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Happy Trails: Indian Creek Trail
Mount San Luis/Knight's Peak hike
Best fall hikes
Inside Colorado's largest wilderness area
Elder-Fehn and Vayhinger trails - Catamount Ranch Open Space
Exploring the Holy Cross Wilderness
Great Colorado Lake Hikes
Waldo Canyon - the trail that was
Happy Trails: Dawson Butte Trail
Blodgett Peak hike
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Off the beaten path on Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak is much more than a 14,115-foot heap of uplifted granite. While appearing monolithic from a patio in town, it's an amazingly complex mountain, with long sloping valleys, pine-studded hills, forbidding cliffs, hidden hollows and miles...... Full story
Glenwood Canyon recreation path reopens
GLENWOOD SPRINGS - The Glenwood Canyon bike and recreation path reopened on Friday for the season, nearly a month later than last year, after its usual wintertime closure. Last spring, the Colorado Department of Transportation was able to open the...... Full story
Volunteers come to the ranger rescue in Glenwood Canyon
CARBONDALE - An organization dedicated to protecting the region's "backyard" is stepping up to provide volunteer trail patrols at the popular Hanging Lake area in Glenwood Canyon this summer. In fact, that's what the Carbondale-based nonprofit, the...... Full story
Dialing down the danger
Gary Scott has been to the top enough. He reached the summit of Alaska’s Denali (Mount McKinley) in a breathless, one-day assault of a peak that takes mere mortals a week or more. He guided two climbs up Mount Everest, going as far as 27,500...... Full story
Safety concerns keep forests off-limits
The forests along more than 10 miles of Rampart Range Road and the Waldo Canyon hiking trail will remain closed because of safety concerns, a U.S. Forest Service official said last week. Frank Landis, the manager of recreation and travel for the...... Full story
Body found in Black Canyon of the Gunnison park
GUNNISON — Rangers looking for an overdue backpacker at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park have found a body about 1,000 feet below the canyon's South Rim. The victim's name wasn't immediately released Tuesday. Rangers say it...... Full story
Search crews recount dramatic Calif. hiker rescue
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. — At first, the rescuers couldn't believe their ears: After four days of grueling searching, they suddenly heard a faint female voice calling for help. Over the next 90 agonizing minutes, the cries for help...... Full story
2nd lost hiker rescued from Calif. forest
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. — A young woman missing in a Southern California forest since setting out on a Sunday hike was rescued from a rocky ledge on a steep slope Thursday, authorities said. Kyndall Jack, 18, was hoisted out of...... Full story
Some trails along Bear Creek may be closed to protect fish
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to close several miles of trails along Bear Creek west of Colorado Springs to the public to protect an endangered fish. The area is popular with hikers and mountain bike and dirt bike riders. But research found...... Full story
40 hikers rescued; were lost on Ky. mountain
WHITESBURG, Ky. — More than three dozen Pennsylvania college students spending spring break in Kentucky on a mission trip were safe Friday after becoming lost for hours when a sightseeing mountain hike unexpectedly stretched into the night,...... Full story
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