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Author: Derek Wolfe
Publisher:
Published: 2021-06-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781734911220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive guide for all the peaks over 13,000' in Colorado's Elk Range Mountains. With varying ascents from hikes, scrambles, snow climbs, and technical routes, there are plenty of options for anyone who wishes to seek alpine adventure.
Author: Bob D'Antonio
Publisher: Falcon Guides
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780762770854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles of 55 great hikes along the Rocky Mountain front, from Fort Collins south to Colorado Springs. Experts and novice hikers alike will find overnights and day hikes with spectacular scenery, abundant wildlife, wildflowers, and fascinating landscapes
Author: Pete KJ
Publisher: IMBRIFEX BOOKS
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1945501146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDenver is known the world over as the gateway to Colorado’s magnificent Rocky Mountains. Four national forests, a national grassland, scores of regional and city parks and preserves, and Rocky Mountain National Park offer hundreds of hiking and walking trails—all within one to three hours of downtown Denver. Base Camp Denver offers you 101 of the best of these great hiking destinations to choose from. Take a day to explore an alpine meadow, walk to a waterfall, hike through a forest, or stroll suburban parklands. Enjoy a spectacular day of spring wildflowers or fall foliage, and still be home by dinnertime. Scramble to the top of a mountain to enjoy a sunrise and still make it to work by eight. With Pete KJ as your guide and Denver as your base camp, the splendor of Colorado’s Front Range is yours to enjoy one day—or even just a few hours—at a time. History, geology, flora, and fauna for each hike Best hikes for each season, and where to enjoy spring wildflowers & fall foliage Ratings from 1 to 5 for trail conditions, difficulty, suitability for children, and more Detailed driving directions to trailheads and info about elevation, hiking time, parking, and restrooms Regional maps showing all trails in each chapter; route map for each hike Best hikes for dogs, kids, and teens Hikes that offer solitude ... or plenty of company! Hikes by interest: birdwatching, stargazing, wetlands, wildlife, and more How to prepare & what to take 101 great hikes to choose from! Best hikes for each season, and where to enjoy spring wildflowers & fall foliage Ratings from 1 to 5 for trail conditions, difficulty, suitability for children, and more Detailed driving directions to trailheads and info about elevation, hiking time, parking, and restrooms Regional maps showing all trails in each chapter; route map for each hike Best hikes for dogs, kids, and teens Hikes that offer solitude ... or plenty of company! Hikes by interest: birdwatching, stargazing, wetlands, wildlife, and more How to prepare & what to take 101 great hikes to choose from! -- Pete KJ
Author: Steven Bragg
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780972441353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive reference guide to the Colorado Front Range for any level of trail runner. *Contains many of the best outings in the state from the Colorado Mountain Club, the outdoor experts in the Rockies for nearly a century*Full-color guidebook, plus fully GPS enabled*The latest in a new series from the Colorado Mountain Club: CMC's Classics
Author: Ellen E. Wohl
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780300084849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book fills an important gap with a clear and comprehensive explanation of how rivers are changed by human activity. The book also includes a generous selection of striking historical and contemporary photographs, maps, and diagrams that provide a fresh perspective on the extent to which the rivers of the Colorado Front Range have undergone change during the last two centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John Fielder
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1565794966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteen years in the making, Mountain Ranges of Colorado will prove to be John Fielder's definitive photographic essay about Colorado mountains. For the first time in any publication, this book delineates and celebrates the 28 distinct mountain ranges that define Colorado's Southern Rockies.
Author: Ben Fogelberg
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781565795198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat could be better than a walk through Colorado's mountains, woods, or valleys? How about a history hike? Hikers and historians Ben Fogelberg and Steve Grinstead take you there, and then take you beyond-sharing vignettes of days past to enhance these 50 walks to historic places in and around Rocky Mountain National Park, Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, La Junta, and Trinidad. View gold and silver mines in their lofty mountain perches, visit old homesteads, walk to the site of a coal-mining tragedy, explore the burn zone of the Hayman Fire, descend a canyon to discover rock art and dinosaur tracks, even climb to remnants of a crashed B-17 bomber! From mile-long strolls to crossing the flanks of fourteeners, Walking Into Colorado's Past has fun and fascinating history hikes for all ages.
Author: Zoltan Malocsay
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780962925054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lon Abbott
Publisher: Geology Underfoot
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878425952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book¿s 21 chapters, or vignettes, lead you to easily accessible stops along the Front Range¿s highways and byways, where you¿ll meet the apatosaur and other dinosaurs who roamed the floodplains and beaches that once covered the Front Range; look for diamonds in rare, out-of-the-way volcanic pipes; learn how America¿s mountain, Pikes Peak, developed from molten magma miles below the surface only to become an important visual landmark for early Great Plains¿ travelers; and walk the Gangplank, a singularly important plateau for both nineteenth-century westward expansion and our understanding of the Front Range¿s most recent exhumation.
Author: Fritz Sperry
Publisher:
Published: 1914-11-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780988401228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guidebook to backcountry skiing and snowboarding routes in Colorado's Front Range. Featuring 70+ routes on 36 peaks, along with Loveland Pass, also Arapahoe Basin and Loveland Ski Area backcountry.
