Tag: Montrose
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Air Academy’s Landry Frost leads 4A state girls golf individual race, Kadets’ team in second
MONTROSE – Despite an improved weather forecast, The Bridges will still be under a Frost warning on Tuesday. With conditions about as miserable as any in recent memory, the field at the 4A girls state golf tournament on Monday still let defending champion Landry Frost take a one-shot lead into the second and final round…
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Surfing in Colorado? Yes, and it’s booming where you might least expect it
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Eric Thomas spent the 1980s and ’90s surfing waves off Florida, California and Hawaii, with other stops around the Bahamas and tropics in what became a professional career on the oceans. Then he looked to a land-locked state. “I wanted something totally different,” Thomas said.…
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Montrose, CHSAA address slurs and swastika Mesa Ridge football team found in locker room
Representatives for Montrose High School and CHSAA on Monday offered comments regarding slurs and a swastika found in the visitor’s locker room Saturday prior to Mesa Ridge’s road playoff football game. Upon arrival for their quarterfinal in Montrose, Grizzlies players and coaches discovered a swastika and multiple racial and homophobic markings written in the dust…
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CDOT announces US 50 Blue Mesa Middle Bridge limited holiday opening
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Repairs to the closed US 50 Blue Mesa Middle Bridge between Gunnison and Montrose will allow a limited opening during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Colorado Department of Transportation officials opened a single lane at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday for smaller vehicles including passenger vehicles,…
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8 whitewater parks around Colorado
Drop into many of Colorado’s riverside towns and you won’t need to go far to find the culture of play. Increasingly over the years, towns have built and expanded central meeting places for enthusiastic kayakers, tubers and stand-up paddleboarders: whitewater parks of rock-made waves, drops and rapids. Whether you partake or spectate, here are eight…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: 9 favorite places
A storied, river-cut region on the state’s southeastern plains. A ridge spanning the alpine for miles and miles. A campground near the headwaters of the Colorado River, perfect for the family. The rocky, desert uplift dominating the Western Slope. The parks and open spaces right out our back doors. These were some of the places…
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Western Colorado’s Electric Hills trails are complete
Western Colorado mountain bikers are celebrating the completion of trails several years in the making. The system is called Electric Hills, webbing about 17 miles in the rolling, rocky countryside west of Montrose. Local advocates with Montrose Uncompahgre Trails (MUT) are now seeing the vision realized since it was presented to the Bureau of Land…
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Highly anticipated mountain bike trails close to complete in western Colorado
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A highly anticipated mountain bike trail system under construction in western Colorado is close to complete. In canyon country close to Montrose, advocates overseeing the network called Electric Hills expect all 17 miles of singletrack to be finished this fall, ahead of the seasonal closure for wintering wildlife from Dec. 1-April 15. The finish will…
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Nordic skiers celebrate new trails in western Colorado
Cross-country skiers in western Colorado are celebrating a new place to play. They were at a ribbon-cutting this month for a Nordic trail system spanning 8-plus miles through pine and aspen outside Montrose. That was after the U.S. Forest Service authorized the network situated near 9,000 feet on the Uncompahgre Plateau. The trails “offer a…
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Gifts from Colorado’s outdoors: 11 new trails, open spaces and happenings celebrated in 2022
Christmas gifts only come once a year. But gifts across Colorado’s great outdoors come year-round. Here, we reflect on developments around the Front Range and beyond that brought joy to enthusiasts — and will bring joy for many years to come. Anemone Trail Not long into 2022, after more than two years of stone-intensive construction,…