Y.E.S. for Dine' Bikeyah
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Outdoor adventures & enrichment for Navajo Nation youth!

Cruising through the fall colors on the Chuska Challenge route

 Tour de Rez wraps up in Window Rock

The 18th annual Tour de Rez is in the books!  The journey around the Navajo Nation involved over 200 participants - biking, backpacking, hiking and rafting their way around the 1000-plus mile route!  Students from Tuba City, Tohatchi, Shonto, Shiprock, Teec Nos Pos, Ganado, Hardrocks, Round Rock, Kayenta, Cove, Twin Lakes, Wingate, Breadsprings, Chi Chil Tah, Sanders, Wide Ruins, Montezuma Creek and Chilchinbeto took part in this year's Tour.  The Tour edition of "Tales from the Trail" will be available later this month and pictures will be posted here soon.   Ahehe to all the riders, sponsors, volunteers, schools, churches, chapters & families who made the Tour a success!

 

The 2008 Chuska Challenge is set for Saturday, October 4 at the Dine' College campus in Tsaile, just 23 miles east of Canyon de Chelley.  Join us for an amazing weekend of mountain biking in some of northern Arizona's finest highcountry!  (Like the shot above.)   Registration is now open.  All the details are inside the "Chuska" section.  Hope to see you on the trail in October! 

 

 

 

For information about Y.E.S., contact: 
Tom Riggenbach, Executive Director
P.O. Box 1487   Teec Nos Pos, AZ   86514 
Phone: (928) 656-3817  E-mail: chuskaman@yahoo.com

    The Y.E.S. office is located on the T'iis Naazbas Community School campus, house #676 in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, just five miles south of the Four Corners.


 

Just for You...


The Chuska Challenge
 
This year's Chuska Challenge is set for October 4.  Check out the pics from the amazing ride through the reservation highcountry!
 
 
2008-09 Treks
 
We have multiple Grand Canyon outings, a series of trips to Supai, Rainbow Bridge treks, a four-season series atop Navajo Mountain . . . all this school year!  See you on the trail!
 
 
Tour de Rez
Tour 2008 . . . .
in honour of a fallen Tour hero: Redmond J. Etsitty.
 
Tales from the Trail
 
The Tour de Rez edition is coming soon!