Tag: Climbing
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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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Looking back on Ouray Ice Park’s 30 years — and ahead to uncertain future
In the mid-1990s, from his previous home in Steamboat Springs, Mike Gibbs was hearing about an icy realm unlike any other growing in a rocky pocket of southwest Colorado. “The word was there was some man-made, farmed ice park down in Ouray,” Gibbs recalled, “and there was a bunch of different climbing.” He arrived in…
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Rock climbers in Colorado and beyond celebrate shift away from wilderness scrutiny
Rock climbers in Colorado and beyond are marking a victory in what’s been called “a war on wilderness climbing.” That’s how Boulder-based Access Fund described the situation in early 2023, around the time the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service proposed a new policy regarding fixed anchors on crags across federal lands. Fixed anchors —…
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Through the ups and downs of life, father and son have climbed on
Craig Richard and his father, Ron Smith, share a deep bond rooted in their love of climbing, starting when Craig was just 5 years old at Garden of the Gods. Ron, an accomplished mountaineer who once summited Colorado’s highest peaks and North America’s Denali, now supports from the ground as Craig continues their legacy, climbing…
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Mass atop every Colorado 14er: Catholic priests take message to new heights
One of these days atop a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado, you might just spot two men in white robes, the wind blowing those vestments, their fingers cold on the chalices that are smaller than those typically seen on an altar — smaller for the pack on the way up. That’s Father John Nepil and Father…
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Alongside unlikely team, Colorado teen in wheelchair summits Pikes Peak
As day broke last Sunday, a train of people in purple shirts rose through the treeline of Pikes Peak, onward to the tundra and most critical juncture of a two-day journey. There were more than 50 of them, mostly strangers from Colorado Springs and beyond. They had met the day before at the head of…
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Stewart Green, climbing pioneer and prolific Colorado Springs writer, dies at 71
Of all the beautiful places he visited around the world, one of Stewart Green’s favorite places was the porch of his Colorado Springs home. He called it his “outdoor office.” A prolific author, photographer, rock climber and historian of his native city and of the sport he pioneered, Green would sit there at the porch…
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Outside Festival 2024 preview of Denver event at Civic Center Park
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The first-ever Outside Festival takes place in Denver June 1-2, 2024 and is an event that celebrates everything outdoors, featuring music, films, speakers and gear
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Rock climbers rescued from Eldorado Canyon State Park in Boulder
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Two rock climbers were rescued in Eldorado Canyon State Park south of Boulder on Saturday evening after becoming stuck. Boulder County rescue crews were called just before 8 p.m. by two climbers who were stuck on the top pitch of the T-2 climb located on Tower Two of the Redgarden Wall. The 22-year-old and 20-year-old…
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Debate over wilderness rock climbing at center of federal review
The U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service have proposed national guidance for anchors fixed on rocks across wilderness areas — a point of increased concern among climbers and conservation advocates in recent years. In an article early this year titled “A War on Wilderness Climbing?” the sport’s national leader in advocacy, Boulder-based Access Fund,…