Scrubbing down the Red Bull Soap Box Race

Usually the domain of hikers, concert-goers and geologists, Red Rocks morphed into an adrenalin-soaked downhill track and hosted the carnival that is the Red Bull Soapbox Race this past weekend. Free to attend and free to enter, most did the former…but over 40 daring amateurs attempted the latter and subjected themselves to the quarter mile gauntlet. While the construction materials were mostly simple, the ingenuity was elaborate and onlookers were treated to the spectacle of a giant block of cheese, a vintage chairlift and a novelty shoe hurtling down the windy and steep track at speeds approaching 30 miles per hour.