Tag: Climbing
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Deal in the works to preserve access at Ouray Ice Park amid liability concerns
The liability concern sweeping popular recreation lands in Colorado has come to a world-renowned destination for ice climbing. For decades during winter’s freezing days and nights, crews have run water from pipes and shower heads down the Uncompahgre River Gorge to form huge curtains and daggers that call to tens of thousands of axe- and…
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Eldorado’s treasure: Throwback rock climbing endures at Colorado canyon
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Two or three days a week, Adam Brink departs life and work in Boulder and drives south, watching the city fade and a wild, colorful realm of rock emerge. “It’s a place where you can escape the constraints of an over-civilized world,” Brink says. “You’re thrust back into this more primal existence.” The place is…
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Rock climber killed in accident in Summit County
The body of a 29-year-old male climber was recovered from a boulder field in the Officers Gulch area off Interstate 70 on Sunday, Summit County Rescue Group said. Officers Gulch is approximately 3.5 miles east of Copper Mountain. SCRG was first notified of a missing person by a friend of the deceased at 10:33 p.m.…
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1 killed, 2 injured in falls at Rocky Mountain National Park; dead climber identified
One person died and two people were seriously injured after they fell around the Longs Peak area of Rocky Mountain National Park on Friday and Sunday, a spokesperson said. Editors note: Tuesday, the Boulder County Coroner identified Jadyn Weiss, 21, of Severance, as the climber who fell to her death Sunday in the Flying Dutchman couloir.…
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Rifle Mountain Park is a climber’s challenging paradise
Rifle Mountain Park is recognized for offering some of the best limestone sport climbing in North America. The canyon is home to around 500 climbing routes.
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3 states, 100-plus peaks, no car: One man’s big walk starting in Colorado
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One recent morning along 14,000-foot Culebra Peak in southern Colorado, a pair of hikers offered some assistance to another they met. They learned this young man named Jason had been backpacking around without a sleeping pad. “It was like, ‘Oh my goodness, you’ve been sleeping on the ground?’” recalled Mark Reis, who was taking unrelated…
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Climber falls 100 feet free soloing 1st Flatiron in Boulder
Boulder County Communications was notified of a climber who fell approximately 100 feet around 6:30 pm., Monday, the agency said in a release. The climber was free solo climbing the Direct East Face Route of the First Flatiron in Boulder. The 22-year-old Boulder resident was near the top of the route when they fell and…
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Coalition seeks to quell liability concerns that have closed Colorado 14ers
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A coalition is growing with the hopes of fixing what many recreation advocates see as a big issue facing Colorado’s outdoors. The coalition is called Fix CRUS, in reference to the Colorado Recreational Use Statute. That’s the long-standing provision that some legislators, advocates and landowners attempted to amend earlier this year in hopes of easing…
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Colorado 14er hiking numbers plunge, according to new report
After unprecedented numbers during the 2020 pandemic, crowds on Colorado’s highest mountains continue to thin, according to a new study. The droves of 2020 led land managers and local law enforcement to establish restrictions and regulations across some of the most popular 14,000-foot peaks reached by Front Range populations. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) points to…
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Rock climbing in Colorado: 6 famed areas
Rock climbing has become a talent honed inside a gym. But it’s the outdoor walls for which Colorado is known. Near Cañon City, Shelf Road is but one of the state’s premier areas. Here’s a look at others: Black Canyon of the Gunnison “The Black” is an ominous, fitting title for a guidebook to this…