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Haunted Tunnels: Chasing Ghosts on Colorado's Gold Camp Road
Restless spirits have long haunted the Pikes Peak region. Cripple Creek, an 1890s gold mining town on the west side of Pikes Peak, is repute
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Dateline 1978: Climbers at The Cobbler in Colorado Springs
Back in the late 1970s, the local climbers in Colorado Springs would congregate every day at the Cobbler Mountain Shop at 10 South 25th Stre
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#1 Bestseller in Mythology and Folklore](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/396ca8_02b75c4fdd2f43519acd811c23f7ae00~mv2_d_1706_2560_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/396ca8_02b75c4fdd2f43519acd811c23f7ae00~mv2_d_1706_2560_s_2.webp)
ROCK ART: My Newest Book Released! #1 Bestseller in Mythology and Folklore
Last Friday, September 28, Falcon Guides released my newest book Rock Art: The Meanings and Myths Behind Ancient Ruins in the Southwest and
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Climbing Fashion in the Stoned Age: Those 1970s Rock Climbing Clothes
The 1970s were a momentous time in not only American history but also rock climbing fashion. It was a time of sweeping out the stogy fashion
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Garden of the Gods with a New View: Gazette Newpaper Article
Here's an article by Seth Boster that appears in this morning's Gazette newspaper about climbing at the Garden of the Gods, one of m
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Dateline 1858: First Anglo Woman to Climb Pikes Peak
On August 5, 1858, 160 years ago this year, 20-year-old Julia Archibald Holmes reached the airy 14,115-foot-high summit of Pikes Peak, perha