by admin | Jul 8, 2016 | blog
For the first time ever in the history of CFI we used llamas this season to assist with our pack-in deep into Chicago Basin and they were awesome! Traditionally here at CFI we have used horses and mules to help get all of our gear up, but this year we used a combo. A...
by admin | Jun 30, 2016 | blog
This year my work for CFI is focused on Quandary Peak, just south of Breckenridge. We’re four weeks into our season, and time is flying by!  I’m enjoying my time on the mountain immensely and am fascinated by the constant changes that take place. Life at high...
by admin | Jun 24, 2016 | blog
After a couple of weeks spent on fundraising research and crunching numbers on previous years’ Sustainable Trails data, last week I was beyond excited to corral all of my camping gear and head out to the woods. It was an incredible and productive week of establishing...
by admin | Jun 20, 2016 | blog
I couldn’t figure out which part was worse; the fact it was 8 o’clock in the evening and darkness was already beginning to fall or that there was now more than 1000 feet of elevation in between me and my sleeping bag. We had just hiked down from Summit Lake on the...
by admin | Jun 18, 2016 | blog
Phase II of the Sustainable Trails Program began in 2014 when CFI placed the first five TRAFx trail counters in the field. These compact, unobtrusive devices are buried in cairns or mounted on trees along the summit routes to help CFI gain a better understanding of...
by admin | Aug 20, 2015 | blog
Yea, yea, yea. The Uncompahgre Wilderness isn’t exactly grizzly country, along with the rest of Colorado. But, despite their massive size, menacing strength and speed, and the colloquial diction pervading from grizzly’s Latin name, ursus horiblus, it turns out that...
