The LIDAR Data mapping Colorado’s Park, Custer, and Fremont Counties was published in 2020, and it raised questions for Eric Gilbertson. The mountaineer and mechanical engineer likes to conduct ground ...

A surveyor says he has discovered a new Colorado 14er after hauling GPS equipment to the top two peaks in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. No, Eric Gilbertson did not suddenly locate a new 14,000-foot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using lightweight tools, Eric Gilbertson hikes the world's tallest mountains to measure their heights. Elijah Gendron In the ...

The federal government is considering renaming Kit Carson Mountain, a ridge with multiple fourteeners in southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. During a recent update for the Colorado ...

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...

Federal board wonders if a suggestion for “Mount Crestone” may be confused with nearby Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle as the state naming group weighs a new name for the 14er The Colorado ...

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...

In the middle of a chilly October night in 2025, my two friends and I suited up at the Cottonwood Creek trailhead and started a trek into the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado. It was a little ...

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the middle of a chilly October night in 2025, my two friends and I suited up at the Cottonwood Creek trailhead and started a trek into the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado.