By Seth Boster | Out There Colorado
The nonprofit leader in building and maintaining trails on Colorado’s highest peaks enters the field season with plans to progress on an unprecedented project.
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative is celebrating 30 years this summer. Mount Shavano represents “the most massive project that CFI has ever undertaken,” the organization’s executive director, Lloyd Athearn, has said.
Eight years ago, CFI bought 41 acres of old mining claims around the Chaffee County summit. That was ahead of work that began in 2021 to build new trail along the route deemed to be among the most environmentally damaging and unfriendly to hikers across the state’s fourteeners.