LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount Elbert, provides a textbook Rocky Mountain ...

LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount Elbert, provides a textbook Rocky Mountain ...

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

Colorado Fourteeners Initiative has worked on 35 of the state’s 58 mountains higher than 14,000 feet, fixing ‘social trails’ created by climbers taking the most direct route to the summit MOUNT ELBERT ...

PUEBLO (AP) — When Scott Garcia sets out to hike up some of Colorado’s highest peaks, the trail to the top starts with extreme focus, a keen way with memorizing maps and numbers and a passion to get ...

Mike Epke, left, and Aaron Payne make the final push to the summit of Handies Peak in the San Juan Mountains. The hikers have both completed more than 40 of Colorado’s 58 fourteeners. Colorado’s ...

CASCADE, CO — Over three decades and countless miles, Loretta McEllhiney has designed (or realigned) all but two of the sustainable trails that ascend Colorado's vast array of mountains that exceed 14 ...

SUMMIT COUNTY ” U.S. Forest Service officials and 14er advocates are decrying several recent inscriptions left on Colorado’s highest peak written in felt-tip pen. “Graffiti is something new,” said ...