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A treasure trove of useful (and just plain fun) information about Colorado's mountain country. A handy-dandy, comprehensive, wide-ranging reference guide to settling (good-naturedly) any arguments about Colorado's high country. We're not just talking about population figures, elevation stats, or lists of Fourteeners and rivers, although these are included. You will learn far more including mountain lexicons (so that you'll know what a gutter bunny, potato chip, and prune really mean), Colorado as a movie set, Colorado songs, skiing, fishing, avalanches, geology, historic districts, hiking and…mehr
A treasure trove of useful (and just plain fun) information about Colorado's mountain country. A handy-dandy, comprehensive, wide-ranging reference guide to settling (good-naturedly) any arguments about Colorado's high country. We're not just talking about population figures, elevation stats, or lists of Fourteeners and rivers, although these are included. You will learn far more including mountain lexicons (so that you'll know what a gutter bunny, potato chip, and prune really mean), Colorado as a movie set, Colorado songs, skiing, fishing, avalanches, geology, historic districts, hiking and biking, snakes, Superfund sites, strange festivals, weather miserability index and much more.
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M. John Fayhee is the editor of the Mountain Gazette. A one-time contributing editor at Backpacker magazine, Fayhee's work has also appeared in Forbes-Life Mountain-Time, High Country News, Aspen Sojourner Magazine, Outside, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Men's Fitness, New Mexico Magazine, America West Airlines Magazine, Horizon Air and many other local, regional and national magazines and newspapers. He is the author of many books, including Along the Colorado Trail, A Colorado Winter and Bottoms Up. Fayhee has also hiked the Colorado Trail and the Colorado section of the Continental Divide Trail.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 7 The "Icebox of the Nation" Designation Not So Simple 13 Why Are Gunnison and Alamosa So Cold? 13 Windchill and the Weather Miserability Index 17 How Are Sunny Days Measured? 18 Non-Possessive Place Names 19 A Sense of Scale 20 Just Exactly How Big Is Colorado? 24 Colorado Mountain Lexicon 32 How Colorado's Mountain Towns Got Their Names 42 Highest Towns a Matter of Perspective 47 Establishing Colorado's Lowest Point 48 States Whose Highest Points Are Lower Than Colorado's Lowest Point 49 How Does Colorado Compare? 51 Mountain License Plates 53 Mountain Area Codes 56 Avalanches in Colorado 60 Impotence Drugs Reach New Peaks 61 Colorado Lakes and Reservoirs 66 Lakes and Ice 67 Safe Ice Thickness and Cold-Water Hypothermia 70 Lightning: The Fearsome Flash from Above 73 Monsoon Season 75 Cloud Seeding 80 Just How Much Water Is That? 83 Global Relations 84 "America the Beautiful": Colorado's Most Famous Musical Summit 87 Bates Not the Only Famous Person to Summit Pikes Peak 88 Rocky Mountain High 90 "Where the Columbines Grow"-The State Song That No One Knows 91 Colorado Songs 97 Colorado As a Movie Set 105 The Great Demonymic Debate: Coloradans or Coloradoans? 109 Colorado Olympic Athletes 123 Colorado: King of the Ski Industry 126 Colorado's Early Ski History: Highlights 137 Mountainspeak: Skiing Lexicon 145 The Naming of Colorado's Ski Runs 148 Colorado's "Lost" Ski Areas 153 The Colorado Ski Safety Act 155 Words for Snow-Eskimo and Colorado 159 "Texas" Ski Areas 160 Mountainspeak: Cross-Country Skiing Lexicon 163 Mountainspeak: Snowboarding Lexicon 165 Most Common Mountain Recreational Injuries 166 High Country Emergency Room Admission Statistics 167 Colorado Mountain Pathogens 169 Native Americans in Colorado 175 Colorado Geology: The Laramide Orogeny 176 Colorado Geology: The Rio Grande Rift Valley 178 Colorado Geology: The Aspen Anomaly 179 Colorado Geology: Colorado's Highest-Ever Mountains 180 The Naming of Geographic Features 186 Gorges Versus Canyons 189 The Fourteeners 192 Colorado Fourteener Records 195 Peak Prominence and Isolation 198 The Most Dangerous Fourteeners 203 Mountainspeak: Climbing Lexicon 207 The 3,000-Foot "Rule" 209 Colorado's Steepest Points 210 The Peaks of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech 211 Headwaters Hill and Colorado's Closed Basins 214 The Naming of Challenger Point 216 Some Noteworthy Colorado Uphills 216 Colorado's Long Hiking Trails and the National Scenic Trails 219 Mountainspeak: Hiking and Backpacking Lexicon 227 Mountainspeak: Mountain Biking Lexicon 228 Public and/or Protected Land in Colorado 230 Colorado's Wilderness 238 Colorado: Birthplace of Major Rivers 242 Mountainspeak: Fishing Lexicon 244 Colorado's Endangered Rivers 247 Wild and Scenic Rivers 252 Colorado's Highest Roads 253 Mountainspeak: Road Biking Lexicon 257 Colorado Wildfires 261 Other Large Wildfires in Western North America 263 All Firewood Is Not Created Equal 265 Endangered and Threatened Species in the Colorado Mountains 273 Colorado Mountain Birds 277 Fatal Bear and Mountain Lion Attacks in Colorado 278 High Country Snakes 280 The Colorado State Flower: What Exactly Is It? 281 The Colorado State Quarter 284 Superfund Sites 290 Strange Colorado Festivals 301 Aspen: The Brand-Name King 302 Smoking Bans: It All Started in Colorado's Mountain Country 303 Colorado's Mountain Historic Districts 310 Legalized Gambling in Colorado 312 Mountain Counties Most Often Vote Blue 318 Changing Your Name 322 Home Away from Home (Extradition) 325 Listing Colorado 331 Index 341 About the Author
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 7 The "Icebox of the Nation" Designation Not So Simple 13 Why Are Gunnison and Alamosa So Cold? 13 Windchill and the Weather Miserability Index 17 How Are Sunny Days Measured? 18 Non-Possessive Place Names 19 A Sense of Scale 20 Just Exactly How Big Is Colorado? 24 Colorado Mountain Lexicon 32 How Colorado's Mountain Towns Got Their Names 42 Highest Towns a Matter of Perspective 47 Establishing Colorado's Lowest Point 48 States Whose Highest Points Are Lower Than Colorado's Lowest Point 49 How Does Colorado Compare? 51 Mountain License Plates 53 Mountain Area Codes 56 Avalanches in Colorado 60 Impotence Drugs Reach New Peaks 61 Colorado Lakes and Reservoirs 66 Lakes and Ice 67 Safe Ice Thickness and Cold-Water Hypothermia 70 Lightning: The Fearsome Flash from Above 73 Monsoon Season 75 Cloud Seeding 80 Just How Much Water Is That? 83 Global Relations 84 "America the Beautiful": Colorado's Most Famous Musical Summit 87 Bates Not the Only Famous Person to Summit Pikes Peak 88 Rocky Mountain High 90 "Where the Columbines Grow"-The State Song That No One Knows 91 Colorado Songs 97 Colorado As a Movie Set 105 The Great Demonymic Debate: Coloradans or Coloradoans? 109 Colorado Olympic Athletes 123 Colorado: King of the Ski Industry 126 Colorado's Early Ski History: Highlights 137 Mountainspeak: Skiing Lexicon 145 The Naming of Colorado's Ski Runs 148 Colorado's "Lost" Ski Areas 153 The Colorado Ski Safety Act 155 Words for Snow-Eskimo and Colorado 159 "Texas" Ski Areas 160 Mountainspeak: Cross-Country Skiing Lexicon 163 Mountainspeak: Snowboarding Lexicon 165 Most Common Mountain Recreational Injuries 166 High Country Emergency Room Admission Statistics 167 Colorado Mountain Pathogens 169 Native Americans in Colorado 175 Colorado Geology: The Laramide Orogeny 176 Colorado Geology: The Rio Grande Rift Valley 178 Colorado Geology: The Aspen Anomaly 179 Colorado Geology: Colorado's Highest-Ever Mountains 180 The Naming of Geographic Features 186 Gorges Versus Canyons 189 The Fourteeners 192 Colorado Fourteener Records 195 Peak Prominence and Isolation 198 The Most Dangerous Fourteeners 203 Mountainspeak: Climbing Lexicon 207 The 3,000-Foot "Rule" 209 Colorado's Steepest Points 210 The Peaks of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech 211 Headwaters Hill and Colorado's Closed Basins 214 The Naming of Challenger Point 216 Some Noteworthy Colorado Uphills 216 Colorado's Long Hiking Trails and the National Scenic Trails 219 Mountainspeak: Hiking and Backpacking Lexicon 227 Mountainspeak: Mountain Biking Lexicon 228 Public and/or Protected Land in Colorado 230 Colorado's Wilderness 238 Colorado: Birthplace of Major Rivers 242 Mountainspeak: Fishing Lexicon 244 Colorado's Endangered Rivers 247 Wild and Scenic Rivers 252 Colorado's Highest Roads 253 Mountainspeak: Road Biking Lexicon 257 Colorado Wildfires 261 Other Large Wildfires in Western North America 263 All Firewood Is Not Created Equal 265 Endangered and Threatened Species in the Colorado Mountains 273 Colorado Mountain Birds 277 Fatal Bear and Mountain Lion Attacks in Colorado 278 High Country Snakes 280 The Colorado State Flower: What Exactly Is It? 281 The Colorado State Quarter 284 Superfund Sites 290 Strange Colorado Festivals 301 Aspen: The Brand-Name King 302 Smoking Bans: It All Started in Colorado's Mountain Country 303 Colorado's Mountain Historic Districts 310 Legalized Gambling in Colorado 312 Mountain Counties Most Often Vote Blue 318 Changing Your Name 322 Home Away from Home (Extradition) 325 Listing Colorado 331 Index 341 About the Author
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