When Rick Trujillo first ran over the Sneffels range from Ouray to Telluride in August of 1974, he never expected to chart what would become one of Colorado’s most famous mountain races. In fact, the event was accidentally created only after he was left stranded on the wrong side of Imogene Pass that fateful day.
Roughly a century after Italian armies drilled iron rungs into cliff faces to efficiently move troops through treacherous mountain terrain — via ferratas, or “the iron way,” — the ferratas
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing use restrictions on the area around Blue Lakes, in response to impacts from increased visitation and impacts from more people using public lands.