Melissa Strong, founder of Bird & Jim and a formerly sponsored rock climber, found strength in her community after a near-fatal electrocution accident.

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"There's a voluminous amount of Grateful Dead cover bands in this area, and I have fun sitting in with some of them when I can."

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"This last year has been a big distraction from that core mission."

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Police officials in Glenwood Springs, Parachute, Rifle and Silt all took part in the digital bashing.

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The annual Conservation in the West poll surveyed voters in eight states.

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A CU physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving

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"Who wants to come up to a majestic little mountain town with a toxic pile of burnt rubble in the middle of it?"

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Mountain town commuters have probably experienced a glare closure or heard from someone who has.

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Amid housing crisis, vacancy rates in some mountain counties exceed 50 percent.

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The film follows ski mountaineers as they take on the first-ever ski descent of Great Trango Tower in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range.

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