The Colorado Mountain Companion - A Potpourri of Useful Miscellany from the Highest Parts of the Highest State

You will learn 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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TABLE OF CONTENTS1 Introduction7 The "Icebox of the Nation" Designation Not So Simple13 Why Are Gunnison and Alamosa So Cold?13 Windchill and the Weather Miserability Index17 How Are Sunny Days Measured?18 Non-Possessive Place Names19 A Sense of Scale20 Just Exactly How Big Is Colorado?24 Colorado Mountain Lexicon32 How Colorado's Mountain Towns Got Their Names42 Highest Towns a Matter of Perspective47 Establishing Colorado's Lowest Point48 States Whose Highest Points Are Lower Than Colorado's Lowest Point49 How Does Colorado Compare?51 Mountain License Plates53 Mountain Area Codes56 Avalanches in Colorado60 Impotence Drugs Reach New Peaks61 Colorado Lakes and Reservoirs66 Lakes and Ice67 Safe Ice Thickness and Cold-Water Hypothermia70 Lightning: The Fearsome Flash from Above73 Monsoon Season75 Cloud Seeding80 Just How Much Water Is That?83 Global Relations84 "America the Beautiful": Colorado's Most Famous Musical Summit87 Bates Not the Only Famous Person to Summit Pikes Peak88 Rocky Mountain High90 "Where the Columbines Grow"-The State Song That No One Knows91 Colorado Songs97 Colorado As a Movie Set105 The Great Demonymic Debate: Coloradans or Coloradoans?109 Colorado Olympic Athletes123 Colorado: King of the Ski Industry126 Colorado's Early Ski History: Highlights137 Mountainspeak: Skiing Lexicon145 The Naming of Colorado's Ski Runs148 Colorado's "Lost" Ski Areas153 The Colorado Ski Safety Act155 Words for Snow-Eskimo and Colorado159 "Texas" Ski Areas160 Mountainspeak: Cross-Country Skiing Lexicon163 Mountainspeak: Snowboarding Lexicon165 Most Common Mountain Recreational Injuries166 High Country Emergency Room Admission Statistics167 Colorado Mountain Pathogens169 Native Americans in Colorado175 Colorado Geology: The Laramide Orogeny176 Colorado Geology: The Rio Grande Rift Valley178 Colorado Geology: The Aspen Anomaly179 Colorado Geology: Colorado's Highest-Ever Mountains180 The Naming of Geographic Features186 Gorges Versus Canyons189 The Fourteeners192 Colorado Fourteener Records195 Peak Prominence and Isolation198 The Most Dangerous Fourteeners203 Mountainspeak: Climbing Lexicon207 The 3,000-Foot "Rule"209 Colorado's Steepest Points210 The Peaks of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech211 Headwaters Hill and Colorado's Closed Basins214 The Naming of Challenger Point216 Some Noteworthy Colorado Uphills216 Colorado's Long Hiking Trails and the National Scenic Trails219 Mountainspeak: Hiking and Backpacking Lexicon227 Mountainspeak: Mountain Biking Lexicon228 Public and/or Protected Land in Colorado230 Colorado's Wilderness238 Colorado: Birthplace of Major Rivers242 Mountainspeak: Fishing Lexicon244 Colorado's Endangered Rivers247 Wild and Scenic Rivers252 Colorado's Highest Roads253 Mountainspeak: Road Biking Lexicon257 Colorado Wildfires261 Other Large Wildfires in Western North America263 All Firewood Is Not Created Equal265 Endangered and Threatened Species in the Colorado Mountains273 Colorado Mountain Birds277 Fatal Bear and Mountain Lion Attacks in Colorado278 High Country Snakes280 The Colorado State Flower: What Exactly Is It?281 The Colorado State Quarter284 Superfund Sites290 Strange Colorado Festivals301 Aspen: The Brand-Name King302 Smoking Bans: It All Started in Colorado's Mountain Country303 Colorado's Mountain Historic Districts310 Legalized Gambling in Colorado312 Mountain Counties Most Often Vote Blue318 Changing Your Name322 Home Away from Home (Extradition)325 Listing Colorado331 Index341 About the Author

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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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori	M. John Fayhee
Editore	West Margin Press
Lingue	Inglese
Formato	Tascabile
Pubblicazione	15.09.2012
EAN	9780871089601
ISBN	978-0-87108-960-1
Pagine	350
Dimensioni	140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
Peso	441 g
Serie	Pruett; Pruett
Categoria	Guide e manuali > Sport > Sport invernali

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: M. John Fayhee
• Editore: West Margin Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9780871089601
• ISBN: 978-0-87108-960-1
• Pagine: 350
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Peso: 441 g
• Serie: Pruett; Pruett
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Sport > Sport invernali