Colorado’s 14ers are ‘generally accessible’ after record-low snow, allowing for trail work to get underway

Colorado’s 14ers are ‘generally accessible’ after record-low snow, allowing for trail work to get underway

Colorado’s summit-bagging season is getting underway as snow melts from the highest peaks weeks earlier than usual, following the state’s worst snowpack on record this past winter. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative Executive Director Lloyd Athearn said while the nonprofit’s trail crews often encounter snow in June that can make it “problematic” to set up basecamp for trail work near treeline, that hasn’t been the case this year. “Trailheads are ge…