Tag: Rocky Mountain Field Institute
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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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New trail to the top of Pikes Peak gets major funding: ‘Super stoked’
Years-long work on a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak will go into the summer with a head of steam. That’ll be in the form of funding that Rocky Mountain Field Institute (RMFI) Executive Director Jolie NeSmith described as a relief. “Super stoked,” she said of $250,000 recently announced from Colorado Parks and…
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Challenges continue for new trail up Pikes Peak as builder eyes funding
Crews this summer inched closer in a years-long effort to build a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak. For a fifth season, Colorado Springs nonprofit Rocky Mountain Field Institute (RMFI) led Rocky Mountain Youth Corps cadres in building a Devils Playground trail to replace the existing summiting path, long seen as eroded, unsafe…
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Hopes for ‘big year’ of building new trail up Pikes Peak
The effort to build a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak is entering a fifth summer — what figures to be “a big year,” according to the project leader. Since 2020, Rocky Mountain Field Institute’s Carl Woody has overseen progress on a rerouted Devils Playground Trail hampered by pandemic-related complications. While often short-handed…
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New trail up Pikes Peak progressing slowly amid challenges
Slowly but surely is the message regarding progress on a new trail up Pikes Peak. Rocky Mountain Field Institute staff and youth crews camped out on the backside of the 14,115-foot mountain for a fourth season of building a summit path to replace the eroded Devil’s Playground Trail. After two years of contending with COVID-19…
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Construction set to continue on new trail to Pikes Peak summit
Construction will be “ramping up” this summer on a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak. That’s how Jennifer Peterson describes plans for the third season of realigning the Devil’s Playground route on the backside of the 14,115-foot mountain. “We’re anticipating 100 (work) days this year,” said Peterson, executive director of project-coordinating Rocky Mountain…
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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…