*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on September 23, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Size isn’t everything, even with Fourteeners. One of the most iconic of the gigantic peaks may well be the Mount of the…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on September 16, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. There’s at a peak northwest of Salida, that some say, in the springtime, after the snow starts to melt, has an angel gracing…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on September 9, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “Elbert” is just a guy. Just some guy, who happens to be the namesake of Colorado’s highest Fourteener, all 14,440 feet of…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on September 2, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “Fourteeners” is a weird word. If you think about it, 14 is just one of those numbers that doesn’t get a lot…