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HAPPY TRAILS: Cookstove Mountain
Cookstove Mountain is one of the most imposing and inspiring mountains in the Pikes Peak region. Grey granite cliffs and crags speckled with...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 11/05/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
HAPPY TRAILS: Raspberry Mountain from the Crags
This blocky granite summit, tucked between Woodland Park and Pikes Peak, is known both as Sleeping Giant and Raspberry Mountain. We use the fruity...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 10/29/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
FRAMES OF REFERENCE
Railroad magnate Charles Perkins willed the Garden of the Gods to the people of Colorado Springs on his deathbed 100 years ago. His only...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 10/11/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
LEGALIZING TRAIL ONESLOW STEP AT A TIME
There is a plan to make a plan. That's how far efforts have progressed in the 13 months since The Gazette reported that a deal to open the...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 09/24/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
MODERN FORESTRY'S SEEDS SOWN IN 1909
A few crumbling concrete slabs near the top of the Manitou Incline are all that's left of the foundation of modern understanding of how forests...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 09/03/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
TRAIL MARKER
On a recent summer afternoon, as mapmaker Robert Houdek leaned over his drafting table to put the finishing touches on the ninth edition of the...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 09/03/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
Sun shines on activities
When people think Colorado, they often think cold and snow, but the weather on mountains around Colorado Springs is remarkably sunny and mild, with...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/29/09 by Dave Philipps · More from publication -
CASUALTIES OF WAR 2 Warning signs
After coming home from Iraq, 21-year-old medic Bruce Bastien was driving with his Army buddy Louis Bressler, 24, when they spotted a woman walking...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 07/27/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
CASUALTIES OF WAR
Before the murders started, Anthony Marquez's mom dialed his sergeant at Fort Carson to warn that her son was poised to kill. It was February...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 07/26/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication -
OUT THERE THREATDOWN: BEWARE OF MICE AND MEN
Let's face it, spending a night out in the woods is kind of ? scary. It's dark out there. It's lonely. Big creatures with sharp teeth and no...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 07/16/09 by DAVE PHILIPPS · More from publication
