As I crested the ridge, I could see Mount Elbert’s summit in the distance and a mass of people milling about. Not surprising, I thought to myself. It was a sunny Saturday in June, a busy time on the ...

In our exclusive series Adventures with Alan, we'll travel across Colorado week-by-week to show you thrills and chills, hidden gems and well-known spots. Colorado is known for its sweeping mountain ...

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Colorado Fourteeners Initiative in recent years has rerouted a section of Black Cloud Trail on Mount Elbert — part of an alternate route the nonprofit’s executive director, Lloyd Athearn, recommends ...

The CT Series is a special series of hiking articles about the Colorado Trail that runs from May through October. The CT is a unique and well-maintained continuous trail, spanning 485 miles from ...

Last September a friend and I traveled to Colorado with the objective of climbing the highest "fourteener," actually the highest spot in Colorado -- Mount Elbert. Mount Elbert is one of 55 mountain ...

Bev Davis just summited Mt. Elbert with thirty of her new best friends. This alone is a neat accomplishment, but it's made even better by the fact that Davis uses a wheelchair in her daily life to get ...

This past summer, hikers on Colorado’s highest peak, 14,438-foot Mount Elbert, were met by a peculiar welcome committee. Volunteers from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative handed out WAG bags near a ...