Denver is home to a world-renowned rehabilitation hospital. Craig Hospital specializes in research and treatment of patients with brain and/or spinal cord injuries. Every year, the Craig Foundation hosts a fundraiser to help pay for rehabilitative costs that are not covered by insurance, for example, adaptive bikes and recreational therapy. Pedal 4 Possible is a cycling event for adaptive and non-adaptive riders. They take over High Plains Raceway, which is a fun, challenging road racing course. And, the riders love it.
“I get in that bicycle, not only do you have the breeze on your face, you have the sounds of the gear shifting, the giggling of your child having an experience along side you, the force of your breath as you’re exerting energy,” said Ashley Bristol, Pedal 4 Possible rider.
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Ashley Bristol
Bristol is hosting a Pedal 4 Possible team for the first time this year. Her team is called Wheelin’ It, and it’s made up of friends, family and former Criag patients from her hometown of Fort Morgan.
“It’s five years since my accident, and I wanted to be able to honor that, and I wanted to support Craig,” Bristol explained.
She was in a side-by-side ATV accident in September of 2019. The accident happened while the family was on a camping trip in Wyoming. Bristol made angels in the sand with her son moments before her whole life changed.
“My T5 and T6 vertebrae no longer exist, so that left me paralyzed from the T4 down,” Bristol said. “It was a hard pill to swallow… it was a big transition.”
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In the last five years, Bristol has learned to navigate the world in a new way. Craig Hospital not only helped her heal after the accident, but it’s helped her set new goals in her life.
“My personal goals to begin with were to remind myself and tell myself that I’m still enough. I’m still a mother. I’m still a wife. I still can come home and do family things and get back to life and make it as normal as possible,” she told CBS News Colorado.
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She achieved those goals and so much more. Since her accident she’s learned to navigate travel, she graduated college with a sociology degree, and she’s learned to bike again. Now she’s setting new goals for her rural hometown.
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“I want to bring awareness around inclusion and disability and how important every life is – no matter what life it is,” she said. “If more people would strive for accessibility a lot more change we would see.”
Bristol said that there is no limit to her adventures as long as she has Craig Hospital at her back.
“They’re always there to meet you at whatever that challenge or goal is and help you set the next one,” she said.
She’s back to hiking, camping, fly fishing and most of the activities her family loves to do.
“No, the adventure does not stop. I just keep going.”
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LINK: Register for Pedal 4 Possible
Anyone and everyone is invited to ride Pedal 4 Possible on Saturday, October 26, 2024. The ride starts at 11:00 and ends at 2:00. There are fully stocked “pit stops” along the course. Riders must register to take part.
Libby Smith
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Libby Smith is a special projects producer at CBS Colorado.
Police in Northern Colorado are investigating after a crash involving multiple vehicles claimed the life of a pedestrian.
The Greeley Police Department received reports of a crash at the 5500 block of Highway 34 around 5:50 p.m. on Monday. When officers arrived, they discovered that two vehicles were involved in a crash with a 19-year-old woman who attempted to walk across the highway.
Police said there was no crosswalk in the area, and she was struck by the driver’s side of a Chevrolet Blazer. The impact knocked the woman into the inside lane, where she was struck by a Chevrolet Traverse. A witness told officers they saw the woman crossing the roadway ‘as traffic arrived at her location.’
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First responders attempted life-saving measures on the woman at the scene before she was taken to North Colorado Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. GPD said the Weld County Coroner’s Office will release her identity at a later time.
Neither driver involved was injured in the crash. Police said they don’t expect charges to be filed against those drivers at the moment, but the case remains under investigation. The police department asked anyone with information on the crash to contact Officer Ed Kubala at Edward.Kubala@greeleypd.com.
Colorado’s best ski deal? Maybe one that costs nothing at all. At Steamboat Springs’ Howelsen Hill, “Sunday Funday is taken to an entirely new level,” reads the city webpage for Ski Free Sundays. Yes, on Sundays throughout the season, visitors need only to walk into the ticket office to grab a pass at no charge. […]
While Colorado ranks near the middle of U.S. states for carbon emissions per capita, it still produces enough CO2 per person to rival countries on the World Bank’s list of top emitters internationally.
In 2023, Colorado produced 13.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita. If it had been ranked by the World Bank during the same year, Colorado would have placed 14th among the more than 200 countries on the list, just behind Canada, at 14.1, and just ahead of the U.S. as a whole, at 13.7.
Among U.S. states, Colorado ranked 26th in carbon emissions per capita. Wyoming had the highest per capita emissions in the country, at 92.9 metric tons, while Maryland had the lowest, at 7.8.
Most of Colorado’s emissions come from energy production and consumption, primarily natural gas and oil production and electric power production and consumption.
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Colorado State Energy Profile, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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2023 Colorado Statewide Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, pg. 128, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, November 2024. Source link
Senate Bill 24-230 Oil and Gas Production Fees, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December, 2025. Source link
Senate Bill 23-016 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Measures, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Carbon dioxide emissions, World Bank Group, 2024, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Energy-related CO2 emission data tables, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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