flanders Park
4:30-6:30 p.m. — Music in the Park by Louie Edwards and Yesterday
5:30 p.m. — Kiddy Parade Line-up at Dolores General Store
6 p.m. — Kiddy Parade
6-8 p.m. — Music by the Lindells
6:30 p.m. — Kid’s Bicycle Rodeo behind Dolores Medical building (2 bikes will be given away)
7 p.m. — Paint Ball Target shooting Pinion Flats Paintball Camp
7:30 — Ice Cream Eating Contest
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
7-10 a.m. — Pancake Breakfast at Dolores Doghouse by K-9 Search and Rescue
8 a.m. — Registration for Rotary Club Mountain Bike Race in front of Dolores Medical Center. Pre-registration available.
8:30 a.m. — Galloping Goose Museum Tours continuously till 5:30 p.m.; sign up for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday Logging Railroad Historical Tour
9:50 a.m. — Start of the Rotary Club Mountain Bike Race
10 a.m. — Parade line up at DHS at 9:30 a.m. VFW Color Guard out front.
11 a.m. — Free hourly Galloping Goose rides until 4 p.m.
11 a.m. — Chain Saw contest
12:30 p.m. — Water Balloon Toss
1 p.m. — Arm Wrestling
1:15 p.m. — Presentation: “D&RGW Locomotive 315 History” at Town Hall
1:30 p.m. — Penny Hunt
2 p.m. — 3 Legged Race
2:30 p.m. — Watermelon eating contest
3 p.m. — Egg Toss
3:15 p.m. — Presentation: Emma Sweeney: Full Size Locomotive in the movie “A Ticket to Tomahawk” at Town Hall by George Niederauer- President Durango Railroad Historical Society
3:30 p.m. — Duck Race
4:30-6 p.m. — Live Music by the Mo-Towns
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14
9 a.m.-1 p.m. — Tour: Logging Railroads of the New Mexico Lumber Company with Lew Matis, Galloping Goose Historical Society
MISC
Theme: Dolores: “A Small Town with a Big Heart”
Citizen of the Year — Dave Sanford, Grand Marshall
Vintage Motorcycle Trials Saturday at the Cemetery Parking Lot following the parade and Sunday at 9:30 at the town dump.
Softball tournament, all day Saturday and Sunday — sponsored by the Dolores High School wrestling team
