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Finally, there is Mt. Harvard, Colorado's third highest mountain, at 14,420 feet. The mountain, part of the Sawatch Range, is part of a chain called the Collegiate Peaks, which include Mts. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Oxford, about 90 miles southwest of Denver...
Finally, there is Mt. Harvard, Colorado's third highest mountain, at 14,420 feet. The mountain, part of the Sawatch Range, is part of a chain called the Collegiate Peaks, which include Mts. Harvard, Yale Princeton, Columbia and Oxford, about 90 miles southwest of Denver...
...skitown Crested Buite. Go left at Almont, past Taylor Park Reservoir. At the lake, go right. A bumpy seven-mile dirt road brings you through a glade into Tin Cup. Yes, that is its name. A half-doezen log cabins nestle at the Western foot of the Sawatch Range. There's an ice-cold brook to drink from, and miles of meadows and mountain trails to explore...
...Sunday, Aug. 24, 1873, pioneer Western Photographer William H. Jackson and his helpers clambered up the iced boulders of Colorado's wild Sawatch mountains with a bulky camera, primitive film, darkroom tent and developing chemicals to make the first photograph of a natural wonder: the Mountain of the Holy Cross. Jackson made thousands of other pictures, but Holy Cross was considered his masterpiece. Despite technical progress, the thousands of Holy Cross photographs made since never surpassed Jackson's famous picture. And none, it turned out last week, ever will...
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