Tag: Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
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Progress on new trail up Colorado 14er
A new trail continues to take shape on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado. Near the end of a fourth season of work, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) has announced opening another rerouted section of the path up Mount Shavano. The nonprofit is counting more than 1 1/2 miles of new trail finished across the mountain’s lower…
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Alt-rock: Why some jam to the less-traveled, extreme sides of Colorado 14ers
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 had grown up in the state, Hamilton was familiar with…
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‘Best office in the world’: Busy summer of trail work on Colorado 14ers
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 to the top of the peak above 14,000 feet. It’s…
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Colorado 14er hiking continues to drop, according to report
Compared with record numbers from 2020, it appears hiking has sharply dropped across Colorado’s biggest mountains. That’s according to Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, which recently released its annual estimates of “hiker use days,” the nonprofit’s term representing an individual at a peak on a given day, aiming to be more accurate than the term “hikers.” (“Anecdotally…
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Another ‘milestone’ for new trail being built on Colorado 14er
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 slopes of Mount Shavano in Chaffee County. The first bypass…
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Colorado 14ers to see new trail construction, maintenance this summer
The nonprofit leader in building and maintaining trails on Colorado’s highest peaks enters the field season with plans to progress on an unprecedented project. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative is celebrating 30 years this summer. Mount Shavano represents “the most massive project that CFI has ever undertaken,” the organization’s executive director, Lloyd Athearn, has said. Eight years…
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Purchase of Colorado 14er praised as ‘landmark transaction’ for future of access
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Access to a controversial cluster of 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado has a new fate thanks to a “landmark transaction,” in the words of one advocate. The Conservation Fund, a leading nonprofit in land and water conservation across the nation, announced Thursday it had secured nearly…
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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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‘Visioning effort’ launches ahead of plan for Colorado 14ers
A new initiative seeks to identify problems and solutions regarding Colorado’s biggest mountains. Nonprofit steward Colorado Fourteeners Initiative has called it “a visioning effort designed to produce a statewide plan” for the peaks that have seen record visitation in recent years, according to CFI data. Aurora Borealis spotted by Coloradans in rare celestial event By…
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New trail project slated for Colorado 14er
One of Colorado’s mountains above 14,000 feet will see a major, multi-year trail project start this summer, as recently announced by Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI). Lloyd Athearn, executive director of the nonprofit stewarding the state’s biggest mountains, said the first phase of work along Mount Shavano will launch thanks to various funding sources amounting to…