Pike's Peak

Donuts on Pike's Peak
Originally uploaded by SethTri

After spending a day in Boulder, we had a few days before we were supposed to head over to Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). So, we went down to Colorado Springs and knocked off Pike's Peak (14,115 ft). It was Meg's first time hiking up to 14,000+ ft. Pike's Peak is a very popular, fairly easy fourteener, so it was a good confidence booster before we hit up the more challenging Long's Peak later this week.

We already had plans to meet up with our buddy Stephen at 5pm in Boulder on Saturday, so we started our ascent of Pike's Peak at 6am. The plan was summit by 12:30, pick up the 12:40 train down so we can hit the road by 2:30 and be up in Boulder by 4:30pm. The plan worked, but the timeframe required pushing the pace a bit. It wasn't terribly fast, but it was definitely higher than a comfortable pace.

The weather was very good until the very end. The last 5-10 minutes we had a few flurries and a little cloud-to-cloud lightning but generally sunny skies through the hike. Meg got her donut at the top.




I should add the previous afternoon, we hiked a bit in the Garden of the God's. It's a beautiful place, and I played around with the camera on different settings. You can see all of our photos from there, here.