Rocky Mountain High
Carol Kauder of Colorado Public Radio reports on the popular ourdoor trend of “peak bagging” or hiking up Colorado’s many fourteen-thousand foot mountainsides to tell it on t-shirts. Some people worry that the new crowds are harming the delicate alpine environment and are developing ways to help reduce erosion.
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