Tag: Mount Shavano
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Progress on new trail up Colorado 14er
A new trail continues to take shape on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado. Near the end of a fourth season of work, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) has announced opening another rerouted section of the path up Mount Shavano. The nonprofit is counting more than 1 1/2 miles of new trail finished across the mountain’s lower…
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‘Best office in the world’: Busy summer of trail work on Colorado 14ers
Five years ago, Carl Woody’s first job out of grad school took him to the slopes of Pikes Peak. “Best office in the world right there,” said the program director with Colorado Springs nonprofit Rocky Mountain Field Institute. His task: to build a new trail to the top of the peak above 14,000 feet. It’s…
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Another ‘milestone’ for new trail being built on Colorado 14er
The nonprofit builder of a new trail on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado is celebrating a “significant milestone” of a multi-year effort. That was the word from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative in a social media post announcing the opening of a second “bypass” on the lower slopes of Mount Shavano in Chaffee County. The first bypass…
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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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Some Colorado 14ers have closed after legal wrangle. What might be next?
Owners of properties where Coloradans hike and play in the outdoors had hoped to feel better about allowing that access after a hearing this month at the state Capitol. Instead, some are feeling more worried than ever. That includes Patrick Schilken, who has long held land along the base of 14,000-foot Mount Sherman in Park…
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After disaster in Colorado mountains, getting back on the trail was only the start of recovery
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LIFE | After a disaster in Colorado mountains, new feet were just part of Springs man’s recovery Play Video 00:00 00:00 spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster ↑↓volume mmute ←→seek . seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%,…
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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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New trail project slated for Colorado 14er
One of Colorado’s mountains above 14,000 feet will see a major, multi-year trail project start this summer, as recently announced by Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI). Lloyd Athearn, executive director of the nonprofit stewarding the state’s biggest mountains, said the first phase of work along Mount Shavano will launch thanks to various funding sources amounting to…