Tag: Sawatch Range
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New book features 45 high alpine trail runs in Colorado — we asked for some favorites
As a teenager in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, Annalise Grueter could not believe the order of her cross country team coach. “We were going to be hiking/jogging a (13,000-foot mountain) for training that July day,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘What are we doing? This is a thing?’” Flash forward to today, running up mountains…
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Meet the woman behind Colorado’s new 100-mountain record
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On her drive home after another ascent of 14,005-foot Mount of the Holy Cross, Andrea Sansone got a call from her boyfriend, Andrew Hamilton, who said a reporter was looking to interview her. “I was like, Why?” Sansone recalls. “Like, no one ever wants to…
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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…