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Arapaho National Forest
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The Arapaho National Forest straddles the Continental Divide in north central Colorado and is named for the plains tribe that hunted in the foothills and rugged Front Range during the summer — still visible are the game-drive structures that the Arapaho used to ambush game. The mountains here are raw, exposing visceral geologic formations such as jagged ridges, broken buttresses, cloud-piercing pinnacles, cirques, and glaciers cracked by crevasses. Mountaineers come here to ascend the area's Class 4 and Class 5 peaks; still others come just to behold the mountains — to be bewildered and astonished.