Newcomer, eh?
I've been here since '68. (Boulder was my residence off & on alternating with Ft Collins until '86, and since then just FC).
Pay much attention to Denver/Boulder in those days?
Denver:
La Raza Unida, Corky Gonzales, "Chicano" activists.
Broncos always at the bottom of their division. Only talent on the team was star college running back Floyd Little ("Little up the Middle").
RINOs and Leftist Dems (like Dick Lamm) "reaching across the aisle" to make us the most extremely pro-abortion state in the US.
Denver represented in Congress by leftist Patsy Schroeder who ran the House Armed Services Committee yet still couldn't say the word "Nuclear" (Nukeelar) .
Boulder:
"The Hill riots" in 1971 - I think they called out the National Guard?
CURB = Citizens United to Restore Boulder. All 4 City Council candidates on their slate lost to liberals in 1970. But just a few years later, Tim Fuller and Penfield Tate were recalled due to their spearheading a gay rights ordinance. (Turned up the heat too quickly on the frog in the pan).
The ZPG = Zero Population Growth law for the City of Boulder, along with the statewide vote to ban the planned Denver Olympics, both sprang from the same utterly selfish motive of: "Now that I have just at this moment arrived here and bought a home, it's an absolute imperative that we preserve this wonderful [city|state] by passing laws to keep anyone else from moving here, starting now!
Mountains:
The Strawberry Lake Peace & Light & Whatever Festival, near Granby.
"Hippies vs Cowboys" meme.
Hippies settling down in former ghost towns, squatting in abandoned mine shacks.
Ski areas where you heard "WATCH OUT BELOW!!" yelled several times a day, when some doofus getting off the lift far above you didn't take care to fasten the ski binding's "safety strap" around their ankle before setting the ski down flat and pointed downhill, resulting in a heavy, pointy-tipped "runaway ski" rocketing your way at 40 mph.
(CCM-VRWC, FHS Class of 72, BA and MS at CU)
“Hippies settling down in former ghost towns, squatting in abandoned mine shacks. “
Ward?