Author: R. Scott Rappold
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Colorado Springs has some amazing homebrewers … Here are five of the best
Inside every successful commercial brewer beats the heart of a home brewer. And vice-versa. You’d be hard-pressed to find a brewery owner who didn’t get started with plastic buckets in a garage or basement. Many of the dozens of small breweries that have opened in Colorado this year were launched by home brewers looking to…
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Forest Service to burn brush piles
If you see smoke in the distance from Woodland Park, Monument or Divide over the next few months, no need to panic. The U.S. Forest Service announced this week that it will start annual burning of slash and brush piles, collected from forest thinning projects, in about a week. On days when weather cooperates –…
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After floods and federal shutdown, Rocky Mountain National Park bouncing back
ESTES PARK- Autumn is Jean Langel’s favorite time to visit Rocky Mountain National Park. The aspens are golden, the elk are filling the valleys with the bugling and sparring of the rut and there just aren’t as many people around. When she wanted to visit a few weeks ago, however, a park that’s supposed to…
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happy trails: DREAM LAKE TRAIL
If you have been to Rocky Mountain National Park, you probably hiked this mega-popular trail from the Bear Lake trailhead to a stunning alpine lake. You probably had lots of company and may have had to take the shuttle bus from a far-off parking lot just to get close to the trailhead. Visit in the…
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BOULDER – I accepted this assignment with trepidation. The People’s Republic of Boulder. The hub of liberalism that produced infamous professor Ward Churchill. The party college where thousands gather every April 20 to smoke marijuana. Surely, someone from Colorado Springs, the polar opposite of Boulder in so many ways, would not be welcome here. Perhaps…
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Archery range opens at Cheyenne Mountain State Park
Archers and bow hunters in the Pikes Peak region got a new playground last week when Cheyenne Mountain State Park opened a long-awaited archery range. The range, located along Colorado Highway 115 and Pine Oaks Road, is south of the main entrance to the state park. It’s the first public archery range locally that’s not…
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Pikes Pub: Great American Beer Festival driven by passion for brews
DENVER – When Charlie Papazian first threw a little party here 31 years ago to celebrate the art of craft brewing, the national beer landscape was barren. “There were only about 42 breweries left in the United States. They were mostly all producing light lager beers,” recalled the president of the Brewers Association. “They were…
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More than 600 breweries in one convention hall. More than 3,000 beers to try. The Great American Beer Festival is a must for Colorado beer lovers. It takes over the Colorado Convention Center in Denver through Saturday. Sure, tickets sold out nearly instantly. But prices have been dropping on the secondary market, and as of…
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Colorado ski passes offer plenty of options this season
In the old days of skiing, you bought a pass for one area and that’s where you skied. Welcome to the new days of skiing. This season, more than ever, ski passes are all about options. Monarch Mountain’s season pass now includes skiing at Copper Mountain, Winter Park and Steamboat Springs, and the Rocky Mountain…
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Colorado Springs brewers hope to make splash at primo beer festival in Denver
DENVER – At the stroke of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, the doors of the Colorado Convention Center opened and thousands of thirsty people, some who had been waiting in line for hours, poured in. Mike Bristol of Colorado Springs was among the 624 brewers waiting to quench their thirst. He’s been coming to the Great American…