In a state filled with diverse terrain, no destination offers quite the juxtaposition as St. Mary’s Glacier. Even in the state’s warmest months, St. Mary’s is peppered with snowshoers, boarders, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the middle of July when a heat advisory flashes across a phone to warn of 100-plus-degree days approaching, a hike to a perpetual patch of snow sounds ...

A man hiking near St. Mary’s Glacier in Clear Creek County, Colorado, died Thursday after plummeting from a ridge. The Alpine Rescue Team, a non-profit organization based in Evergreen, was notified ...

At 13,294 feet, James Peak is tough to climb in the middle of summer. Lewis Walker, 27, and Byron Sortor, 28, did it at the end of December. “We were thinking it would be a day hike. Nothing too ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An Illinois banker spending the afternoon with his family at Idaho Spring’s St. Mary’s Glacier — an hour west of Denver — fell 300 feet to his death, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Nestled high above I-70 and up a road that snakes into the mountains beyond Idaho Springs, Colorado, there is a small lake at the base of a glacier. St. Mary’s Glacier, one ...

The hike to St. Mary’s Glacier is quintessential Colorado for a few reasons. For the rugged and sweeping scenery. For the easy access — that spoiled feeling we get only an hour’s drive from Denver.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — One person died after rescue ...