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 owned fourteener. CFI’s post also included a quick, celebratory remark: “Yea!”

The nonprofit reportedly spent the better part of four years negotiating a return to access. A “no trespassing” sign had been planted along the approach to Lindsey, which sits on Trinchera Blanca Ranch. Owned by billionaire and conservationist Louis Bacon, the ranch sprawls about 172,000 acres in southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley.

Lindsey’s closure nearly four years ago came amid heightened liability fears among private landowners who had been allowing public access around the state. The cluster of 14,000-foot summits along the popular DeCaLiBron loop was another flashpoint; mounts Democrat, Cameron, Lincoln and Bross had been closed before a public acquisition and reopening in 2023.

Democrat reopened thanks to the acquisition, while Lincoln and Cameron are open to hikers who sign a waiver via a QR code posted at the trailhead. A QR code will be posted as well for Lindsey, according to CFI’s announcement Tuesday.

While imploring hikers to sign the waiver in advance at mountlindseywaiver.com, “There is great cell service at this point” at the mountain’s base, CFI wrote in its Facebook post. “Thus, there should be no reason that you are attempting to climb the peak without an electronic waiver. Doing so puts yourself and continued legal access in jeopardy.”

CFI also emphasized the waiver covers two routes: the standard “gully” and “ridge” routes, as they are listed at 14ers.com.

“You may not access any other portion of the property and you may not use the property for any other purpose,” reads the top of mountlindseywaiver.com, which states bans on hunting, overnighting and any motorized or drone use above the property.

The website continues: “Mt. Lindsey trails and access routes are not maintained and are not supervised. All access is at your own risk. Do not attempt if you are not qualified and properly equipped.”

Specific language was the focus of a legislative process that played out last year, leading up to lawmakers amending the Colorado Recreational Use Statute. The amendment was sought by landowners and recreation advocates, who saw the statute’s decades-old liability protections weakened by a federal court’s 2019 decision that awarded $7.3 million to a cyclist injured at the Air Force Academy.

CFI credited the revised Colorado Recreational Use Statute in “getting to this point” with Lindsey.

CFI wrote to future visitors: “Please remember that the restored climbing access to Mount Lindsey is a privilege that can be withdrawn if people do not follow the rules.”