We fled Denver’s traffic and chaos after work on Thursday and drove through snow flakes in the mountains in search of some place warm and relaxing. Seven hours later and 13 miles of barely-marked dirt roads we illuminated Cheryl’s tent with the highbeams. Perfect, it’s 10:45 at night and we found the middle-no-where we had [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Dark Canyon Utah
Posted in backpacking, tagged backpacking, canyons, hiking on April 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Mount Falcon Park
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With gusts up to 60 mph forecasted for the high country, Helen and I decided to visit another one of the Jefferson County Open Space parks. Mount Falcon Park was right next to Red Rocks and Mount Morrison where we’d hiked a few weeks ago. It was a warm and sunny day with plenty of [...]
Mount Whitney climbed!
Posted in hiking, tagged backpacking, climbing, hiking, state highpoints on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Helen and I climbed Mount Whitney on Thursday, April 17th. That completes all the 48 contiguous state high points for me. More photos and a detailed report will come later. In the meantime, here’s a handful of photos. At Bighorn Meadow, on the way to Mount Whitney: Mirror Lake, just above Bighorn Meadow: Nearing Trail [...]
Mount Silverheels
Posted in hiking, tagged Colorado Mountain Club, hiking on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two weeks ago I attempted to reach Mount Silverheels from Hoosier Pass and the continental divide. That hike ended when I encountered whiteout conditions on Hoosier Ridge. I noticed that the Colorado Mountain Club had a scheduled hike up Silverheels and Helen was planning to ski at Vail on their closing day. I made some [...]
Radical Reels filmfest
Posted in film, tagged films on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday night I attended the Radical Reels film festival at the American Mountaineering Center in Golden. Radical Reels is an off-shoot of the Banff Film Festival that consists of extreme sports films. I wasn’t able to attend the regular Banff Film Festival in either Colorado and Indiana this year, but this would be the [...]
Evergreen Mnt and Three Sisters
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Helen and I slept in then headed for Alderfer/Three Sisters Park near Evergreen, Colorado. We started out in the ponderosa forest at the base of Evergreen Mountain (8,536 feet) on the East Evergreen Mountain trail. Before long we hit snow patches then constant snow as we neared the summit trail where we had lunch in [...]
Centennial Cone Park
Posted in hiking, tagged hiking on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The pack (Helen, Torrey and I) was augmented by Cheryl, our mutual friend from Utah who was in town for the weekend. We picked her up in Golden, then drove west up Clear Creek Canyon to Centennial Cone Park. The trailhead was cold and windy, but the clouds mostly cleared off as we started hiking [...]
Marshall Mesa
Posted in hiking, tagged Colorado Mountain Club, hiking on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Having just joined the Colorado Mountain Club I was excited to attend my first hike with the group. The closest after-work hike was up in Boulder, about a 45 minute drive from Denver. An extra bonus was stopping in at Neptune Mountaineering, right next to the CMC Boulder office and the most complete mountaineering shop [...]
