Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount ...

LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount Elbert, provides a textbook Rocky Mountain ...

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — While meteorological summer is a week away, trails above 10,000 feet remain snowpacked. Lake County Search and Rescue had a busy Monday when crews responded to two separate calls on ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Lake County Search and Rescue crews over the weekend responded to three different calls for help on popular Colorado 14ers. Two of the calls were on Mount Massive and one, which ...

PUEBLO (AP) — When Scott Garcia sets out to hike up some of Colorado’s highest peaks, the trail to the top starts with extreme focus, a keen way with memorizing maps and numbers and a passion to get ...

Mike Epke, left, and Aaron Payne make the final push to the summit of Handies Peak in the San Juan Mountains. The hikers have both completed more than 40 of Colorado’s 58 fourteeners. Colorado’s ...

SUMMIT COUNTY ” U.S. Forest Service officials and 14er advocates are decrying several recent inscriptions left on Colorado’s highest peak written in felt-tip pen. “Graffiti is something new,” said ...