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Pandemic surge hits Colorado s big peaks

CFI-Lloyd Athearn/courtesy photo Hikers ascend and descend Torreys Peak as storm clouds build on a weekday in August 2019. The view is from Grays Peak. CFI-Lloyd Athearn/courtesy photo Hikers head up Quandary Peak on a weekday in August earlier this decade. Quandary has established itself as Colorado’s busiest 14er. CFI-Lloyd Athearn/courtesy photo Colorado’s tallest peaks proved more popular than ever when people flocked to the great outdoors during the pandemic summer of 2020. An estimated 415,000 people hiked the 14ers last year a whopping 44 percent increase over 2019, according to a report released Thursday by the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative.

A call from the mountains: Family of missing hiker launches search and rescue campaign

Photo by Kelsey Brunner / The Aspen Times ASPEN As Sunday, May 16, marked the beginning of Search and Rescue Week established by the United States Senate over a decade ago, the family of a man who’s been missing for nearly five years after presumably falling from the Maroon Bells is launching an awareness and fundraising campaign that highlights the work of rescue organizations and their importance in locating those injured, lost and deceased in the backcountry. Maureen Cook, whose husband and father of their three children went missing in September of 2016, has launched the “Dave Gives Back” search and rescue campaign.

The most scenic spots to ski or snowboard in Colorado

Jan 15, 2021, 10:06 am 1.3K Shares Beautiful mountain ranges can be seen the top of Aspen Highlands Ski areas on March 17, 2017, in Aspen. The views from the top of Highlands Ski area are spectacular. The peaks include from far left to right: Thunder Peak, 13,932 ft., Pyramid Peak, 14,018 ft., Maroon Peak 14,156 ft., and North Maroon Peak, 14,104, dead center in photo. To the right are Sleeping Sexton and Buckskin Pass at 12,462 ft. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) In the eternal race for powder turns, fast groomer laps or just family fun on the slopes, skiers and snowboarders often forget to look up and see the forest, not just the trees they’re trying not to ride into. Those views, of course, take in Colorado’s national forests, home to nearly every ski area in the state. Their soaring peaks, verdant valleys and amazing vistas make Colorado one of the prettiest states. And whether it’s up on the lift, at the top of the mountain, or even in town or in the vill

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