Tag: 14ers
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Alt-rock: Why some jam to the less-traveled, extreme sides of Colorado 14ers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the 1990s, Andrew Hamilton was guiding river trips and in his spare time scaling Colorado’s highest peaks when he came by a book. It was the first edition of “Colorado’s Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs,” by legendary mountaineer Gerry Roach. Like many others who…
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‘Best office in the world’: Busy summer of trail work on Colorado 14ers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Five years ago, Carl Woody’s first job out of grad school took him to the slopes of Pikes Peak. “Best office in the world right there,” said the program director with Colorado Springs nonprofit Rocky Mountain Field Institute. His task: to build a new trail…
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Colorado 14er reopens through waiver requirement
Legal access is returning to a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado. Mount Lindsey is reopening to individuals through an online waiver, which Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) announced in a Facebook post Tuesday. The post included a link to the website, mountlindseywaiver.com, where the waiver can be electronically signed and kept before one embarks to the privately…
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Private 14er in Colorado opens hiking reservations
Reservations have opened to hike a privately owned 14,000-foot mountain in southern Colorado. The mountain is “like no other,” reads the billing on Cielo Vista Ranch’s website: “Culebra Peak offers a unique climbing experience. Unlike any other fourteener in Colorado, hiking impacts are largely absent — Culebra is essentially ‘untrailed.’” Unlike every fourteener sitting on public…
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Fast-rising Colorado mountain runner sets records across Himalayas
Alongside a few fellow American mountaineers, Chris Fisher recently celebrated his 29th birthday in an Irish pub perched high amid the Himalayas. This was no occasion for contemplating the future, the confines of time. And yet there Fisher was nights later, contemplating just that. The young Coloradan was near the end of a record-setting odyssey…
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Another ‘milestone’ for new trail being built on Colorado 14er
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The nonprofit builder of a new trail on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado is celebrating a “significant milestone” of a multi-year effort. That was the word from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative in a social media post announcing the opening of a second “bypass” on the lower…
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New record on all 58 of Colorado’s 14ers claimed
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado couple has claimed a new record across the state’s highest summits. Twelve days after they started in the San Juan Mountains, Andrea Sansone and Andrew Hamilton have reported an unlikely mission accomplished: a straight push through all 58 of the state’s peaks above…
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Colorado couple plans ‘monster’ 14er record attempt
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado mountaineering power couple has announced a bold record pursuit. No strangers to speedy feats across the state’s 14,000-foot peaks, Andrew Hamilton and Andrea Sansone of Golden plan to embark next week on a mission bagging all 58 summits in a fashion never marked…
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A dive into vaunted speed records across Colorado’s outdoors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Joseph DeMoor has a confession to make. He knows it sounds silly, but he likes to see his name listed on the first page of fastestknowntime.com/athletes. There are, at last check, 487 pages you could…
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Search underway for Colorado Springs man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Rocky Mountain National Park rangers started the search Monday for a 23-year-old Colorado Springs man who went missing on Longs Peak on Sunday. The National Park Service said Lucas Macaj was reported overdue late Sunday night after setting out to summit the 14,259-foot mountain. His…