A new trail continues to take shape on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado.

Near the end of a fourth season of work, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) has announced opening another rerouted section of the path up Mount Shavano. The nonprofit is counting more than 1 1/2 miles of new trail finished across the mountain's lower and upper flanks.

CFI is marking construction complete in the lower woods, where the new segment ties into the preexisting route. The middle section is meeting the reroute above timberline, where work will continue next summer.

CFI Executive Director Lloyd Athearn has called it "the biggest, gnarliest project that CFI has ever undertaken."

Heading into this summer, he described "complex rock engineering" required on the upper reroute. From their camp, workers wou

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