Well-maintained campgrounds once dotted the Weminuche Wilderness. Mountain goats roamed far beyond Chicago Basin. Delicate pink pygmy bitterroot flowers bloomed deep in the backcountry. These were ...

Snow still covers the Elk Mountains north of Crested Butte as the wildflowers bloom in the Almont Triangle Area in this June 28 photo. How about this for a New Year’s resolution: to explore sides of ...

At just shy of half a million acres, the Weminuche Wilderness in southwestern Colorado is the largest in the state, the most remote and now is slightly larger than it was yesterday. This past winter, ...