Thanks to 3 feet of fresh, early-season snow, the Rio Grande Trail in Aspen opened prior to Thanksgiving 2024 — significantly sooner than its typical start. Now, in March, high temperatures and ...

As an amateur runner, I was gobsmacked by the performance of Carbondale’s Forrest Barton earlier this month on July 19 in the Power of Four trail run. The aptly named Forrest ran through the ...

And 1.2 percent favored doing both. Written comments from the survey included enthusiastic pleas, including, “Please finish paving the Rio Grande Trail!!!!!!!!!!” ...

While the Rio Grande Trail still has years to go before it’s a well-established thru-hike, it’s a beautiful project in the making, and I’d be excited to tackle the whole thing.