Topic: Leadville
La Ruta, a four-day mountain bike race held in Costa Rica that takes solo cyclists from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, was named by Time as one...
The Historic Delaware Hotel in Leadville, Colorado, Celebrates 125 Years. . Long known as the “Crown Jewel” of Leadville, Colorado, The Delaware...
Colorado is known as a mining state, just like California and Arizona. The Colorado Gold Rush began in 1859 when it was still part of Kansas and is...
Leadville is a historic mining town in Colorado . Local officials have declared a state emergency because they fear that this winter's extraordinarliy high snow totals have increased the risk that the tunnels in the mountains filled with contaminated water will overflow ...
The ultramarathon community was, up until recently, a small and cohesive group. The Leadville 100 miler, a famous ultra contested in Colorado annually since 1983, is not only run at altitudes between 9,200 feet and 12,620 feet, but it also ...
Vail, Aspen, the names summon images of skiers and snowboarders flashing down steep slopes of pristine, powdery snow, forests of trees covered with Christmas lights , pricey shops, tony restaurants and fancy hotels. Vail is where most visitors are likely to start the ...
Fairplay The Fairplay race is 29 miles and counts as an ultra-marathon . Leadville The Leadville race is 22 miles. The race goes to the top of Mosquito Pass , then comes back into town through the California Gulch Mining District, past the site ...
It seems there are resident ghosts in many deserted Colorado towns. Ashcroft, south of Aspen and Independence Pass, also has its share. Regardless of its small size, several dance houses populated Ashcroft and I wonder what melodies drifted through the windows of ...
For most, a vacation to Colorado conjures up a picture of the Rocky Mountains blanketed with fresh powder, there is so much more to the " In Colorado, they replace the population number with the altitude number in feet. And yes, just like ...
In 1885, Maggie and her brother, Daniel, moved to Leadville, Colorado. It was while living in Leadville, that Maggie met James Joseph (J.J.) Brown, a worker from the local silver mine, and also the child of poor Irish immigrants. In 1909 ...
