Tag: Fourteeners
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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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3 challenging summer hikes in Colorado to start planning now
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Longs Peak via the Keyhole Route: The only fourteener in Rocky Mountain National Park, Longs Peak (14,259 feet) requires some preparation — and plenty of nerve. Not only do you have to start hiking the 15-mile (round-trip) route, which rises some 5,000 feet in elevation,…
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Pikes Peak Plummet proves a memorable mountain biking ride down America’s Mountain
If the world was all but flat, if the tallest mountain on the planet had about 30 feet of vertical, there’d be some guy named Brody with a camera strapped to his chest ready to hurl himself down it on a bicycle. The YouTube video would be titled in all caps, punctuated by two to…
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Prolific Colorado Springs runner notches record on state’s highest peak
A Colorado Springs runner has claimed record speed up the state’s highest mountain. The de facto gatekeeper of such outdoor records, fastestknowntime.com, has entered Joseph Gray’s time of one hour, four minutes and 51 seconds as unmatched from the Halfmoon trailhead to the top of Mount Elbert above 14,400 feet. Gray logged the ascent covering…
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Colorado woman joins small ‘frozen fourteeners’ club
When she summited Capitol Peak on Jan. 24, Denver’s Natalie Moran joined an exclusive mountaineering club. It’s known in certain circles as the Frozen Fourteeners Club — a small band of enthusiasts with the fitness, know-how and thick skin to ascend all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in their imposing, perilous winter conditions. Respected in those…
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Happy Trails: Bagging three Colorado 14ers in one fell swoop
Belford-Oxford-Missouri loop Life is different above tree line. The wind blows harder. The sun shines brighter. And everything moves slower. There is, after all, a reason why trees stop growing at about 12,000 feet. Keep that in mind if you find yourself hiking through Missouri Gulch in the Sawatch Range of central Colorado. The trail…
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Meet the woman behind Colorado’s new 100-mountain record
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On her drive home after another ascent of 14,005-foot Mount of the Holy Cross, Andrea Sansone got a call from her boyfriend, Andrew Hamilton, who said a reporter was looking to interview her. “I was like, Why?” Sansone recalls. “Like, no one ever wants to…
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Joining the Colorado 14er craze this summer? Here’s where to start
Colorado’s prime fourteener season is still at least a few weeks away — snow clings to much of the high country — but controversy already simmers. For all of May, the popular trip known as DeCaLiBron is off-limits. Citing liability concerns, the landowner closed property on mounts Lincoln and Democrat, two along the trail covering…
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Survey gauging interest in possible reservations, shuttle at popular Colorado 14er
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As hiking crowds continue to surge at Colorado’s busiest 14,000-foot mountain, officials are wondering about the possibility of permits and shuttles. Online survey-takers are being asked “how likely” they would be to make reservations and board a ride to the Quandary Peak trailhead, off Colorado…
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942 hikers on one mountain in one day: a glimpse into record busy year for Colorado 14ers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The numbers are in from a season of stewardship on Colorado’s highest mountains. And some of the figures might be disturbing. For instance: 44,379 hikers were counted on Quandary Peak over the summer, what Colorado…