Opinion | 'The Carle family’s contribution to Front Range recreation is legendary, dating back over 130 years to when his great-grandparents started the business — today known as HW Stewart, Inc. — with a souvenir newspaper on Pikes Peak.'
News that the City and County of Denverwith life-long Coloradoan Bill Carle’s operation of Echo Lake Lodge beneath Mount Evans, which closed for the season last month, is distressing enough.
The Carle family’s contribution to Front Range recreation is legendary, dating back over 130 years to when his great-grandparents started the business — today known as HW Stewart, Inc. — with a souvenir newspaper on Pikes Peak. His grandmother became a Western Union Telegraph operator there where she met Carle’s grandfather doing photography; it was his mother who created their high-altitude donut recipe.Left: Nathan Hankins sits with his child during a party to close out the season on Oct.
Denver’s decision evokes one over 30 years ago by the U.S. Forest Service on Carle’s concession atop Mount Evans, reached via Colorado Highway 5 , the highest paved road in North America, which was completed in 1930. For nearly four decades, it served millions of tourists, its employees assisted hundreds of lost, stranded, injured, or ailing visitors to a summit where the atmospheric pressure is 60% that of sea-level. It was a vital communications center for the Alpine Rescue Team , during which Crest House employees provided first aid to trauma victims.
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