Tag: Berthoud Pass
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A look at 9 Colorado passes over the Continental Divide — and what to see on the drives
Call it the great separator, or the thing that unifies us as Coloradans. That’s the Continental Divide, or the Great Divide, so named for the mighty formation that separates our North American watersheds between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. In Colorado, we know it as the rugged wall between the Front Range and the Western…
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CDOT re-opens Berthoud Pass in Colorado’s high country
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Colorado Department of Transportation officials late Wednesday announced U.S. 40, Berthoud Pass, is re-opened after a small avalanche Sunday forced its closure. Described as a “bank slide,” the avalanche trapped about 10 vehicles Sunday. But they were removed with CDOT and law enforcement help. The pass has remained closed since that time. “Crews have worked…
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A look back at 5 abandoned ski areas in Colorado
Colorado ski areas are the products of dreams coming true, of visionaries and investors coming together. Other now-shuttered ski areas are the results of broken dreams. Here’s a look at some of the slopes time forgot: Berthoud Pass: “The Pass,” as it was simply known, enjoyed a long run between 1937 and 2001. The site…
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CDOT may close US 40 over Berthoud Pass Thursday afternoon
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Transportation officials may close US Highway 40 over Berthoud Pass this afternoon, when the warm weather is loosening heavy snow from recent winter storms, making avalanches likely. Two small avalanches already came down around Mile Point 238 earlier this week. No vehicles were affected, the…
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Winter returns: Fatal crash temporarily closes westbound I-70 Thursday
Colorado’s first major snow storm Thursday already claimed a victim, according to the Colorado State Patrol (CSP). Troopers tweeted at 7:46 a.m. Thursday I-70 was closed at Georgetown as they investigated a fatal crash involving a jackknifed semi-truck and a pedestrian. I-70 westbound lanes were closed for hours while officials investigated the incident. The left…
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New book features 45 high alpine trail runs in Colorado — we asked for some favorites
As a teenager in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, Annalise Grueter could not believe the order of her cross country team coach. “We were going to be hiking/jogging a (13,000-foot mountain) for training that July day,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘What are we doing? This is a thing?’” Flash forward to today, running up mountains…
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No injuries in Berthoud Pass avalanche
Search and rescue crews determined no one was buried in an avalanche Wednesday morning on Berthoud Pass. Earlier reports suggested that two people possibly were buried in the avalanche. The Grand County Sheriff’s Office began receiving reports of an avalanche at 11 a.m. in the Current Creek area near “the postage stamp” feature, spokeswoman Erin Opsahl…
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Pikes Peak’s first recorded climber had wilderness named for him, but larger dreams failed
Mark James contemplates his great-great-great-great-great uncle, the renowned peak the man famously ascended and the little-known summit that instead took his name elsewhere in Colorado. At 14,115 feet, Pikes Peak boasts a more “convoluted landscape,” James says. “All those boulder fields and arroyos and fall-offs and abysses.” The well-traveled backpacker living near the Colorado-Wyoming border…