CFI and Sustainable Trails

This season I am excited to be moving into a new role with CFI. I will spend the summer on 18 different peaks throughout the state evaluating, assessing, and inventorying the condition of their trails. Several years back CFI’s Sustainable Trails Program was born with...

Claire Comes CLIMBing in Colorado

In the last two weeks of May, I managed to work my way through four final exams (which involved a whole lot of painstaking map-making, evaluating wildfires and vulnerability across Chilean urban landscapes, interpreting Champlain Valley bedrock geology, and analyzing...

Off the Beaten Path

This season the Mount Columbia trail reconstruction crew will utilize a grip hoist and cable rigging system to move building materials (rocks) from the upper slopes of the mountain to our worksite below. As the multi-year project progresses into the second season our...

Thankful for the Fourteeners

After my first year living in Colorado and working full-time for CFI I can’t help but scroll through my photos from this summer and marvel at the amazing landscapes I get to call my office. In hopes of sparking your own memories from climbing I’d like to share a few...

Mount Columbia Project Summary

Long regarded as one of the worst 14er hiking trails in the state, Mount Columbia is much overdue for new sustainably-aligned summit route. When CFI performed baseline route condition inventories in 2011-2013, Mount Columbia’s North Hornfork Basin route ranked...