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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Denver International Airport braces for busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend
Nearly 600,000 travelers are expected to come through the Denver International Airport’s TSA checkpoints from Nov. 18 through Saturday, according to a news release. Denver’s airport is the third-busiest airport in the world and generates $33 billion for the region annually, according to the release. The busiest days of travel were estimated to be Tuesday…
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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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A look at 20-plus Colorado 14ers named for people, as Evans change is contended
In 2017, Jeri Norgren discovered a personal, indirect connection to the controversy swirling around the name of one of Colorado’s highest peaks. A fifth-generation native and history buff, Norgren was a member at a meeting for the 141-year-old literary organization Denver Fortnightly Club. There was mention of the group’s “instrumental” role in christening Mount Evans.…
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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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Colorado Fourteeners Initiative recaps year of work across several mountains
Colorado’s leading agency committed to safe, environmentally friendly trails on the state’s biggest mountains recently released a 2021 recap of work across several slopes. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative returned to the state’s highest peak this summer, after last year finishing new trail construction on Mount Elbert’s east ridge. Now multi-year construction focuses on the northeast ridge.…
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Colorado Fourteeners Initiative recaps year of work across several mountains
Colorado’s leading agency committed to safe, environmentally friendly trails on the state’s biggest mountains recently released a 2021 recap of work across several slopes. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative returned to the state’s highest peak this summer, after last year finishing new trail construction on Mount Elbert’s east ridge. Now multi-year construction focuses on the northeast ridge.…
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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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Progress made on several Colorado fourteener trails, including one on Pikes Peak
Another season of trail work has come to a close across Colorado’s highest, heavily trampled mountains. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, the stewarding nonprofit based in Golden, has announced missions accomplished at mounts Elbert and Columbia. For the fourth and final season on Elbert’s east ridge, crews near 12,700 feet focused re-routing efforts through a talus field…