Tag: Denver-gazette
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Your 2021 Colorado bucket list for outdoor adventure
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For better or for worse, the pandemic gave many of us more opportunities to achieve our outdoor goals. We crossed off much from our bucket lists in 2020. Yet still, Colorado never ceases to beckon. For your consideration this year: Pay respects to the ancestors…
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Happy Trails: Getting up close and personal with Boulder’s Flatirons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save First and Second Flatirons, Boulder At the Chautauqua Park trailhead, you’re ideally captivated by the immediate view of Boulder’s iconic landmark: the Flatirons, those slanting, geologic marvels against the forested mountainside. More likely here, you’re…
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Soldiers can ski for free at this Colorado resort
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s not often you hear about free skiing on Colorado’s commercial slopes. But at one resort near the Front Range, that is the promise all season for men and women serving in the armed forces. With its season set to kick off Friday, Granby Ranch…
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Happy Trails: Not ‘keyhole’ of 14er fame, but scenic landmark nonetheless in northern Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Devil’s Backbone, Loveland In response to booming growth that threatened to cover northern Colorado with houses and malls and such, Larimer County voters in 1995 decided to funnel portions of sales tax dollars to a fund dedicated to preservation. The first beneficiary was a hilly…
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On heels of wolf debate in Colorado, could wolverines be next?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When the opportunity came in 2008, when the rare wolverine presented itself just in time for the technology to meet it, researchers in Wyoming took advantage. M56, as he became known, was almost 2 years old and weighed a healthy 30 pounds. A tracking device…
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‘Hot action’ commands this sweet shop in Glenwood Springs | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GLENWOOD SPRINGS • It’s just past 9 a.m., and the party is on at Sweet Coloradough. Outside this blue shack, where a bus displays the company motto of “Awesome, Super Awesome, Ridiculously Awesome,” the parking lot is packed with people wanting to get a taste…
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Climbing film fest goes virtual, with big star set to host
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An annual celebration of climbing cinema with roots in Colorado is going virtual this pandemic year. For any disappointment that may bring, fans will be glad to know the sport’s biggest star will be coming…
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Tips to winter camping from Colorado’s polar king
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While others may turn on the heat and bundle up with a cup of hot cocoa come winter in Colorado, Eric Larsen is bound for the frigid wilds. Actually, he does this year-round — leaving…
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Happy Trails: ‘Peak’ or rock pile, view spectacular atop this Golden high point
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Lichen Peak, Golden North Table Mountain is the centerpiece of a 2,000-acre Jefferson County park in Golden, commanding the view in town along with its twin, similarly lava-formed mesa of South Table Mountain. It’s a…
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Free entry to Colorado state parks for Fresh Air Friday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Fresh Air Friday will once again be honored in Colorado, with entrance fees waived across the 42 state parks the day after Thanksgiving. The tradition falls on a furlough day for state employees, as designated by the government in September to curb the coronavirus pandemic’s…