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The Colorado Mountain Club ( CMC ), formed in 1912, [2] is a nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) outdoor education organization based in Golden, Colorado that gathers and disseminates information regarding Colorado 's mountains in the areas of art, science, literature and recreation. The club advocates for the preservation of the alpine regions, and was ...
The Agnes Vaille Shelter is a beehive-shaped stone shelter along E. Longs Peak Trail near the summit of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. The first shelter was built in 1927 by the National Park Service after a number of climbers died ascending Longs Peak. The shelter was named for Agnes Vaille, who died while ...
Johnson was known as a dedicated mountaineer. She was a member of the American Alpine Club and the Colorado Mountain Club. [2] By the age of 30, Johnson became one of the first 20 women to climb to the summits of Colorado's "fourteeners" – over 50 mountains in Colorado that exceed 14,000 feet.
Gudy Gaskill. Gudrun "Gudy" Gaskill (1927 – July 14, 2016) [ 1][ 2] was an American mountaineer who is regarded as the driving force behind the creation of the Colorado Trail, a 567-mile (912 km) hiking, biking, and horseback riding path between Denver and Durango, Colorado. Beginning in the 1970s, she helped plan out the route, solicited ...
Mount Wilson is the highest peak of the San Miguel Mountains. Mount Sneffels is the highest peak of the Sneffels Range. Pikes Peak is the highest peak of the Southern Front Range. The mountain was the inspiration for "America the Beautiful". Mount of the Holy Cross is the highest peak of the Northern Sawatch Range.
Cheyenne Mountain is a triple-peaked mountain in El Paso County, Colorado, southwest of downtown Colorado Springs. The mountain serves as a host for military, communications, recreational, and residential functions. The underground operations center for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was built during the Cold War to ...
The Never Summer Mountains (from Arapaho: Ni-chebe-chii) are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in north central Colorado in the United States consisting of over twenty named peaks. The range is located along the northwest border of Rocky Mountain National Park, forming an S-turn in the continental divide between the headwaters of the ...
The American Alpine Club ( AAC) is a non-profit member organization with more than 26,000 members. The club is housed in the American Mountaineering Center (AMC) in Golden, Colorado . Through its members, the AAC advocates for American climbers domestically and around the world; provides grants and volunteer opportunities to protect and ...