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Gear 'library' builds new generation of outdoor adventurers JASON BLEVINS, The Colorado Sun April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Vanessa Saldivar was 5 when her father hiked her up the bunny slope at Mt. Hood Skibowl in Oregon. She didn’t have a fancy jacket. She used socks as mittens. Her dad gave her a nudge. And she was hooked. “All these barriers just broke down in that moment,” said the new executive director of Get Outdoors Leadville!, which recently opened a new gear library that lends outdoor equipment to Lake County residents. “The gear library is ad...

Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post  and is republished here by permission. David Kelly has lived his whole life in Colorado’s Upper Arkansas River Valley, where his family has ranched since 1952. The community is committed to helping him and other ranchers there because of the benefits their lands produce for everyone. Kelly’s ranch, about three miles south of Buena Vista, is one of nine enrolled in a 1-year-old program that pays people to not develop their land or sell their water rights. Chaffee County voters approved a sales tax increase of 0.25% in 2018 to address forest health, the impac...

February is only halfway over, but it’s already been one of the deadliest months for avalanches in the history of Colorado. Six people have died in avalanches already this month, including two more during the weekend, bringing the number of fatalities to 10 this season. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center issued a statewide special avalanche advisory during the weekend. Since Friday, there were 87 avalanches reported around the state, according to the center’s website, including several in the Sawatch Range. An avalanche was observed Sunday on Monarch Pass that was roughly 200...

February is only halfway over, but it’s already been one of the deadliest months for avalanches in the history of Colorado. Six people have died in avalanches already this month,

We have mountains, LOTS of mountains. One of the things I'm looking forward to doing this Spring and throughout Summer is attempting my first 14'er. Hopefully that will lead to me to conquer I've only imagined what it would like to stand atop one of those looking across the Rocky Mountain range and taking it all in. Fortunately, I have found some recent inspiration on Instagram looking up the 10 tallest peaks. It's incredible to see the joy on the face of likely exhausted hikers summitting the top of Colorado mountains. 14ers.com recognizes 53 total 14ers in the state of Colorado. Here's wh...