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- CFI Seasonal Job Announcements Posted
– February 7, 2012
CFI is looking for 12 enthusiastic, hard-working seasonal staff leaders/members to complete our most ambitious project season in years. If you think you have what … Read More
- Endowment Gift to Support Adopt-a-Peak Internship Renamed in Memory of Fourteener Enthusiast Kimberly Appelson
– February 3, 2012
A $50,000 gift from Larry and Barbara Appelson of Naperville, Ill. will seed an endowment designed to support Colorado Fourteeners Initiative’s summer internship for aspiring … Read More
- Ben Hanus joins CFI’s staff as Sustainable Trails Project Coordinator
– January 14, 2012
We are excited to announce that Ben Hanus, an employee on CFI projects the past three seasons, has joined the core staff as the coordinator … Read More
- 2011 Year-end Summary, 2012 Season Preview
– December 19, 2011
Take a quick look back at this past summer’s record accomplishments. Or, take a sneak peak at next year’s planned projects. Both can be found … Read More
Current & Future Projects
2011 Field Season
Since its inception in 1994, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative has built 24 sustainably located summit trails on 22 Fourteeners. This summer CFI is working on the following trail reconstruction and restoration projects to continue working towards the goal of ensuring every Fourteener has a sustainable summit route.
Mount Yale:After three seasons constructing the rerouted trail segment, which was opened last September, a season-long project is restoring the mile-long badly eroded social trail that formerly served as the summit route. In some places the devastation is 15-20 feet wide and a few feet deep. In addition, several switchbacks lower down on the reroute are being hardened and reinforced to handle the high use the peak receives.
Mount of the Holy Cross: In early August CFI will pack in for the first year to begin delineating and reconstructing the primary ascent route, which has been the cause of many rescues and trampling of vegetation by lost hikers. Trail work will continue in 2012, as well as closing and restoring campsites along Cross Creek and establishing designated sites in a more appropriate location.
2012 Field Season
Assuming funding comes in as planned, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative will be constructing sustainable summit routes and performing vegetation restoration work on the following peaks:
Mount of the Holy Cross: Complete the second season of work to complete this project.
North Maroon Peak: Begin the first of an anticipated two seasons of work building a new ascent route in a more sustainable location between the Maroon-Snowmass Trail and the rock glacier where the route gains the peak’s Northeast Ridge.
San Luis Peak:Begin the first of an anticipated two seasons of work building sustainable routes from both the Stewart Creek and Cochetopa Creek sides of this remote Fourteener.
2013 Field Season
Assuming funding comes in as planned, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative will be constructing sustainable summit routes and performing vegetation restoration work on the following peaks:
North Maroon Peak: Complete the new approach route and close/restore the current user-created route, which is wet and heavily eroded.
San Luis Peak:Complete the new summit route and perform restoration on the closed user-created route.
El Diente Peak/Mount Wilson:Perform a one-year trail reconstruction and vegetation restoration project on the approach route via Kilpacker Basin.