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‘Queen of the 14ers’: Outdoors lure employee into 33-year career atop 14,000+ foot mountains

woman surveying a rockslide
Loretta McEllhiney surveys flora on San Luis peak in the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forest. As the Colorado Fourteeners Program manager, she is responsible for not only the safety of trails on 47 Colorado mountains higher than 14,000 feet, but she also has grown into an expert about…
colorado, recreate, climbing, alpine, tundra
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