Southern Front Range Trail Guide-Trails Within 50 Miles of Pueblo, Colorado- 2nd Edition

Nadia N. Brelje

ISBN 10: 0974024910 / ISBN 13: 9780974024912

Published by Medici Publishing, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Southern Front Range Trail Guide-Trails Within 50 Miles of Pueblo, Colorado- 2nd Edition
• Publisher: Medici Publishing
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974024910
• ISBN 13: 9780974024912
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Color And B&W Illustration
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Details more than 225 miles of 49 trails in Beulah, Canon City, Colorado Springs, Florence, Ophir Creek, Bigelow Divide (Fairview), Penrose, Pueblo, Rye, San Isabel, Walsenburg and Wetmore. Ms. Brelje has penned her first book, titled ``Southern Front Range Trail Guide: Trails Within 50 Miles of Pueblo, Colorado" "I love it here," she said. ``I've climbed all the Fourteeners at least once and about half of them twice." The Fourteeners are a group of 54 Colorado mountains exceeding 14,000 feet in height, and, in series, a popular climbing challenge and goal. In June 1982, Ms. Brelje joined the El Pueblo Mountain Club and within six months became an officer and a trip leader. She credits fellow Mountain Club members for giving her the idea to write the ``Southern Front Range Trail Guide." At the time, she was taking a course on writing children's books. "When I took on the project, I thought there were only 12 trails, but as I later found out, there are four times that many,so it turned out to be a much bigger project than I ever anticipated." The self-published and self-distributed book details more than 225 miles of 49 trails in Beulah, Canon City, Colorado Springs, Florence, Ophir Creek, Bigelow Divide (Fairview), Penrose, Pueblo, Rye, San Isabel, Walsenburg and Wetmore. Ms. Brelje has hiked each and every trail and assures that there are hikes for the ``young and the old, for the physically fit and the couch potato." Some are short, 30-minute hikes, while others are all-day excursions. The trail guide also offers some trail history, geology and steps to take for a better outing. All the photos (with the exception of one used with permission from the Beulah Historical Society) and maps are to Ms. Brelje's credit. A project that was 10 years in the making, the trail guide has become Ms. Brelje's labor of love. (From the Pueblo Chieftan July 15, 1999)