Feb 26th, 2017
(From Brainard lake Winter Trailhead)
Coldest I’ve been for quite some times. Violent wind blowing snow most of the way to Isabelle Lake.
Category Archives: Hiking
South Boulder Peak
Feb 20th, 2017
South Boulder Peak & Bear Peak near Boulder, Colorado
Quick drive and a very good work out. Great view of Longs Peak and the City of Boulder.
Power Station in Boulder, CO – Playing with my new telephoto 🙂
Devil’s Thumb.
Morrison Peak, Colorado
Feb 19th, 2017
The trailhead to Morrison Peak is only 35 minutes away from my place so it’s an easy way to go up and down 2000ft without taking too much time out of my day…
Denver downtown can be seen from up there.
Mt Evans & Chief Mountain
Chief Mountain on Saturday, Mt Evans Rd on Sunday. Hiked from Echo Lake to Summit Lake (one mile short)
“View” of Mt Evans from Chief Mountain…
Unknown dog
View from the summit of Chief Mountain
Mt Evans Rd
Mt Evans Rd – Last turn before summit lake is a bit snowy
Grays (left) & Torreys Peak (right) in the distance
Black Cloud Trail – Mt Elbert
Dec 30th 2016
Hiked (snowshoeing mostly) up to tree line along the black cloud trail. Was running late so had to turn around. Good workout though.
Chicago Lakes, Colorado
Hiked the Chicago Lakes trail from Echo Lake to summit lake. I intended to climb Mt Evans but the weather turned pretty quickly so decided to jog along the road under the snow back to Echo Lake…
Fun 19 mile loop
Mt Democrat, Oct 2016
Hiked to the top of Mt Democrat. I was planning to do Lincoln / Cameron / Bross as well but the cold wind was just too much. Good hike though.
Grays & Torreys Peak – Fall 2016
14,270 feet – 8.50 miles round trip. A fairly familiar hike for the morning. I’ve hiked these seven times I think but I just can’t get tired of the view from up there.
Part of the sky was overcast and the contrast was just fantastic.
The Altra Lone Peak 3.0 Mid did very well. I’m retiring the Lowa Renegade GTX for the snow season.
Oregon Coast Trail 2016
Back from my 400 mile hike along the coast of Oregon.  Started Sunday September 18th at 9am and finished two weeks later on October 2nd at 8am.
Oregon Coast Trail
Will be thru-hiking the Oregon Coast Trail starting September 18th. Hopefully completing the 425 miles under three weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Coast_Trail
Aspen Loop 2016
August 21st, 2016
Over the years I’ve met a few hikers who hike casually (or so it seems) 40-mile / day, every day for weeks at a time if not months. I’ve always wondered what that actually entails. What does it REALLY mean for your body, for your mind?
The original plan wasn’t to hike for 24 hours straight obviously – although come to think of it, it would have been a valid plan as well – but just to hike a 40-mile loop and be done by 9pm which was plenty enough. I even had a shortcut planned to save a few miles if needed.
Things didn’t quite go as planned though. Shortcut wasn’t really one because of all the route finding it triggered. Crossing the valley (felt like marshland really) at Snowmass creek / West Snowmass creek was a disaster. Trail around Haystack Mountain was nowhere to be found so I improvised an alternative route…at 11:30pm. Final mile count reaching the car at 4:30am? 47 miles and 12000ft elevation gain total.
The good:
• Fantastic scenery and definitely my favorite part of Colorado in that regard.
• Hiking with trail running shoes (Altra Superior 2.0) worked great. New pants (Arc’teryx Perimeter) seem like they could be worn for weeks at a time. I still have to wash / inspect them to see the damage since I did quite a bit of bush whacking along the way.
• Feet and legs did just fine in the context.
The bad:
• Tracing a route with Garmin tools gives a distance estimation about 15% too low. I should have seen that coming really.
• One source of trail information is not enough. Need to double check everything for this kind of exercise.
The ugly:
• Took a spill at mile 10 and fell on my side. Few ribs are not doing so hot.
Huron Peak, CO
Swiss Fondue & French Wine at +14000ft? Check! Great hike of Huron Peak on August 13th with Echostar for our yearly fondue…
Was at the summit in 2 hour 5 minutes. Doing pretty well these days…
Grays Peak, Colorado
Quick hike atop Grays Peak on August 6th 2016. Not the greatest weather but good workout 🙂
Castle Peak – Conundrum Peak
July 31st 2016
Nice climb of Castle Peak and Conundrum Peak. Went down Conundrum Peak on snow sliding towards the frozen lake; much faster than going back around. The Jeep did well on Pearl Pass.
Mt. Lindsey, July 2016
Mt. Lindsey – 14042ft – Northwest Ridge Trail
Camped on the trail (literaly) after a 2.5 hour bike ride to the trailhead plus about an hour hike. Woke up at 5am and reached the summit at 9:30am.
Mt Lindsey, June 2016
No summit.
Hike near Mt Lindsey. The access road being closed I had to bike to the trail-head for three hours before I could even start hiking. Made it to about 12000ft before I had to turn around.
Basically a good eight hour workout in the mountains 🙂
Grizzly Peak, Colorado
Short hike to the top of Grizzly Peak, Colorado in May 2016
Starting the hiking season slowly…
Byers Peak, Colorado
Short hike snowshoeing near Byers Peak. Two feet of fresh powder snow makes for a good workout.
Chicago Lakes, Mount Evans Wilderness
Short hike (snowshoeing) to the Chicago Lakes, Mount Evans Wilderness, Colorado
Mt Elbert – Nov 2015
11.3 miles – 11:45 total time – 5732ft ascent
Not the best weather. Coldest / strongest wind ever. After a few hours my water bottles were frozen…inside my backpack. Still better than staying around Denver for Black Friday…