Summer returned to the East Kootenay for the second running of the Kootenay Rockies Gran Fondo, Sunday, Sept. 7. With more than 360 confirmed cyclists, the event was up 40 per cent over last year's inaugural Gran Fondo. Groups of cyclists took off from St. Eugene Mission Resort starting at 9 a.m. — the Gran Fondo (152 kilometres), the Medio Fondo (the start pictured above, 102 kilometres) and the 57-km Piccolo Fondo. See more in Tuesday's Daily Townsman.