Camp Hale
The 10th Mountain Division, created for alpine and winter combat during World War II, girded for battle on the steep, inhospitable terrain of Camp Hale (about twenty-five miles southwest of here). Built at an old railroad sheep-loading stop, the base opened in 1942 with 8,000 recruits, many of them veteran mountaineers. Their specialize training kept them above 10,000 feet for days on end, poling cross-country under ninety-pound loads. These exercises increased endurance and taught important wilderness and cold-weather survival skills; however, they also landed hundreds in sickbay with frostbite and hypothermia. Camp Hale housed 15,000 military personnel (and hundreds of German POWs) during the war; today the area serves thousands of civilian skiers, who glide down some of the old training slopes at Ski Cooper or make cross-country journeys on the 10th Mountain Division Hut System.HM Number | HM13OC |
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Series | This marker is part of the Colorado: History Colorado series |
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Marker Number | 246 |
Year Placed | 2001 |
Placed By | Colorado Historical Society and the Colorado Department of Transportation |
Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Sunday, September 7th, 2014 at 7:56am PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 13S E 395313 N 4376028 |
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Decimal Degrees | 39.52753333, -106.21805000 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 39° 31.652', W 106° 13.083' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 39° 31' 39.12" N, 106° 13' 4.98" W |
Driving Directions | Google Maps |
Area Code(s) | 970 |
Closest Postal Address | At or near 22966-22990 County Rd 16, Frisco CO 80443, US |
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