By Seth Boster, The Gazette EVERGREEN — Anyone who’s lived here long enough has sweet memories of the lake. Sweet, like the drink John Ellis remembers. It was concocted in the old warming hut, that log cabin still standing along the shores that freeze for an ice skating tradition dating back to 1928, when the […]
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In the small town of Salida, a very unlikely circus thrives
By Seth Boster, The Gazette SALIDA — Beside a chicken coop in the backyard of a home on the countryside, a dozen kids are flipping, twirling, cartwheeling, juggling, walking on balls and contorting their bodies on silks and rings suspended in the air. Their ages range between 9 and 13. Their tutor is Joe Lobeck, […]
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Coloradans’ increased use of public lands during coronavirus is taking its toll
Seth Boster, The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS — Scott Fitzwilliams was supposed to be off work. But as supervisor of America’s most trafficked national forest,“ you’re never off work,” he says. So there he was Fourth of July weekend, supposed to be enjoying the serenity he had always known at a lake within White River National […]
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Colorado has an active volcano, and it’s a big reminder of Mother Nature’s explosive might
By Seth Boster, The Gazette DOTSERO — At the base of Colorado’s lone active volcano is a small mobile home park, where on this day a resident offers a fair warning to a pair of curious visitors. “Is it four-wheel drive?” he asks. He bends down to scoop dark soil that crumbles in his hands. […]
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“A feeling of empowerment and freedom”: It’s become common for women to accompany a hiking tale with a shirtless photo
By Amanda Hancock, The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS — Lauren Robison had been waiting for the right moment. In awe of the views near the end of a hike through Black Canyon in Gunnison, she thought, “Yup, this is the one.” It helped, too, that no one else was around. Robison planted her feet among some […]
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Work on new Pikes Peak Summit Complex progresses at 14,115 feet
By Amanda Hancock, The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS — Upon arriving at the top of Pikes Peak, visitors might not expect to see a bustling construction site in the middle of the breathtaking views they came for. Sometimes they pass by workers clad in hard hats and neon vests, like the site’s project manager Rob Clough, […]