Word: colorado
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...paragraph stories that appeared in most of the nation's press didn't tell much. As usual, Hersey, 36, an Englishman who lived in Boulder, Colorado, had been climbing alone. No one knows what went wrong, at what height, on a route that should have been relatively easy for him. It was a private death, leaving too few scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope...
Another event of two weekends ago, however, the opening of Sylvester Stallone's ridiculous rock-jock thriller Cliffhanger, left lots to say. For one thing, the movie is set in Colorado but was filmed in Italy. The towering white needles of the Dolomites don't look anything like the massive peaks of the Rockies, and . . . ah, the hell with it. What really irks is that all the heroics, the nifty pendulum swings and the human-fly action below the 40-ft. overhangs, are sure to bring more flatlanders into the mountains...
Crowds are worse on Colorado's 14,255-ft. Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Last year some 29,000 hikers reached the top, a rise of 53% since 1990. This is a nose-to-tail wilderness experience. Permits are assigned by lottery to climb Mount Whitney, above California's Owens Valley, at 14,494 ft., the highest summit in the Lower 48 states. The limit is 50 people a day in the favored period of late summer, and by the end of April all the slots were assigned...
...networks comes in as many flavors as there are positions in the Kama Sutra. If your taste runs to explicit pictures, there are thousands of them on such bulletin boards as Nixpix in Aspen, Colorado, and Odyssey in Monrovia, California. Jim Maxey, a former journalist and part-time private eye who runs the Event Horizons system in Lake Oswego, Oregon, grossed $3.5 million last year from computer users willing to pay $9 an hour to connect to his bulging database of R- and X-rated digital images and film loops...
Janelle Parks from the University of New Mexico won yesterday's women's race. Tyler Hamilton, a University of Colorado junior who hails from nearby Marlboro, Mass., won the men's race in front of family and friends...