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  • Colorado 14-ers – Mt. Bierstadt & Mt. Blue Sky

    Saturday, July 18, 2026 We knew this was going to be a hard day. It started with getting up at 3:15am. Since we stayed in Georgetown, the drive to the trailhead at the Guanella Pass was about 30 minutes. We went straight to the upper parking lot, not even looking to see if we could…

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  • Colorado 13-ers: Father Dyer Peak- Crystal Peak -Peak 10

    Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Background: John and I are planning to hike as many of the 14,000 foot mountains in Colorado as we feel comfortable doing, knowing that we probably won’t be hiking Little Bear Peak, Pyramid Peak, and Capitol Peak – each of them class 4 – based on beta gleaned from books, blogs,…

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  • Colorado 14-ers – Grays Peak & Torreys Peak-

    Monday, July 13, 2026 John and I had read enough about the road conditions up to the Grays Peak Trailhead that we knew would be parking in the lower lot and walking the 3 miles up the 4×4 road. We woke up at 3:45am, and were out the door by 4:20, at the lower lot…

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  • DeCaLiBron – Colorado

    14,ooo-footers: Mt. Bross, Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Cameron, Mt. Democrat Saturday, July 11, 2026 John and I awoke at 4AM and were out of the condo by 4:30. From Breckenridge, the drive to the Kite Lake Trailhead for the DeCaLiBron hike is about 40 minutes. We had a full week to get acclimatized to the altitude…

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  • HHN 34

    Halloween Horror Nights 2025 John and I had a 2+ hour delay on our flight to Orlando for the last weekend of HHN34. It turned out that it was a staffing shortage at the control tower and not the remnants of Hurricane Melissa (how ironic if our trip had been ruined by a storm with…

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  • La Plata Peak – Colorado

    Northwest Ridge Tuesday, July 8, 2025 La Plata Peak is the fifth tallest mountain in Colorado and is located in the Sawatch Range, not too far from Mt. Elbert. The weather forecast was ideal: no chance of rain/thunderstorms; in fact, there were no clouds in the sky, and it was a bluebird day. I thought…

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