Okay. I know that you don’t like missing your workouts, especially when ski season is approaching. On the other hand, spending the day in a stuffy recreation center when our gorgeous mountains are just waiting to be explored strikes me as, well, weird.

So here’s an opportunity to outdoors, get fit and get educated. On September 20th at 10 AM, the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance will present a brown bag lunch tour. Iowa Hill is a two-story log boardinghouse. It was built in 1876 as a lodging venue for the miners of Colonel A.J Ware’s Iowa Hill Gold Placer Mine.

The group will meet at 10 AM at the Iowa Hill Trailhead, and take a one-mile hike to the boardinghouse. Along the way, the highly educated Breckenridge Heritage guides will point out mining relics and tell stories of how gold was extracted from the surrounding hills.

You’ll come away with a gold mine of information (sorry, couldn’t resist) while spending a fabulous day in the healthy outdoors.