Tag: colorado 14ers
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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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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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Peak of the week No. 11: Culebra Peak
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Culebra is Spanish for snake. However, it is uncertain if Culebra Peak was named for snakes in the area, after the winding snake-like Culebra Creek that flows through the town of San Luis or the…
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El Paso County crews help search for hiker missing in Custer County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Rescue crews from five agencies, including El Paso County, are searching for a Colorado man who fell more than 200 feet near Crestone Peak on Tuesday. Capt. Bob Pruiksma, of Custer County Search and Rescue,…
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Trail up popular fourteener gets rerouting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ASPEN — By the time the sun rolls over the eastern ridge high above the Maroon Creek Valley in these waning days of summer, the members of a trail crew already have worked up a…
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Mount of the Holy Cross: Colorado’s Bermuda Triangle
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “There is a mountain in the distant WestThat, sun-defying, in its deep ravinesDisplays a cross of snow upon its side.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Cross of Snow”HOLY CROSS WILDERNESS, WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST • Photographers,…
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Mount of the Holy Cross
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s hard to see elusive Mount of the Holy Cross from any road — most people view it from the distance while skiing in Blue Sky basin at Vail Mountain — but those willing to…
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A cold night in paradise: Sleeping atop all of Colorado’s 14ers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When other mountain climbers hear about the “Sleeping On The Summits” project to spend the night atop each of the named 14,000-foot mountains in Colorado, their first reaction is: Are you crazy? “There’s a reason…
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Fourteeners group dedicated to preserving Colorado mountains, trails
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MOUNT OF THE HOLY CROSS WILDERNESS AREA — Every few steps along the rocky, rooty Flat Creek trail up to Notch Mountain and Mount of the Holy Cross, Ben Hanus huddles over his GPS, studying and…