By Seth Boster
From The Gazette
Colorado Springs—The effort to build a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak is entering a fifth summer—what figures to be “a big year,” according to the project leader.
Since 2020, Rocky Mountain Field Institute’s Carl Woody has overseen progress on a rerouted Devils Playground Trail hampered by pandemic-related complications. While often short-handed and slowed by health and safety precautions, the focus the past few years has been on building retaining walls and timber checks aimed at resisting erosion—what has been the long-viewed problem for the existing trail up the backside of the 14,115-foot mountain….