Tag: colorado 14ers
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Colorado couple plans ‘monster’ 14er record attempt
A Colorado mountaineering power couple has announced a bold record pursuit. No strangers to speedy feats across the state’s 14,000-foot peaks, Andrew Hamilton and Andrea Sansone of Golden plan to embark next week on a mission bagging all 58 summits in a fashion never marked before. Hamilton, known as “the King of Fourteeners,” holds a…
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Pikes Peak Marathon group to drug test starting this week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the interest of fair play and clean sport, Pikes Peak Marathon Inc. announced it will conduct independent drug testing at its 2018 running races. Testing will begin Sunday at the 42nd running of the…
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Trail erosion nets low grades for several Colorado 14ers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Peak baggers prepare to shell out: The trails you love to climb to 14,000-foot summits will cost $24 million to build or replace. That’s the upshot of a new report by Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a…
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Trail erosion nets low grades for several Colorado 14ers
Peak baggers prepare to shell out: The trails you love to climb to 14,000-foot summits will cost $24 million to build or replace. That’s the upshot of a new report by Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a Denver-based nonprofit that spent three years evaluating trails on 14,000-foot peaks for sustainability and gauging their impact on fragile alpine…
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Digging out on Pikes Peak
Crews battle Mother Nature as they try to clear the snow on the highway to the summit of Pikes Peak Friday, May 29, 2015 after record amounts or precipitation hits the Colorado Springs area. Photos by Christian Murdock/The Gazette
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AdAmAn Club starts up Pikes Peak
AdAmAn members start the hike to the summit of Pikes Peak Tuesday, December 30, 2014 to set off fireworks at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The climb is in its 93rd year.
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2014 Pikes Peak Ascent
Highlights from the 59th running of the race to the top of 14,115-foot Pikes Peak Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014.
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Preparing for race day
Volunteers prepare for the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon this weekend by hauling supplies and water to aid stations on Pikes Peak Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014.
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Mountains can teach tough lessons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The beauty attracts us. The danger entices us. The challenge motivates us. So we go, we hike, we climb — all for the chance to stand atop a pinnacle. It’s the allure of fourteeners —…
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Mountains can teach tough lessons
The beauty attracts us. The danger entices us. The challenge motivates us. So we go, we hike, we climb — all for the chance to stand atop a pinnacle. It’s the allure of fourteeners — Colorado’s collection of peaks that stand above the rest. The mountains reside in a class of their own simply because…