September 8, 2012
Colorado Mountain Club celebrates birthday by climbing 14ers Nearly 500 members of the Colorado Mountain Club are climbing all of the state’s fourteeners in celebration of the group’s 100th birthday. Teams consisting of an average of eight people each started their trails at 2 a.m. Saturday. As of Saturday afternoon, 48 peaks had been summited. “We still have 10 teams that we have not heard from,” said Ryan Ross, the organization’s event director. “We’re still on pins and needles here hoping that everybody gets down safely. The good news was that the weather was cooperative (Saturday) in almost the entire state.” Golden-based Colorado Mountain Club is a backcountry recreation conservation and education organization. It has about 7,000 members nationwide, with the vast majority in Colorado. The group leads thousands of trips each year.

Colorado Mountain Club celebrates birthday by climbing 14ers

Nearly 500 members of the Colorado Mountain Club are climbing all of the state’s fourteeners in celebration of the group’s 100th birthday.

Teams consisting of an average of eight people each started their trails at 2 a.m. Saturday. As of Saturday afternoon, 48 peaks had been summited.

“We still have 10 teams that we have not heard from,” said Ryan Ross, the organization’s event director. “We’re still on pins and needles here hoping that everybody gets down safely. The good news was that the weather was cooperative (Saturday) in almost the entire state.”

Golden-based Colorado Mountain Club is a backcountry recreation conservation and education organization. It has about 7,000 members nationwide, with the vast majority in Colorado. The group leads thousands of trips each year.

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August 17, 2012

Man who left dog on Colorado mountain faces animal cruelty charge

A man who left his dog at the summit of Mount Bierstadt in Colorado will face animal cruelty charges.

The charge was filed after the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office completed an investigation into the “abandoned and injured” dog found on the Colorado fourteener earlier this month. 

A group of volunteers rescued the dog, a German shepherd, who was spotted wandering at an elevation of about 13,000 feet. She was carried off the mountain on Monday.


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