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Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad F) - ~7~ - File I a Study NPS :J:Ntl,-Fl II T
I I Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad f) - ~7~ - file I a study NPS :J:ntl,-fl II t. Pr~ pt>"#£' - UNITED STATES DEPARTME NT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1 ON MICROFILM 1\WE IIElUIIH o: ~ liii'ORIIMTIOH OOC1Bl I I I I I. DURANGO - SILVERTON NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD 1\ A Study I I I I I March 1962 I I I. I' I I Department of the Interior National Park Service Region Two Office I Omaha, Nebraska I I I ' I .I I I. I INTRODUCTION I This study is the story of a railroad line and an account of a I chain of recent events which have complicated that study. It describes I. in text and picture the Durango to Silverton narrow gauge line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, i t s operating equipment and I facilities, its scenic and historic surroundings . The significance of this narrow gauge railroad in our Nation's history is pointed out and a case is made for its preservation. The objectives of such preservation • 1: are outlined and some possible solutions are briefed. I I I I I I • I I I \, . ._.. ·---- ~~----------------------~ I y M • w 0 I ...... -- ---- ----.,--- ----- ----------~---- I I I T L 0 R A D 0 A H ~ c 0 OOLORAOO NATIONAL MONUMI:NT Colorado I Sprin9s CAPITOL Rill: I" NATI ON"L I MONUMENT ORI!AT ~ SANO O UNI:8 I NATION& I.,. I Si I OMO NUMI!:NT 81tYc;E C ANYON NATIONAL rf PAIUC 0 0 0 I NAVAJO NAT IONAl. -
BACKCOUNTRY CACHE a Newsletter for Members of CMC Backpacking Section
BACKCOUNTRY CACHE A Newsletter for Members of CMC Backpacking Section May 2021 CHAIR'S CORNER - Uwe Sartori Members often ask what do trip leaders do in getting a trip built and across the finish line? Tied into the answer is the awesome value CMC members receive each time they sign up and do a CMC trip. (Think about it. If you go to a guide service, you are likely paying hundreds of dollars a day.) The chart below shows my investment for an upcoming backpacking trip. This personal investment is repeated by many of our trip leaders regardless of the recreational activity. For this 2 day backpacking trip, there are 24 hours of prep/debrief/admin work and 20 hours of trip activity time; 44 hours total. You can begin to understand why the BPX Section is super keen on having our members keep their commitment and help us AVOID ROSTER CHURN. Having trips cancel due to CMC members dropping out is the bane of trip leaders. Show respect and community by keeping your commitment when signing up for a CMC adventure. I guarantee you will not regret it. BPX TRIPS FOR NEXT 2 MONTHS E=Easy M=Moderate D=Difficult June - July Trips With Openings* Jun 1-3 Tue-Thu M Camping, Hiking, Fishing at Browns Canyon Nat'l Monument Jun 9-11 Wed-Fri E Mayflower and Mohawk Lakes, White River NF Jun 11-13 Fri-Sun M Just-in-Time Wigwam Park, Lost Creek Wilderness Jun 25-28 Fri-Mon D Colorado Trail - Collegiate West Exploratory Jun 29- Tue-Thu D Willow and Salmon Lakes, Eagles Nest Wilderness Jul 1 Jul 1-2 Thu-Fri D Macey Lakes and Colony Baldy, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness -
Sunlight Peak Class 4 Exposure: Summit Elev
Sunlight Peak Class 4 Exposure: Summit Elev.: 14,066 feet Trailhead Elev.: 11,100 feet Elevation Gain: 3,000' starting at Chicago Basin 6,000' starting at Needleton RT Length: 5.00 miles starting at Chicago Basin 19 miles starting at Needleton Climbers: Rick, Brett and Wayne Crandall; Rick Peckham August 8, 2012 I’ve been looking at climbing reports to Sunlight Peak for a few years – a definite notch up for me, so the right things aligned and my son Brett (Class 5 climber), brother Wayne (strong, younger but this would be his first fourteener success) and friend Rick Peckham from Alaska converged with me in Durango to embark on a classic Colorado adventure with many elements. We overnighted in Durango, stocking up on “essential ingredients” for a two-night camp in an area called the Chicago Basin, which as you will see, takes some doing to get to. Durango, founded in 1880 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway company, is now southwest Colorado’s largest town, with 15,000 people. Left to right: Brett, Rick, Wayne provisioning essentials. Chicago Basin is at the foot of three fourteeners in the San Juan range that can only be reached by taking Colorado’s historic and still running (after 130 years) narrow-gauge train from Durango to Silverton and paying a fee to get off with back-pack in the middle of the ride. Once left behind, the next leg of the excursion is a 7 mile back-pack while climbing 3000’ vertical feet to the Basin where camp is set. -
Mesa Cortina / South Willow Falls
U. S. Department of Agriculture Dillon Ranger District 680 Blue River Parkway Silverthorne, CO 80498 (970) 468-5400 MESA CORTINA / SOUTH WILLOW FALLS - FDT 32 / 60 Difficulty: EASY TO MODERATE Trail Use: Moderate Length: 2.7 miles one-way to the Gore Range Trail (FDT 60) 4.2 miles one-way to the South Willow Falls Elevation: Start at 9,217 feet and ends at 10,007 feet (highest point 10,007 feet) Elevation Gain: +1,043 feet - 253 feet = +790 feet Open To: HIKING, HORSE, X-C SKIING, SNOWSHOEING Access: From I-70 take Exit 205, Silverthorne / Dillon, and travel north on HWY 9 to the first traffic light at the intersection of Rainbow Drive / Wildernest Road. Turn left onto Wildernest Road / Ryan Gulch Rd. Continue through two stoplights onto Buffalo Mountain Drive. After 0.8 miles, turn right onto Lakeview Drive. Travel 0.45 miles and turn left onto Aspen Drive. The Mesa Cortina trailhead and parking area will be on your right in 0.15 miles. Trail Highlights: This trail enters the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area. There are great views of Dillon Reservoir and the entire Blue River Valley from the trailhead. The trail winds through aspen groves into a meadow which offers a good view of the Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness. After the meadow is the Eagles Nest Wilderness boundary. The trail then travels through lodgepole pine forests and crosses South Willow Creek just before intersecting the Gore Range Trail (FDT 60). Continue left (west) on the Gore Range Trail toward South Willow Falls. Eventually you will come to a junction which is the dead-end spur trail to the falls. -
Colorado Fourteeners Checklist
Colorado Fourteeners Checklist Rank Mountain Peak Mountain Range Elevation Date Climbed 1 Mount Elbert Sawatch Range 14,440 ft 2 Mount Massive Sawatch Range 14,428 ft 3 Mount Harvard Sawatch Range 14,421 ft 4 Blanca Peak Sangre de Cristo Range 14,351 ft 5 La Plata Peak Sawatch Range 14,343 ft 6 Uncompahgre Peak San Juan Mountains 14,321 ft 7 Crestone Peak Sangre de Cristo Range 14,300 ft 8 Mount Lincoln Mosquito Range 14,293 ft 9 Castle Peak Elk Mountains 14,279 ft 10 Grays Peak Front Range 14,278 ft 11 Mount Antero Sawatch Range 14,276 ft 12 Torreys Peak Front Range 14,275 ft 13 Quandary Peak Mosquito Range 14,271 ft 14 Mount Evans Front Range 14,271 ft 15 Longs Peak Front Range 14,259 ft 16 Mount Wilson San Miguel Mountains 14,252 ft 17 Mount Shavano Sawatch Range 14,231 ft 18 Mount Princeton Sawatch Range 14,204 ft 19 Mount Belford Sawatch Range 14,203 ft 20 Crestone Needle Sangre de Cristo Range 14,203 ft 21 Mount Yale Sawatch Range 14,200 ft 22 Mount Bross Mosquito Range 14,178 ft 23 Kit Carson Mountain Sangre de Cristo Range 14,171 ft 24 Maroon Peak Elk Mountains 14,163 ft 25 Tabeguache Peak Sawatch Range 14,162 ft 26 Mount Oxford Collegiate Peaks 14,160 ft 27 Mount Sneffels Sneffels Range 14,158 ft 28 Mount Democrat Mosquito Range 14,155 ft 29 Capitol Peak Elk Mountains 14,137 ft 30 Pikes Peak Front Range 14,115 ft 31 Snowmass Mountain Elk Mountains 14,099 ft 32 Windom Peak Needle Mountains 14,093 ft 33 Mount Eolus San Juan Mountains 14,090 ft 34 Challenger Point Sangre de Cristo Range 14,087 ft 35 Mount Columbia Sawatch Range -
COLORADO CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION VISIT COLORADO! Day & Overnight Hikes on the Continental Divide Trail
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL DAY & OVERNIGHT HIKES: COLORADO CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION VISIT COLORADO! Day & Overnight Hikes on the Continental Divide Trail THE CENTENNIAL STATE The Colorado Rockies are the quintessential CDT experience! The CDT traverses 800 miles of these majestic and challenging peaks dotted with abandoned homesteads and ghost towns, and crosses the ancestral lands of the Ute, Eastern Shoshone, and Cheyenne peoples. The CDT winds through some of Colorado’s most incredible landscapes: the spectacular alpine tundra of the South San Juan, Weminuche, and La Garita Wildernesses where the CDT remains at or above 11,000 feet for nearly 70 miles; remnants of the late 1800’s ghost town of Hancock that served the Alpine Tunnel; the awe-inspiring Collegiate Peaks near Leadville, the highest incorporated city in America; geologic oddities like The Window, Knife Edge, and Devil’s Thumb; the towering 14,270 foot Grays Peak – the highest point on the CDT; Rocky Mountain National Park with its rugged snow-capped skyline; the remote Never Summer Wilderness; and the broad valleys and numerous glacial lakes and cirques of the Mount Zirkel Wilderness. You might also encounter moose, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, marmots, and pika on the CDT in Colorado. In this guide, you’ll find Colorado’s best day and overnight hikes on the CDT, organized south to north. ELEVATION: The average elevation of the CDT in Colorado is 10,978 ft, and all of the hikes listed in this guide begin at elevations above 8,000 ft. Remember to bring plenty of water, sun protection, and extra food, and know that a hike at elevation will likely be more challenging than the same distance hike at sea level. -
2011, Winter – Bikepacking the CT
News from the Colorado Trail Foundation WINTER 2011 Bikepacking (and Hike-A-Biking) the Colorado Trail By Judd Rohwer (Rohwer, of Sandia Park, New Mexico, is a member of that’s NUTS. Back of the Pack Racing, a team of riders that describes But then the wheels started turning. And I’m not itself as “a fundamental movement that supports the talking about the 29 inchers on my Black Sheep single- theory of ‘me against mainstream.’ Our team attempts speed. I started thinking about the adventure, the to do everything the ‘right way,’ but not your way. We glory ... and the risks. I started thinking about the are a group of engineers, pilots, dreamers and UFO mental preparation, the physical training, the gear ... chasers. One thing is certain. If the race is long enough, and the danger. we will catch you – maybe.” What follows is his The challenge of The Colorado Trail seemed so description of his bikepacking adventures last summer massive compared to the usual 24-hour mountain on The Colorado Trail.) bike races that we train and live for at Back of the Pack Racing. But I wanted to face the challenge head on, so I made a commitment to myself and started planning for a 2011 attempt at the CTR. Then reality hit: the reality of a 500-mile self- supported race hit me straight in the face. Racing myself to the edge of exhaustion and beyond didn’t sound like much fun. So, I quickly convinced myself that the best way to experience the CT was to approach the adventure as a self-supported tour, not a race. -
Public Law 94-352 94Th Congress an Act
90 STAT. 870 PUBLIC LAW 94-352—JULY 12, 1976 Public Law 94-352 94th Congress An Act July 12, 1976 To designate the Eagles Nest Wilderness, Arapaho and Wliite River National [S. 268] Forests, in the State of Colorado. Be it enacted ty the Senate and House of Representatives of the Eagles Nest United States of ATuerica in Congress assenibled^ That, in accordance Wilderness, Colo. with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 891; 16 U.S.C. Designation. 1132(b)), the area classified as the Gore Range-Eagles Nest Primitive 16 use 1132 Area, with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom, as note. generally depicted on a map entitled "Eagles Nest Wilderness—Pro posed", dated June 1976, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, is hereby designated as the "Eagles Nest Wilderness" within and as part of the Arapaho and White River National Forests comprising an area of approximately one hundred thirty-three thou sand nine hundred ten acres. Map and SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secre description, filing tary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the with Eagles Nest Wilderness with the Committees on Interior and Insular congressional Affairs of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and committees. such map and description shall have the same force and effect as if 16 use 1132 included in this Act: Provided^ hoicever, That correction of clerical note. and typographical errors in such map and description may be made. -
Profiles of Colorado Roadless Areas
PROFILES OF COLORADO ROADLESS AREAS Prepared by the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region July 23, 2008 INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 2 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ARAPAHO-ROOSEVELT NATIONAL FOREST ......................................................................................................10 Bard Creek (23,000 acres) .......................................................................................................................................10 Byers Peak (10,200 acres)........................................................................................................................................12 Cache la Poudre Adjacent Area (3,200 acres)..........................................................................................................13 Cherokee Park (7,600 acres) ....................................................................................................................................14 Comanche Peak Adjacent Areas A - H (45,200 acres).............................................................................................15 Copper Mountain (13,500 acres) .............................................................................................................................19 Crosier Mountain (7,200 acres) ...............................................................................................................................20 Gold Run (6,600 acres) ............................................................................................................................................21 -
ZOOLOGY Exploring the Biodiversity of Colorado and Theworld
CHAPTER 4 — ZOOLOGY Exploring the Biodiversity of Colorado and the World CHAPTER 4 ZOOLOGY Exploring the Biodiversity of Colorado and the World Jeffrey T. Stephenson, Before the Museum Paula E. Cushing, The first collections of specimens that make up what is now the Denver John R. Demboski, and Museum of Nature & Science were actually established well before the Frank-T. Krell founding of the institution in 1900, the selection of a board of trustees, or the construction of a building to house and exhibit the specimens. Edwin Carter (1830–1900) (Fig. 4.1) collected Colorado birds and mammals from the 1860s through the 1890s. Born in New York in 1830, Carter arrived in Colorado in 1859 hoping to make it rich in the goldfields, but he soon became interested in the region’s natural history. He learned hide tanning and, as his prospects for hitting the mother lode faded, he earned his living selling buckskin clothing that he handcrafted. Carter supplemented these earnings by mar- keting foodstuffs and other provisions to the growing population of successful and (mostly) unsuccessful prospectors flooding the region. His interest in nature turned to concern as he observed dwindling numbers of mammals and birds, owing largely to habitat destruction and overhunting. Period photographs of the area’s mining district show a landscape largely denuded of vegetation. By the 1870s, Carter noted that many animal species were becoming scarce. The state’s forests were being devastated, ranches and farms were replacing open prairie, and some species, including the last native bison in Colorado, were on the verge of extirpation or extinction. -
San Juan National Forest
SAN JUAN NATIONAL FOREST Colorado UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE V 5 FOREST SERVICE t~~/~ Rocky Mountain Region Denver, Colorado Cover Page. — Chimney Rock, San Juan National Forest F406922 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1942 * DEPOSITED BY T,HE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA San Juan National Forest CAN JUAN NATIONAL FOREST is located in the southwestern part of Colorado, south and west of the Continental Divide, and extends, from the headwaters of the Navajo River westward to the La Plata Moun- \ tains. It is named after the San Juan River, the principal river drainage y in this section of the State, which, with its tributaries in Colorado, drains the entire area within the forest. It contains a gross area of 1,444,953 ^ acres, of which 1,255,977 are Government land under Forest Service administration, and 188,976 are State and privately owned. The forest was created by proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt on June 3, 1905. RICH IN HISTORY The San Juan country records the march of time from prehistoric man through the days of early explorers and the exploits of modern pioneers, each group of which has left its mark upon the land. The earliest signs of habitation by man were left by the cliff and mound dwellers. Currently with or following this period the inhabitants were the ancestors of the present tribes of Indians, the Navajos and the Utes. After the middle of the eighteenth century the early Spanish explorers and traders made their advent into this section of the new world in increasing numbers. -
American Rockies: Photographs by Gus Foster EXHIBITION LIST All
American Rockies: Photographs by Gus Foster EXHIBITION LIST All photographs courtesy of artist except Windom Peak. Photographs are Ektacolor prints. Dimensions are frame size only. 1. Wheeler Peak, 1987 Sangre de Cristo Range Wheeler Peak Wilderness, New Mexico 360 degree panoramic photograph 30" x 144" 2. Continental Divide, 1998 Black Range Aldo Leopold Wilderness, New Mexico 372 degree panoramic photograph 24" x 96" 3. Truchas Lakes, 1986 Sangre de Cristo Range Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico 378 degree panoramic photograph 24" x 96" 4. Pecos Big Horns, 1989 Sangre de Cristo Range Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico 376 degree panoramic photograph 24" x 96" 5. Aspens, 1993 Sangre de Cristo Range Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico 375 degree panoramic photograph 30" x 144" 6. Sandia Mountains, 1997 Sangre de Cristo Range Sandia Mountain Wilderness, New Mexico 365 degree panoramic photograph 16" x 70" 7. Chimayosos Peak, 1988 Sangre de Cristo Range Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico 376 degree panoramic photograph 16" x 70" 8. Venado Peak, 1990 Sangre de Cristo Range Latir Wilderness, New Mexico 380 degree panoramic photograph 16" x 70" 9. Winter Solstice, 1995 Sangre de Cristo Range Carson National Forest, New Mexico 368 degree panoramic photograph 16" x 70" 10. Beaver Creek Drainage, 1988 Carson National Forest Cruces Basin Wilderness, New Mexico 384 degree panoramic photograph 30" x 144" 11. Mt. Antero, 1990 Sawatch Range San Isabel National Forest, Colorado 368 degree panoramic photograph 24" x 96" 12. Mt. Yale, 1988 Sawatch Range Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, Colorado 370 degree panoramic photograph 24" x 96" 13. Windom Peak, 1989 Needle Mountains, San Juan Range Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado 378 degree panoramic photograph 30" x 144" Collection of The Albuquerque Museum 14.