Tag: 14ers
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Fast-rising Colorado mountain runner sets records across Himalayas
Alongside a few fellow American mountaineers, Chris Fisher recently celebrated his 29th birthday in an Irish pub perched high amid the Himalayas. This was no occasion for contemplating the future, the confines of time. And yet there Fisher was nights later, contemplating just that. The young Coloradan was near the end of a record-setting odyssey…
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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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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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Mass atop every Colorado 14er: Catholic priests take message to new heights
One of these days atop a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado, you might just spot two men in white robes, the wind blowing those vestments, their fingers cold on the chalices that are smaller than those typically seen on an altar — smaller for the pack on the way up. That’s Father John Nepil and Father…
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Another ‘milestone’ for new trail being built on Colorado 14er
The nonprofit builder of a new trail on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado is celebrating a “significant milestone” of a multi-year effort. That was the word from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative in a social media post announcing the opening of a second “bypass” on the lower slopes of Mount Shavano in Chaffee County. The first bypass…
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Colorado couple claims record across Colorado 14ers
A Colorado couple has claimed a new record across the state’s highest summits. Twelve days after they started in the San Juan Mountains, Andrea Sansone and Andrew Hamilton have reported an unlikely mission accomplished: a straight push through all 58 of the state’s peaks above 14,000 feet. “Unlikely” was indeed how the Golden couple put…
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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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A dive into vaunted speed records across Colorado’s outdoors
Joseph DeMoor has a confession to make. He knows it sounds silly, but he likes to see his name listed on the first page of fastestknowntime.com/athletes. There are, at last check, 487 pages you could scroll through — names listed with their number of fastest known times, or FKTs, as the rather obscure records are…
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Search underway for Colorado Springs man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park rangers started the search Monday for a 23-year-old Colorado Springs man who went missing on Longs Peak on Sunday. The National Park Service said Lucas Macaj was reported overdue late Sunday night after setting out to summit the 14,259-foot mountain. His car was later found at the Longs Peak trailhead parking…
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Amid controversy, new book traces detailed history of Colorado 14er names
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In 2017, during a meeting of the Denver Fortnightly Club, the historic literary organization founded and continued by women, Jeri Norgren listened to a reading about the group’s role in the naming of Mount Evans. The club signed a petition for the 14,000-foot mountain’s honoree,…