Author: Seth Boster
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Meeting to discuss future of popular reservoirs on Pikes Peak
Colorado Springs Utilities has scheduled a meeting to discuss the future of beloved waters on Pikes Peak. Off the Pikes Peak Highway, North Slope Recreation Area encompasses North and South Catamount and Crystal Creek reservoirs – what Utilities calls “essential to the city’s water supply system.” Protecting these drinking water sources while serving anglers, paddlers,…
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Meeting to discuss future of popular reservoirs on Pikes Peak
Colorado Springs Utilities has scheduled a meeting to discuss the future of beloved waters on Pikes Peak. Off the Pikes Peak Highway, North Slope Recreation Area encompasses North and South Catamount and Crystal Creek reservoirs – what Utilities calls “essential to the city’s water supply system.” Protecting these drinking water sources while serving anglers, paddlers,…
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Kilian Jornet completes record feat across 72 14ers, starting in Colorado
For an epic test of endurance across Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks and all others of the Lower 48 states, mission accomplished. “States of Elevation: finished,” read the recent post on Kilian Jornet’s social media. “72 fourteeners in 31 days, linked only by running and riding.” More numbers boggled the minds of fans following from afar since…
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Kilian Jornet completes record feat across 72 14ers, starting in Colorado
For an epic test of endurance across Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks and all others of the Lower 48 states, mission accomplished. “States of Elevation: finished,” read the recent post on Kilian Jornet’s social media. “72 fourteeners in 31 days, linked only by running and riding.” More numbers boggled the minds of fans following from afar since…
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Touring Colorado’s most famous and wondrous cliff dwelling
MONTEZUMA COUNTY • Why did the people leave? This was the question of tourists standing high on a platform overlooking round and square towers and circular gathering places built eight centuries ago under an arching, sandstone overhang. The site here in the remote wilds of southwest Colorado is known as Cliff Palace. It’s the biggest…
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Shining Mountain, Bergstrom Park purchases scheduled for public hearings
The Oct. 16 meeting of the Woodland Park City Council is shaping up to be among the most consequential in recent memory. The Council approved two ordinances on first reading during the Oct. 2 meeting, sending them both to a public hearing at the next meeting, which will be Oct. 16. Both concern major acquisitions…
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Touring Colorado’s most famous and wondrous cliff dwelling
MONTEZUMA COUNTY • Why did the people leave? This was the question of tourists standing high on a platform overlooking round and square towers and circular gathering places built eight centuries ago under an arching, sandstone overhang. The site here in the remote wilds of southwest Colorado is known as Cliff Palace. It’s the biggest…
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Whiskey collection is one of a kind at famed Colorado hotel
ESTES PARK • In the lower level of one of Colorado’s most famous hotels, at the end of a hallway across from a secret tunnel, strangers sit around a narrow table in a narrow, warmly lit room. A host stands at the head of the table. “We’re gonna have some fun,” he says. The whiskey…
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Whiskey collection is one of a kind at famed Colorado hotel
ESTES PARK • In the lower level of one of Colorado’s most famous hotels, at the end of a hallway across from a secret tunnel, strangers sit around a narrow table in a narrow, warmly lit room. A host stands at the head of the table. “We’re gonna have some fun,” he says. The whiskey…
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When will Colorado’s ski season kick off? A look at 20 years of opening dates
Snow has fallen across Colorado’s high country, and temperatures have been cold enough for some ski resorts to fire snow guns and start building up bases. The race to open is on. Arapahoe Basin has regularly kicked off the state’s ski season and won bragging rights. Keystone has joined the race in recent years, thanks…