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80 percent of Denver public school kids have never been to...

It's the kind of stat that seems impossible, yet it's one that Todd Hartman at the Colorado Department of Natural Resources says he hears all the time — though they may very well be able to see them from their classroom window, 80 percent of Denver Public School students have never actually been to the mountains.