With a forecast for high winds and possibly unstable weather, I decided to spend Sunday hiking some lower elevation peaks. I ended up with an hour and a half drive to my two planned peaks and wondering if I’d spend more time driving than hiking today. At least I had some decent views for the [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Thunder Butte and Sheeps Nose
Posted in hiking on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Badger Mountain
Posted in climbing, hiking, tagged Badger Mountain, hiking, Tener Gulch, Wilkerson Pass on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pete and I met up for another Saturday adventure, this time we’d visit the Puma Hills near Hartsel. We weren’t sure that the weather would hold, so we decided to attempt the only technical peak on our agenda first. The unnamed peak of 10,100 feet (Gerry Roach’s 10,093) shone in the morning light as we [...]
The Palisade
Posted in climbing, tagged climbing, Gateway, The Palisade on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Indian Creek Pete, Ryan and I headed east back into Colorado and through the Dolores River canyon to Gateway, Colorado. As we approached town from the south we could see the huge mesa known as The Palisade, our final goal for the weekend. After picking up a dirt road just north of the Dolores [...]
South Six-Shooter Peak
Posted in climbing, tagged climbing, Indian Creek, Newspaper Rock, South Six-Shooter Peak on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leaving Moab we drove on to Indian Creek, passing below the seemingly endless number of splitter cracks lining the road and spotting lots of climbers finishing climbs. About 14 miles past Newspaper Rock we made the left turn onto Davis Canyon Road and passed through the gate. The road quickly became rugged and Pete hopped [...]
Elephant Butte
Posted in climbing, tagged Arches National Park, canyoneering, climbing, Elephant Butte, rappelling on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A day of rain began to morph into snow as Ryan and I drove up I-70 to pick up Pete. By Evergreen we were stopped to knock off the accumulated snow and slush from my car and began the creep up to the Eisenhower tunnel. Traffic signs alerted us that the interstate was closed ahead [...]
Gray Wolf Mountain
Posted in hiking, tagged Gray Wolf Mountain, Guanella Pass on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several months had passed since Helen and I had hiked together and a late day cancellation of my Sunday plans put us together for an Easter egg hunt near Guanella Pass. We parked at the winter road closure well shy of the pass and proceeded to hike up the road. Snowshoes went on as we [...]
Colony Baldy
Posted in hiking, tagged Colony Baldy, Horn Creek Trailhead, Rainbow Trail, Sangre de Cristos on April 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pete and I drove down to the Horn Creek trailhead in the Sangre de Cristo mountains on Friday. Clouds were moving in but we caught a view of tomorrow’s objective, Colony Baldy – a 13,705 foot peak just north of some famous 14,000 foot peaks. Kevin joined us just before we turned in with a [...]
Dinosaur Ridge
Posted in hiking, tagged Dakota Trail, Dinosaur Ridge, Matthews/Winters Park, Zorro Trail on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For a post work hike I headed to the nearby Matthews/Winters Park, part of the Jefferson County Open Space parks. I parked off the closed Alameda Pkwy on Dinosaur Ridge and walked the road up to see the dinosaur foot prints. Further up the road were ripplemarks in the stone which photographed better with the [...]
Baldy Peak
Posted in hiking, tagged Baldy Peak on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a day of going no further outside than my mailbox I was anxious to get outside and see what the most recent storms had brought. Pete and I made our way to the hamlet of Pine where we parked in town and hiked on roads only open to local residents’ vehicles. Eventually we we [...]
