Etch-a-Sketchers go for Guinness record in Lyons

A Guinness World Record attempt for the largest mass of people ever drawing on Etch-A-Sketches at the same time will be attempted on Saturday, June 25, in Lyons.

The event, called SketchAPalooza, is part of the local Good Old Days town festival, sidewalk sale and street fair.

Event organizers Jeff Gagliardi and Clark Hodge want to “shake it up” and  anticipate hundreds of sketchers participating in the event, purely for the fun of it.

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Setting a world record is something many dream of as children, but never realize, Gagliardi said. 

Any proceeds from SketchAPalooza will be distributed between Lyons schools.

Excess or donated Etch-A-Sketches will be cleaned and donated to local schools, Children’s Hospital and other charitable organizations. 

Participants must supply their own Etch-a-Sketch.

To help set a Guinness World Record, participants are encouraged, but not required to register. On-site event check-in will run from 9 to 10 a.m. on  June 25 at Sandstone Park in Lyons.

To earn the world record, participants will all draw the same subject, at the same time, on full-size Etch-a-Sketches. Planned as a family event, kids from 1 to 101 are invited.  Artistic talent is optional, but enthusiasm is mandatory. 

Bicyclists who want to be like the professionals in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge bike tour in August can sign up with Colorado Wilderness Rides and Guides to ride many of the same routes.

The Boulder-based adventure company will hold its own eight-day tour featuring about 400 miles of bicycle riding — mostly in the mountains — and luxury support, including a chef, said Josh Baruch, tour manager and company owner. The cost for the Colorado Wilderness Rides and Guides tour is $7,500, and organizers plan to have 10 to 20 riders.

The adventure company’s tour will start in Boulder on Aug. 21 and wind its way through Colorado on a route that includes Crested Butte, Aspen, Breckenridge and a finish in Denver on Aug. 28. The professional tour is not scheduled to come through Boulder but includes many of the same stops.

Participants will receive a training schedule to get ready for the several days of riding “at altitude,” Baruch said. The adventure company tour includes several heart-hammering rides – including a ride up Cottonwood Pass near Buena Vista, a ride up Independence Pass from a point near Leadville over the pass to Aspen; the Copper Triangle ride, in which bicyclists climb three mountain passes higher than 10,000 feet; and a trip up Mount Evans, which tops out at 14,130 feet above sea level.

Colorado Wilderness Rides and Guides expects to gross as much as $1 million for the events it does this year.