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Quandary Peak, one of the state’s 58 peaks over 14,000 feet, towers over the upper Blue River Valley earlier this year. Mountaineer Andrew Hamilton, with the aid of Andrea Sansone, is currently undertaking an attempt at hiking the 100 highest peaks in Colorado in record time. Photo by Bill Linfield at hiking the 100 highest peaks in Colorado in record time. The duo and a support group began the quest for Hamilton to hike the 100 highest peaks in 20 days on Sunday, June 27. As of Saturday mor...

Envision Forest Health Council partners will treat the overgrown forest above the Arkansas River north of Buena Vista to improve wildlife habitat and reduce risk of wildfire and its potential effects on area residents and infrastructure. Railroad Bridge is the third forest treatment project to be prioritized and funded under the Council, which formed last year to implement the Chafee County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The project is in the wildfire plan’s top priority areas that id...

. The skies were gloomy, but my mood couldn’t have been sunnier. I was tromping up the Horn Fork Trail in Colorado’s Collegiate Peaks Wilderness in a light drizzle with two friends. It was the last weekend in August, and the willows that lined the path were just beginning to take on the yellow of autumn. Low clouds obscured the summit of 14,421-foot Mount Harvard. The weather report had forecast rain all morning, but it was supposed to clear up before the weekend was over.  Abby, Erica, ...