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Show Cross Currents May 16, 1997 Page 1 1 6,500 feet. People who live here and ride A bike tour encompassing the y at this elevation all the time consider it all You roads San the on Juan Skyway and beginning and easy. stay county level terrain, with ending in Durango is offered by way, over essentially hills. Total elevation gain is 280 Backroads Bicycle Touring 1516 5th rolling feet on the full Street, loop. Berkeley, CA 94710-171415527-155Road fax The route goes north on County 5 or 800245-387250 from Durango on the cast side of the 415527-144Animas Valley. You cross U.S. 550 at Bakers Bridge (where pans of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Other Durango sources for bike were filmed). On the west side of U.S. rentals by the hour, day or week, repairs, 550, you take County Road 203 south to sales, and expen biking information: Durango, down the west side of the k Hassle Free Sports, 2615 Main scenic, valley. CO Avenue, 81301, Durango, six-da- 30-mi- le 3, 4, 4. red-roc- 970259-387- 4 right in town, the Animas City Mountain Loop is a short but steep trail for advanced riders. Follow the signs off East 4th Avenue, north of trail gains 32nd Street. The 1,250 feet in elevation, but your sweat is rewarded with a birds-ey- e panorama encompassing Falls Creek, the Animas Valiev, and the West Needle Mountains. Also starting 5.5-mi- le or 800835-380- 0. Durango Cyclery, Street, Durango, 13th 81301, 143 East CO 970247-074- 7. SouthWest Adventures, 780 Main CO Avenue, 81302, Durango, 800642-538970259-037- 0 Pedal or the Peaks, 6th & Main Avenue, Durango, CO 81301, 970259-688Second Gear, 600 East 2nd Avenue, Durango, CO 81301, 970247-451offers rentals of used mountain bikes, and also sells second hand bikes. (This article was adapted from Adventure Guide to the High Southwest by Steve Cohen, Hunter Publishing, 1996. Cohen, of Hesperus, is the author of more than a dozen books on travel, and his unit-in- g and photography appear in dozens of domestic and international publications.) 9. 0. 1, Ski Area, 26 Durango on U.S. 550, Purgatory-Durang- o miles north 970247-900- 0 of or ofTers 800525-089- 2, mounan entire network of tain bike trails during the summer. You well-mark- . ed can tackle the world championship course, or ride a chairlift up with your bike and ride down. Purgatory supplies maps of such routes as the Championship Trail (an advanced eight-mil- e loop), Hcrmosa Cliff Overlook (a nine-mil- e intermediate trail that takes you to a stunning view point atop the Hcrmosa Cliffs), Harris Park Loop (a four-miintermediate trail down the north face of the ski mountain and into the Hermosa Valley), Hcrmosa Creek Trail (covering 20 miles of expert trail named by Snow single-trac- k Country magazine as one of the five best mountain bike rides in the United States), and several beginner trails. Purgatory also offers guided tours. Bike Advgrttsing feature Tuck Gives A Young Mothers the Flat Stomach They Had Before Mini-Tumm- y le i pouch from my belly button to my bikini line. It didnt look this way before my two children. What will give me that washboard-flat stomach again? rentals are available at Purgatory from Purgatory 970385-218- Sports, or 970247-900- 0 3. Denis J. Tinder, M.D. Mountain Bike Specialists, 949 Main CO Ave., 81301, Durango, 970247-406operates a d in Durango, bike shop rentals and guided tours that including e include bikes, helmets, lunch, addisnacks, rain gear, and sag wagon. In y and tion to half-da- y tours they offer multi-da- y biking itineraries, including accommodations and most meals, to the Utc Mountain Tribal Park; a Iron Horse Tour from Silvcrton to bike tour Durango; and a five-da- y full-servi- 6, ce year-roun- Diplomat. American Board of Fiastic Dpbmate, American Board of Surgery. Surgery. Member: American Society 3-d- encompassing the entire 232-mil- e San Juan Skyway. Custom tours are also available to such sites as wildflower meadows in July and August, mining camps, or special photo tours. of Plastic and Reconstruct Surgeow, Upoplasty Sodet' cfSortb America. Board of Directors, Colorado Medical Society. Hospital affiliations: Mercy trail-sid- full-da- Sieve Cohen Mercy Health Hafntal Durango; dime, Farmington; Soutbuvst Memorial Hospital Cortez Thirteen years plastic surgery' practice in Four Corners. Haw a question about plastic surgery? Write Denis J. Winder, M.D,, Riverside Medial Bui0infc'5 E. Pari Aw, Suite (yo) 253818. 301, Durango, CO 81301. Tel Farmington office: Mercy Health Clinic, 2TX) Farmington Aw,, Bldg. F, Farmington, NM 87401 Td: (505)325-86-Cort- office: Tel: (970) An abdominoplasty, more commonly called a tummy tuck, is the best surgical solution for women who have had children and desire flat stomachs again. The surgeon removes excess skin and fatty tissue from the middle and lower portions of the abdomen and tightens the underlying muscles that were separated during pregnancy and childbirth. There are a full range of abdominoplasties depending upon the amount and location of excess skin and the indicated treatment of the upper versus lower region of the abdomen. You may be a candidate for a which smallest the incision and, requires A i consequently, the smallest scar. A is done for patients with minimal excess skin and separation of the abdominal muscles, frequently younger women who have had children. In this case an incision is made in the crease of the lower abdominal wall, just above the bikini line which allows access to tighten the underlying muscles. This is followed by liposuction, if indicated. The incisions are quite small and scarring is barely noticeable. Recovery time is less than a regular tummy tuck" and patients can sometimes expect to be back at work within a week. Heaver patients, or patients with more severe sagging, may require a full tummy tuck where the incisions tend to be longer, from hipbone to hipbone. Dr. W |