Tag: Mount Elbert
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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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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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History everywhere you look on Leadville’s Harrison Avenue | Main Street Colorado
About the series Main Street Colorado is a summer series spotlighting downtown stretches of mountain towns that altogether give the state its undeniable character. In walking around Leadville, the imagination naturally runs wild — wild as the West that built this town. It was gold and silver that built this Victorian hamlet. And at a…
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Denver International Airport expects surge over spring break
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver International Airport officials are preparing for an influx of travelers coming and leaving for spring break. Travel volumes are expected to increase to around 190,000 passengers per day on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. This number is just shy of the pre-pandemic numbers recorded…
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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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This massive Colorado mountain lives up to its name
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s second highest peak is an intermediate-level fourteener that lives up to its tremendous name. Mount Massive rises to 14,421 feet in elevation, offering some of the better views in the country. While the standard route is a 14-mile, Class 2 climb up the eastern…