Tag: james peak wilderness
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Colorado off-road enthusiasts propose return to scenic route over Continental Divide
Efforts have reemerged to reopen a formerly famous route crossing the Continental Divide in Colorado. Off-roading groups recently submitted a letter to the U.S. Forest Service requesting access to a rugged track that has been off-limits for several decades. By reopening a stretch of the Boulder Wagon Road — a toll road in the 1890s…
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Pikes Peak’s first recorded climber had wilderness named for him, but larger dreams failed
Mark James contemplates his great-great-great-great-great uncle, the renowned peak the man famously ascended and the little-known summit that instead took his name elsewhere in Colorado. At 14,115 feet, Pikes Peak boasts a more “convoluted landscape,” James says. “All those boulder fields and arroyos and fall-offs and abysses.” The well-traveled backpacker living near the Colorado-Wyoming border…