Summit County has a plethora of volunteer opportunities this spring and summer to pitch in and take care of some of its most-used trails and open space areas. The Friends of the Dillon Ranger District.
Trail users were welcomed this week to help “wear in the tread by hiking and riding” the Fooses Creek Realignment on Segment 15 of the Colorado Trail when the Colorado
This month, nonprofit The Conservation Fund announced it had acquired 300 acres of land on Colorado’s popular Mt. Democrat, permanently opening it to hikers after a series of closures. But the future of its neighboring mountains is anything but certain.
Claire Bannwarth is a trail running machine. Then she ran the Transgrancanaria 128K in the Canary Islands in February (seventh female), followed by the Cursa di Ciclopi 500K in Sicily in April (second female), and the UTMB Ultra-Trail Snowdonia 165K in Wales in May (third female). Bannwarth, who lives in Village-Neuf, France, went on to run Colorado's Hardrock 100 in July (fifth place female), and then win the Tahoe 200 a week later in Lake Tahoe, California.