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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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Surfing in Colorado? Yes, and it’s booming where you might least expect it
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Eric Thomas spent the 1980s and ’90s surfing waves off Florida, California and Hawaii, with other stops around the Bahamas and tropics in what became a professional career on the oceans. Then he looked to…
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Colorado Springs photographer creates whimsical, digitized portraits of kids
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The idea of a school or family portrait evokes a particular image in your mind. Perhaps that of an awkward child posed against a fake fence in front of a fake forest backdrop. Or a…
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Kayaker who died on the Arkansas River Friday identified as Arizona resident
The 35-year-old man who died after his kayak capsized on the Arkansas River near Buena Vista Friday has been identified by the Chaffee County Coroner. Ethan Sandoval was on the river with another person until their inflatable kayaks capsized while going downstream. Sandoval became unconscious after capsizing in the frigid water, and the other kayaker…
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35-year-old kayaker dies on Arkansas River in ‘tragic accident’ near Buena Vista
A 35-year-old man is dead after his kayak capsized Friday on the Arkansas River near Buena Vista, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The man was kayaking with someone else until their crafts capsized going down the river. The man became unconscious after capsizing, and the other kayaker swam to shore. Parks and Wildlife stated…
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Camping by a lake in Colorado: 8 places we love
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There’s nothing quite like opening the flap of your tent in the morning to the view of a lake, watching the rising sun’s warm glow dance across the water that reflects Colorado’s mountain majesty. Yes, in setting a course for a camping trip this summer, we’re thinking about lakes. We’re thinking about these: Chicago Lakes…
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Camping by a lake in Colorado: 8 places we love
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There’s nothing quite like opening the flap of your tent in the morning to the view of a lake, watching the rising sun’s warm glow dance across the water that reflects Colorado’s mountain majesty. Yes, in setting a course for a camping trip this summer, we’re thinking about lakes. We’re thinking about these: Chicago Lakes…
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Camping by a lake in Colorado: 8 places we love
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There’s nothing quite like opening the flap of your tent in the morning to the view of a lake, watching the rising sun’s warm glow dance across the water that reflects Colorado’s mountain majesty. Yes, in setting a course for a camping trip this summer, we’re thinking about lakes. We’re thinking about these: Chicago Lakes…
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Camping by a lake in Colorado: 8 places we love
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There’s nothing quite like opening the flap of your tent in the morning to the view of a lake, watching the rising sun’s warm glow dance across the water that reflects Colorado’s mountain majesty. Yes, in setting a course for a camping trip this summer, we’re thinking about lakes. We’re thinking about these: Chicago Lakes…
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A look at 9 Colorado passes over the Continental Divide — and what to see on the drives
Call it the great separator, or the thing that unifies us as Coloradans. That’s the Continental Divide, or the Great Divide, so named for the mighty formation that separates our North American watersheds between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. In Colorado, we know it as the rugged wall between the Front Range and the Western…