A gorgeous sunny morning greeted me in my camp at the trailhead for the Wetterhorn, 14,017 feet high. It shares the name of a famous Swiss peak above the village of Grindlewald. I was weathered off ...

The Hike: The valleys surrounding the different forks of the Cimarron River, to the east of Ridgway, feel like hidden gardens of Eden: trickling water, lush grasses, narrow gorges, and several jagged ...

After our Täschhorn expedition, we thought the Wetterhorn would be an easy one, but it wasn’t. On the first day, we hiked to the Glecksteinhütte and spent the night there. We arrived pretty late, ...

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Wetterhorn Peak is named after the famous Wetterhorn of the Swiss Alps. The Wheeler Survey team, which issued the name, believed this peak resembled the one in Switzerland. The moniker fits well ...

87.5 x 141 cm. (34.4 x 55.5 in.) ...