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Q & A with Eric Gilbertson, the man who showed Colorado, it had a hidden 14er
By Jordan Hedberg
We often forget that what we know might not actually be accurate. Human nature rests on a mountain of assumptions, and in ignorance, we often...
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Supreme Court and District Judge end Linda Stanley’s final attempt to avoid punishment
By Jordan Hedberg
The five-year saga of the rise and fall of Linda Stanley entered its closing chapter over the last week as the Colorado Supreme Court ruled...
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Burros, volunteers, and a mission to bring water to LT100 runners on Hope Pass
By Jordan Hedberg
We recently spent four days camped out at timberline up Hope Pass —about 11,800 feet in altitude — helping support the highest aid station for...
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A steam whistle blasts in the Wet Mountain Valley for the first time in 86 years
By Jordan Hedberg
In 1939, as the United States continued to struggle to fully recover from the decade-long Great Depression, places like Westcliffe were still far from experiencing...
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Rockfall at dawn: Two good Samaritans rescue a man struck in the head during rockfall on Little Bear Peak
By Jordan Hedberg
The dark blue, almost black, of the morning twilight was only punctuated by the headlamps of three hikers as they reached the polished granite chute...
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On Mountain Time 152-155

On Mountain Time 152-155

By Staff on February 1, 2002

Comic Strip written by Clint Driscoll and illustrated by Judie Moorhead

Mountain Life – February 2002 – Colorado Central

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It’s time for a showdown on the Western Range

By Staff on February 1, 2002

Western Water Report: 4 February 2002

By Staff on February 1, 2002

Colorado’s longest aerial tramway was at Leavick

By Staff on January 1, 2002

An old aerial tramway near Leadville

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Book was misrepresented in Colorado Central review

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Perhaps the airliner should be “Adventure Travel,” too

By Staff on January 1, 2002

A Letter to Sibley from this Place

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Marching and Dancing

By Staff on January 1, 2002

A guide to Salida Trees, by the Salida Tree Board

By Staff on January 1, 2002

From Gold to Ghosts: A History of St. Elmo, by Peter Anderson

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Salida: The early years, by Eleanor Fry

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Transforming the Salida Steam Plant

Transforming the Salida Steam Plant

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Restoring Leadville’s Jewish heritage

Restoring Leadville’s Jewish heritage

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Perhaps what happened in the 90s wasn’t a boom

By Staff on January 1, 2002

The Commodification of Nature

By Staff on January 1, 2002

The real reason for public-land user fees?

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Public Land User Fees aren’t going to go away

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Slick magazines have a subscriber problem with cornstarch

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Schools for schools of hatchery fish

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Americans looking for hide-outs

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Heard around the West

By Staff on January 1, 2002

State Land Board and the Smiths continue to play “Let’s make a deal”

By Staff on January 1, 2002

State official in Wetmore target of porn investigation

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Preservationists will gather Jan. 31 – Feb. 2 in Denver

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Constitution defeats Salida again

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Briefs from the San Luis Valley

By Staff on January 1, 2002

14,134-foot South Elbert will remain officially nameless

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Leadville murderer gets life without parole

By Staff on January 1, 2002

On Mountain Time 148-151

On Mountain Time 148-151

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Just another whiner in the wilderness

By Staff on January 1, 2002

An assignment for a real professor

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Dim November days are a good time to tour the mountains

By Staff on January 1, 2002

If you have a sense of place, you don’t need to look for one

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Those pesky numbers: 2

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Those Pesky Numbers: 1

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Western Water Report: 7 January 2002

By Staff on January 1, 2002

Road Outrage on the New Frontier

By Staff on December 1, 2001

Anza’s 1779 Comanche Campaign

By Staff on December 1, 2001

Cutthroat and Campfire Tales, by John H. Monnett

By Staff on December 1, 2001

The Colorado Almanac, by Thomas J. Noel

By Staff on December 1, 2001

Scrating in the dirt for a kernel of truth

By Staff on December 1, 2001

An escape from the madness off the beaten path

By Staff on December 1, 2001

One way to finance a war

By Staff on December 1, 2001

A note to writers and readers

By Staff on December 1, 2001