May-June 2003 • Issue # 977

In this issue:

Features:
A first ascent of Peak T in the Gore Range
Pemba Sherpa's Nepal connection
PLUS:
Education: Callibrating that GPS system
Hiking in drought conditions
Switchbacks: conservation
Mountain festival will be better than ever this year
Newsbriefs
Calendar of events
Charles Rossiter poem: "Another Mile-High Poem"

Wild Colorado

A primer on Colorado water law

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs explains the method behind the madness of Colorado Water law
The Hayman Fire report
Efforts continue to remove protection from Colorado wild lands
CMC conservation announces a "Stewardship Program"
Noxious weed removal