Tag: 14ers
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Colorado’s 14er base camps: Where to climb and spoil yourself afterward
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Snow has melted from Colorado’s high country. Consider it nature’s invitation to climb. The state’s tallest summits await. So many to do. So little time. The most avid climber needs a base camp, a place…
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Late season snow and new weather station for Pikes Peak
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I spy with my naked eye patches of white amid the shadowy terrain of the north face of Pikes Peak, which is visible from some neighborhoods in Teller County. But August drifts into September, the…
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Late season snow and new weather station for Pikes Peak
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I spy with my naked eye patches of white amid the shadowy terrain of the north face of Pikes Peak, which is visible from some neighborhoods in Teller County. But August drifts into September, the…
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Late season snow and new weather station for Pikes Peak
A new high-tech weather station on the summit will track the mountain’s unique climate.
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Tracking the unexpected: Pikes Peak is getting a new high-tech weather station
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I spy with my naked eye patches of white amid the shadowy terrain of the north face of Pikes Peak, which is visible from some neighborhoods in Teller County. But in late August, the cold…
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New report finds Colorado 14er hiking ticking up from previous low
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s tallest peaks continue to see far fewer people compared with record waves from five years ago. That’s according to the latest hiking estimates from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI), the nonprofit tracking annual numbers. The count was around 415,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time…
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New report finds Colorado 14er hiking ticking up from previous low
Colorado’s tallest peaks continue to see far fewer people compared with record waves from five years ago. That’s according to the latest hiking estimates from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI), the nonprofit that annually tracks numbers. The count was around 415,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time that saw unprecedented surges across the outdoors with the…
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Alt-rock: Why some jam to the less-traveled, extreme sides of Colorado 14ers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the 1990s, Andrew Hamilton was guiding river trips and in his spare time scaling Colorado’s highest peaks when he came by a book. It was the first edition of “Colorado’s Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs,” by legendary mountaineer Gerry Roach. Like many others who…
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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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Private 14er in Colorado opens hiking reservations
Reservations have opened to hike a privately owned 14,000-foot mountain in southern Colorado. The mountain is “like no other,” reads the billing on Cielo Vista Ranch’s website: “Culebra Peak offers a unique climbing experience. Unlike any other fourteener in Colorado, hiking impacts are largely absent — Culebra is essentially ‘untrailed.’” Unlike every fourteener sitting on public…