Tag: colorado fourteeners initiative
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Ascent to the heavens: Hundreds climb Colorado’s fourteeners to mark 150 years of statehood
Residents celebrated Colorado’s 150th birthday in high fashion Saturday, marking the moment by climbing the state’s 14,000-foot mountain peaks. The Denver Gazette sent climbers up Mount Bierstadt near Georgetown and up Quandary Peak near Breckenridge to follow the action. A volunteer from Colorado Fourteener Initiative (CFI) waited at the trailhead for Mount Bierstadt when a…
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Progress on new trail up Colorado 14er
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new trail continues to take shape on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado. Near the end of a fourth season of work, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) has announced opening another rerouted section of the path…
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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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‘Best office in the world’: Busy summer of trail work on Colorado 14ers
Five years ago, Carl Woody’s first job out of grad school took him to the slopes of Pikes Peak. “Best office in the world right there,” said the program director with Colorado Springs nonprofit Rocky Mountain Field Institute. His task: to build a new trail to the top of the peak above 14,000 feet. It’s…
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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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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 14ers to see new trail construction, maintenance this summer
The nonprofit leader in building and maintaining trails on Colorado’s highest peaks enters the field season with plans to progress on an unprecedented project. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative is celebrating 30 years this summer. Mount Shavano represents “the most massive project that CFI has ever undertaken,” the organization’s executive director, Lloyd Athearn, has said. Eight years…