I warmed up for tomorrow’s big hike from Crested Butte to Aspen by climbing to the top of Scarp Ridge today. The trailhead lies just above Irwin Lake, about 20 minutes outside of Crested Butte. Park ...

Traversing from Aspen to Crested Butte via the 11-mile West Maroon Pass had been on my bucket list for years, but I was beginning to doubt that I could make it through the final downhill section. My ...

After the to-be-expected last-minute shuffling of our group, debates about bringing dogs, shuttling of cars and passing off forgotten keys to a High Mountain Taxi driver to take back to Aspen ...

The “Wildflower Capital of Colorado” is now in their 30th year of their wildflower festival. I went on a guided hike with one of their groups to learn a little more from local wildflower guru, Gary ...

A new Forest Service pit toilet has been installed at the trailhead on the Crested Butte side of the increasingly crowded Aspen-to-Crested Butte hike over West Maroon Pass. The project, completed last ...

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (KDVR) — If you are looking for some last-minute plans this weekend, Living Journeys is inviting people from all over Colorado to come and join them on a hike to the summit of Mt.

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. — 9NEWS reporter (and friend) Katie Eastman and I love Crested Butte--mostly because of its people and its beauty. That stuff is great. But we are also pigs, and love eating after ...

One day you’re hiking under blue skies, a valley full of gold-tipped aspens fluttering like tiny flags along the trail; the next you’re slogging through snow, skin dimpled like a plucked chicken and ...

At about 9:45 p.m. on Thursday, the Pitkin County Emergency Dispatch Center received a call from the Mount Crested Butte Police Department about two brothers who were overdue from their hike from ...