Tag: grand canyon
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Colorado Springs ministry helps those with disabilities explore nature
Within Lincoln Mountain Open Space, which sits in the eastern plains of Douglas County, is a place special to Mark Maloney. After hiking 30 minutes up the park’s small mountain, he would settle in an area atop the mesa, near the northwest corner. There, he said, you could see the entire Front Range. The 88-year-old…
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National parks are fantasy worlds in the maps of a Colorado artist
Not long ago in his parents’ Colorado Springs home, a young man came by his boyhood pen. This was the Lamy Safari Fountain pen Alex Burden had used some 20 years ago during elementary school in Germany. “The last time I used one was in third grade,” he recalled. Now he got an idea. With…
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National parks are fantasy worlds in the maps of a Colorado artist
Not long ago in his parents’ Colorado Springs home, a young man came by his boyhood pen. This was the Lamy Safari Fountain pen Alex Burden had used some 20 years ago during elementary school in Germany. “The last time I used one was in third grade,” he recalled. Now he got an idea. With…
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National parks are fantasy worlds in the maps of a Colorado artist
Not long ago in his parents’ Colorado Springs home, a young man came by his boyhood pen. This was the Lamy Safari Fountain pen Alex Burden had used some 20 years ago during elementary school in Germany. “The last time I used one was in third grade,” he recalled. Now he got an idea. With…
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UCCS student to direct all-female cast of ‘Men on Boats’ comedy in Colorado Springs
You might furrow your brow when the cast of “Men on Boats” arrives on stage. Because they’re all women. The casting decision for the show, set in 1869, is on purpose, of course, and meant to satirize the machismo of intrepid male explorers of yore who set out across our great country to discover land…
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Colorado River management may change under Biden administration
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The new Biden administration could take action on the Colorado River that would go well beyond the president-elect’s term in office. The week of Dec. 14, the seven states that are part of the Colorado…
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Colorado River management may change under Biden administration
The new Biden administration could take action on the Colorado River that would go well beyond the president-elect’s term in office. The week of Dec. 14, the seven states that are part of the Colorado River Compact began the first step for renegotiating guidelines that will decide how much water the three lower basin states…
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Another Grand Canyon death as visitor falls from edge
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Another visitor to Grand Canyon National Park has died after falling over the edge of the South Rim, authorities said Tuesday. A 70-year-old woman fell about 200 feet (61 meters) over the rim, the second over-the-edge death this month…
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Another Grand Canyon death as visitor falls from edge
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Another visitor to Grand Canyon National Park has died after falling over the edge of the South Rim, authorities said Tuesday. A 70-year-old woman fell about 200 feet (61 meters) over the rim, the second over-the-edge death this month within the confines of the park, according to Grand Canyon…