Harvard Columbia Traverse
The *in*famous Harvard Columbia Traverse. First you climb to 14,420 feet on Mount Harvard (3rd highest in Colorado, 4th highest in the continental…
Read MoreThe *in*famous Harvard Columbia Traverse. First you climb to 14,420 feet on Mount Harvard (3rd highest in Colorado, 4th highest in the continental…
Read MoreIf you’re climbing Mount Harvard and/or Mount Columbia, Horn Fork Basin is a perfect launching pad. Located directly beneath both 14,000 foot peaks,…
Read MoreMount Princeton has to be the single most boring 14er I’ve done to date. A nice thing about driving in on Thursday night…
Read MoreMount Yale makes number 22 checked off the 14er list. I was going to hit some peaks south of here, but a late…
Read MorePawnee National Grassland was a bit of a surprise for us. "Let’s camp here" – said nobody looking at flat horizons full of…
Read MorePanorama Point – the Nebraska High Point checked off the list. 15 down, 36 to go if you count DC. 5,424 feet seems…
Read MoreAgate Fossil Beds National Monument probably isn’t on your list unless you’re a hardcore fossil nut. I had seen the name in our…
Read MoreLet’s go do an exposed hike when the forecast is over 100 degrees – said nobody ever… Except Colette. In my best caveman-must-please-little-woman…
Read MoreWind Cave National Park is one of those things like Devil’s Tower that’s just sat on our must-do list for many years. As…
Read MoreBlack Elk Peak – the South Dakota high point at 7.244 feet, one more high point checked off the list. We’ve done a…
Read MoreA Daily Dose night shot from Devil’s Tower Wyoming, watching a pair of climbers come down the south face in the dark. Note…
Read MoreCuster State Park was the central point for our Wyoming/South Dakota trip, since my personal big rock was climbing Black Elk Peak which…
Read MoreSpearfish South Dakota was nowhere on our radar. And despite being an amazing chunk of canyon with towering sandstone walls, pines, and small…
Read MoreI had visuals of Deadwood, South Dakota being full of historic Wild Wild West, but the Wild Bill Bar was the only thing…
Read MoreBelle Fourche is the geographic center of the entire United States. We thought we were done with geographic centers when we visited Lebanon…
Read MoreDevils Tower National Monument has been on my must-do list since I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind as a kid. The…
Read MoreAfter our two days at Pawnee Lake, we headed down to Crater and Mirror Lake on our outbound leg. But not too quickly…
Read MoreSo many photos to work on from our Indian Peaks backpacking trip, I had to settle on something easy to get the ball…
Read MoreDays 2 and 3 of our Indian Peaks trip – Pawnee Lake. After our hike over Pawnee Pass, it’s nice to have 2…
Read MorePawnee Pass Trail – Day One of our Indian Peaks Trip. It’s always best to have the hardest day of your backpacking trip…
Read MoreSince we look out at Storm Mountain every single day, it seemed like a nice hike to do with Shelby and Tom before…
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