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Grays Peak
[ greyz ]
noun
- a mountain in N central Colorado; highest point in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,270 feet (4,352 meters).
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While the eggs are incubating, which takes about 35 days, the area far below the nest, including the Grays Peak Trail and the Grout Bay Picnic Area, has been closed to the public since Dec. 1.
Off-limit areas include the lower portion of the Grays Peak Trail, the Grout Bay Picnic Area, part of Grays Peak Road and all of what’s known as Lumpy Road.
The Denver Daily Tribune reported, "Cheer after cheer echoed and re-echoed among the surrounding mountains," and revelers on Grays Peak, a summit west of Denver, fired revolvers to celebrate and broke out into "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
The results show a large portion of those annual trips are split among a handful of Front Range peaks - Mount Bierstadt, Grays Peak and Torreys Peak - that each saw from 20,000 to 25,000 hiking days last year.
In the late 1990s, a race called Montezuma’s Revenge had participants hike and bike over 14,278-foot Grays Peak at midnight.
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