Keith Thompson is a trail builder, and a community builder. And recently he helped build a bridge between the Parks Service and a group of mountain bikers in order to solve a local problem.

Being a hockey fan in Colorado can't get much better than this. The celebrations started in April when the University of Denver captured its ninth NCAA men's hockey national championship.

Not terribly long after arriving at the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News to chronicle the local sports scene in the form of newspaper cartoons, Drew Litton turned the world on its ear.