Private 14ers: How CFI Bought Mount Shavano's Summit to Build a Trail

[@randy5688]

Great video!! Nice work!😊

[@CentennialTreks]

Congratulations -that's wonderful to hear!

[@theantichrome9842]

Interesting. My family owned the Shavano summit. Seeing that they're spending $1M+ to rehab the trail, maybe we should have held out for more;-) I wonder if the CFI would consider naming the summit trail after my parents.

[@CO14ersInitiative]

Last year we bought another parcel on the saddle for 10% less despite the intervening pandemic-driven mountain real estate boom, so I think it was a fair price. Essentially all the money going into the project is paying for people to do the hard, physical work, food to feed crews and other trail tools and equipment. As to naming peaks, that is fully in the control of the federal board of geographic names, so outside of CFI's authority.

[@mateocarrera5623]

Or maybe your family could have rehabilitated the trail yourselves. I would much, MUCH rather it retain its name, which comes from a Ute warchief. If anything, it could get his real name: "Tarbiochaket" Why would we name it after the most recent purchasers of the land claim?

[@theantichrome9842]

@@CO14ersInitiative To be clear, I wasn't inquiring about renaming the peak.

[@CO14ersInitiative]

@@theantichrome9842 Sorry to misread your comment re: trail vs. peak. The feds control all decisions of naming trails, too. We just get to build them.

[@mateocarrera5623]

Amazing contribution to the CO mountaineering community. Thank you guys for all your hard work, you're amazaing