CLIMBER, 66, DIES IN RMNP

COUNTY» A Colorado LARIMER man fell to his death while climbing Saturday in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Henry Gholz, a 66-yearold from Fort Collins, fell about 50 feet while climbing the technical Batman and Robin route on the Batman Pinnacle. The rock is in the park’s Lumpy Ridge area, north of Estes Park.

Kyle Patterson, a park spokesman, said bystanders performed CPR on Gholz until rangers arrived. Rangers then tried to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

His body was recovered by a helicopter at 8:45 a.m. Sunday and taken to the Larimer County coroner’s office. The investigation is ongoing.

In 2013, a 22-year-old Fort Collins man also died climbing the Batman Pinnacle.

Manitou Springs weighing locations, rules for sex shops.

Three years after Manitou Springs created regulations for recreational marijuana stores, city officials are trying to finalize rules for another controversial industry: adult entertainment.

The city has been working since 2010 on a set of licensing requirements for “sexually oriented businesses” — the sanitized term for strip clubs, adult theaters, porn shops, sex toy retailers and other erotica vendors. But in Manitou Springs, where the commercial district is sandwiched among schools, parks and neighborhoods, the question is where to allow the businesses.

The City Council postponed a decision Sept. 19 on a proposed ordinance that included a list of location restrictions that would have prohibited the businesses on all but a few commercially zoned parcels in the city.

Under the law, each business would need to be at least 500 feet from a church, public library, day care facility, school, liquor store or recreational or medical marijuana business. The set of rules would have also prevented the businesses from opening on lots abutting El Paso Boulevard, Beckers Lane or Manitou, Park, Canon or Ruxton avenues.

First significant snowfall for the mountains.

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings and advisories for much of the central and northern Colorado high country through midnight Monday, marking the first significant snowfall of the season in Colorado’s mountains.

The largest snow totals are predicted for elevations above 10,000 feet. The mountains north of Interstate 70 were expected to receive 8 to 18 inches, with the mountains south of the highway expecting 5 to 10 inches.

Russell Danielson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boulder, said it started snowing Sunday morning in Jackson County at the Wyoming state line. The snow is expected to make travel hazardous, with the heaviest bands reducing visibility to near zero at times.

We are kind of in a wet pattern,” Danielson said. “So there won’t be a whole lot of melting initially. Then, toward the middle to late next week, we could see some warmer and drier conditions.”

The snow will fall as low as 8,500 feet along the I-70 corridor and down to near 7,000 feet at the Wyoming state line. The most snow is expected in Jackson, Grand and Larimer counties, with 8-16 inches and local amounts up to 2 feet. In Summit County, the weather service is forecasting 4 to 10 inches of snow.

Gunman killed by police at hotel.

Police responding to a report of a suspicious circumstance early Sunday at a hotel shot and killed a gunman, according to a news release from the department.

About 4:50 a.m., a guest at the Best Value Inn, 1809 N. College Ave., called police to report a loud noise and a hole that appeared in the ceiling above him.

Officers responded and attempted to make contact with a suspect. When he opened a door and was seen wielding a firearm, police said, one of the officers fired and struck the man, killing him.

The Larimer County coroner’s office will announce the identity of the suspect at a later time. No officers or hotel guests were injured, police said.

The Loveland Police Department will lead the investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call Loveland police at 970-962-2032 or Crime Stoppers at 970221-6868.

Pueblo gun shops join suicide prevention effort.

Pueblo gun shops and shooting ranges are participating in a suicide prevention program with help from local gun advocates.

The Pueblo Chieftain reported Sunday the gun dealers offer suicide prevention material alongside gun safety guidelines.

Sarah Brummett of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says the goal is to make suicide prevention part of gun safety culture.

The state health department works with local behavioral health experts from Health Solutions, a medical care provider in Pueblo. Two Health Solutions employees who use firearms approached the gun shops and shooting ranges about participating.

Pueblo Municipal Shooters, a volunteer, nonprofit group that promotes firearms safety, approached the prevention program about participating.

Officials say nearly half the suicides in Colorado involve firearms.