Wheeler Peak, highest point in New Mexico |
Columbine flowers in Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado with Windom Peak in the background |
I have been hiking and skiing since I was old enough to walk, backpacking since I joined the Boy Scouts in Middle School, and working with search and rescue since my senior year in high school. Living in Los Alamos, which is surrounded on three sides by National Forests and a National Monument on the fourth, I found these activities came naturally (so to speak). I proudly wasted much of my youth backpacking and hiking in the Pecos Wilderness and the canyons of the Jemez Mountains.
Now that I have moved to Denver, I am in search of a closer paradise, being as how the Windsor Trailhead at Santa Fe Ski Basin is now a six hour commute. So far, Orli and I have enjoyed trekking through the canyons west of the Peaks to Peaks Highway west of Boulder, by Rollins Pass and South Boulder Creek.
Included here will be internet resources that I find helpful as well as some simple contributions of my own.
Colorado Fourteeners
The quest to climb all 54 14ers in Colorado (peaks above 14,000 feet in elevation) is one that appeals to many hikers. I have been slowly working towards this goal, and have done the following peaks:
Mount Shavano - July 1991
Mounts Oxford/Belford - late summer 1992 (not completed)
Crestone Needle - late summer 1993 (?)
Crestone Needle - 2 September 1995
Mount Antero - August 1997
Sunlight Peak - 15 August 1998 (missed summit block)
Windom Peak - 15 August 1998
Mount Eolus - 16 August 1998
Redcloud Peak - 14 August 1999
Sunshine Peak - 14 August 1999
Pikes Peak - 23 July 2000
Kit Carson Peak - August 2000 (not completed)
Grays Peak - 30 June 2001
Torreys Peak - 30 June 2001
Mount Bierstadt - 14 July 2001
Mount Harvard - 11 August 2001
Mount Columbia - 11 August 2001
Mount Elbert - 23 September 2001
Quandary Peak - 29 June 2003
Mount Evans - 20 July 2003
Mount Bierstadt (via Sawtooth) - 20 July 2003
Wetterhorn Peak - 9 August 2003
Mount Sherman - 16 August 2003
Grays/Torreys Peaks - 22 May 2004
Mount of the Holy Cross - 26 June 2004
Mount Lincoln - 25 July 2004
Mount Bross - 25 July 2004
Mount Democrat - 25 July 2004
Mount Evans (via Echo Lake) - 16 July 2005
Mount Bierstadt - 20 August 2005
Mount Evans (via Sawtooth) - 20 August 2005
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California Parks Information Colorado (And Other Places!) Fourteeners Colorado's FourteenersColorado Ski Country USA My Search and Rescue Page National Park Service Maps Some New Mexico Trails, courtesy Boy Scouts of America Penn State Outing Club Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) TopoZone |
Trail up Mount Eolus, Colorado |
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