Tag: mountains
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Pine beetle infestation in Colorado’s Front Range forests prompts action from Gov. Polis
Pine beetle infestations are quickly spreading across large areas of Colorado’s ponderosa pine forests, evident from aerial surveys conducted by the U.S. Forest Service over the last year. The USFS surveys found beetle infestations in mountainous and foothill regions from Larimer County to El Paso County have been on the rise over the last year,…
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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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Vince Bzdek: The distinct personalities and pull of Colorado’s many mountain ranges
It’s summertime, and the lucky among us are off cavorting in one of Colorado’s majestic mountain ranges. For those of you still trying to decide which range to ramble off to as the July Fourth holiday arrives, here’s a quick comparison of the different merits and moods of each of our major ranges. This is…
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Alongside unlikely team, teen in wheelchair summits Pikes Peak
As day broke on the final Sunday of August, a train of people in purple shirts rose through the treeline of Pikes Peak, onward to the tundra and most critical juncture of a two-day journey. There were more than 50 of them, mostly strangers from Colorado Springs and beyond. They had met the day before…
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Colorado 14er hiking continues to drop, according to report
Compared with record numbers from 2020, it appears hiking has sharply dropped across Colorado’s biggest mountains. That’s according to Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, which recently released its annual estimates of “hiker use days,” the nonprofit’s term representing an individual at a peak on a given day, aiming to be more accurate than the term “hikers.” (“Anecdotally…
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Alongside unlikely team, Colorado Springs teen in wheelchair summits Pikes Peak
As day broke on the final Sunday of August, a train of people in purple shirts rose through the treeline of Pikes Peak, onward to the tundra and most critical juncture of a two-day journey. There were more than 50 of them, mostly strangers from Colorado Springs and beyond. They had met the day before…
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Colorado 14er hiking continues to drop, according to report
Compared with record numbers from 2020, it appears hiking has sharply dropped across Colorado’s biggest mountains. That’s according to Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, which recently released its annual estimates of “hiker use days,” the nonprofit’s term representing an individual at a peak on a given day, aiming to be more accurate than the term “hikers.” (“Anecdotally…