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Show 2E Sunday, May 31, 1992 HORIZONS Colorado is heaven for hikers Most mountains have easy trails, as well as tougher routes Standard-Examiner staff and wire services Colorado, with 54 peaks over 14,000 feet, has six times the mountainous terrain of Switzerland. So says the Colorado Tourism Board, which describes the state as a mountain climber’s haven. Despite their height, most of Colorado’s “14ers” haverelatively easy hiking trails to the top, as well as technically challenging routes, according to the tourism board. One peak, Culebra, is the only privately owned peak in the state. Another, Mount Holy Cross, was once a national monument, sought out for religious pilgrimages. Yet another, Long’s Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, is considered one of the greatest mountain climbs in the United States. The view from Pike’s Peak near Colorado Springs was so inspiring to Katherine Lee Bates that in 1890, while visiting the 14,100-foot peak, she penned the words to “America the Beautiful.” The state also has a wide system of trails, including the 470-mile Colorado Trail, which ranges from Denver to Durango. It crosses eight mountain ranges, seven national forests, six wilderness areas and five river systems. It requires six to eight weeks to hiketheentiretrail, but day hikes can be made. For more information, contact the Colorado Tourism Board at Wednesday, Thursday and Friday WESTERN ROUNDUP evening at the Cortez Community Opera in the parks Utah Opera Companywill take its music to several Utah state parks in June. On June 11, the company will perform at Palisade State Park, south of Manti. The second concert will be June 12 at Kodachrome Basin State Park near Bryce Canyon in southern Utah. The final concert will be June 13 at Snow CanyonState Park north And every Saturday morning through harvest season, a farmers’ market is held in the courthouse The Idaho Historical Museum in Boise will sponsor the exhibit “Bears: Imagination and Reality” parking lot. For more information about in the exhibit’s only venue west of Cortez, call (800) 253-1616. the Rocky Mountains. The exhibit was created by the Science Museum of Minnesota and looks at bears through dioramas, flip books, computer games and videos. All aspects of the animal are New themepark in works Yet another California theme park — this one with the flavor of a county fair — is being built. Called Hecker Pass: A Family included, from hunting to its biology, habitat and natural history. Adventure, the $30 million project is being built near Gilroy, some 30 miles south of San Jose. bears, bear traps and bear-proof When it’s finished in 1994, the camping equipment. park will have a children’s petting Artifacts include a Native Amer- The exhibit opens June 6 and continues through the summer. For more information, call the museum at (208) 334-2120. zoo, walk-in aviary, lake and waterfalls, narrow gaugetrains, a carousel and a water ride. More than 500 varieties of native California plants Custer stands again are being incorporated into the Certainly a sight to see will be the June 25-28 re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand. More than 200 volunteer Native Americans and settlers in period costumes both on horseback and in covered wagons will participate. Hardin, Mont., where all this takes place, will also be celebrating its Little Big Horn Days with a performance bythe 7th Cavalry Riders, parades and street fairs. The southwestern Colorado communityof Cortez hosts several Western-flavored events that run continually through the summer. Theyare: Native American dances, at 7 p.m. each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening in downtown Cortez. Western gunfighters perform All three outdoor concerts will begin at 7 p.m. and are open to the public. The concerts will consist of popular selections from musical theater and opera RAE Morris Travel ican grizzly claw necklace, teddy lecture and give demonstrations at Representative grown, grafted and trained into Strange shapes. Events in the West American Express is pleased to welcome Morris Travel as a Representative in its worldwide Network of travel service offices. As a customer of Morris Travel, you, too, can benefit from American Express’s min the largest event of its kind west of the Mississippi, some 2,500 vintage aircraft from the United States and Canada will fly into Merced, Calif., during the West Coast Antique Fly-In June 5-7. 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