Road Trip from Cheyenne, WY to Fort Collins, CO, via Owl Canyon Rd

We drove today from Cheyenne back to Ft. Collins, so I thought I would take some pictures of the scenery on Owl Canyon Road, in Ft. Collins.

Cheyenne KOA, Cheyenne, Wyoming

8800 Hutchins Dr.
Cheyenne, WY  82007
(307) 638-8840 Info.
(800) 562-1507 (Reserv.)
koa.com/campgrounds/cheyenne

Entrance

Entrance Road to Office

Office

Cabins

Tent Sites

Interior Roads and Sites are all gravel

Lanes between pull thru's 

Rear perimeter road around Campground

Side perimeter road around Campground at Tent Village area

A Tent Site

Restrooms & Laundry area

This rig is affiliated with the Rodeo.  Too cool.  

Views around outside of Campground

Views around outside of Campground

Chuckwagon Pancake Breakfast - Frontier Days, Cheyenne, WY

Started by the Cheyenne Frontier Committee in 1952, the traditional free breakfast (originally served twice a week) has since been a favorite of locals and visitors alike. Link 

The all-time Cheyenne Frontier Days free breakfast single-day record was registered during the Wednesday 1996 feeding frenzy where 16,897 people were served. The weekly record was broken that same year when 39,111 people enjoyed a free breakfast and Cheyenne western hospitality. 

Picture taken looking forward from my position in line.  There are 2 lines, going in two directions.  See the dump truck at the top of this line? That's where you make a "u" and go back in the opposite direction toward the Breakfast.

 Just for the record, the almost 40,000 were fed in a combined serving time of eight hours, ten minutes.

This picture is looking behind me in line.  We were only in line about12-15 minutes before we had a plate of pancakes.    

They have a commercial sized cement mixer there in motion, so you believe that's where the batter is.  I found this story, written one year ago, by a Radio or TV Station:

When you’re whipping up a batch of pancakes for 30,000 people you need a big mixer, but just how exactly does Cheyenne Frontier Days (CFD) do it?

Head Batter Mixer Dave McCracken says back in the 1970s, CFD officials decided to get a ready-mix cement truck from Cook-Mccann.

“They would volunteer a truck,” said McCracken. “In those days we only had it on Friday because it was actually doing real work on Monday and Wednesday.”

Eventually, CFD was able to get a cement truck for all three pancake breakfasts.

“If it’s a little gritty that comes with the territory, but they try to send a clean truck every time,” said McCracken.

But truth be told, the pancake batter is actually mixed in industrial-sized mixers, not a cement truck.

“It’s part of the show,” said McCracken. ” A lot of people think we really mix batter in there and we hope it continues for a long time.”

Read More: Video Reveals Truth About Cheyenne Frontier Days Pancake Batter | http://kgab.com/video-reveals-truth-about-cheyenne-frontier-days-pancake-batter/?trackback=tsmclip

The flap-jacks were flying as the servers caught them in their pans

The Kiwanis Club, with the help of the Cheyenne Boys and Girl Scouts, cook up the grub on military ranges. For the Kiwanis, the CFD breakfast is not only a great time, but a chance to practice as well. The ranges have proved to be useful in past years in feeding victims of natural disasters, and Frontier Days is the perfect opportunity to show Civil Defense just how many people they can feed in a short period of time. 

This year, the volunteers will serve up more than 100,000 flapjacks made from 5,000 pounds of pancake mix, cook-up 3,000 pounds of ham, serve 9,200 cartons of milk and 520 gallons of coffee, along with 630 pounds of butter and 475 gallons of syrup! 

While we were they, they announced they had served over 3,300 pancakes this morning

Live music.  Here it was the native Indians doing a dance.

The picture below is not mine.  I think it's a cool shot.