Hiking to Loch Vale
Loch Vale, also known as The Loch is a perfect snapshot of why Rocky Mountain National Park is a National Park. A relatively…
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Mount Shavano and Tabeguache Peak
Mount Shavano and Tabeguache Peak make number 27 and 28 on the 14er list. Another last-minute hare-brained idea to make use of a…
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Camping at Winfield Ghost Town
My last-minute decision to climb Huron Peak meant that I’d be overnighting at the start of the trailhead in the Winfield Ghost Town…
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Climbing Huron Peak
Huron Peak rounds out the Collegiate Peaks for me, a subset of the gorgeous Sawatch Range in the Rockies. One more 14er crossed…
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Glacier Gorge to Black Lake
Another Sunday to play in the Park – this time it’s Glacier Gorge up to Black Lake. This is the hike we were…
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Hiking Lily Mountain
Lily Mountain makes a good also-ran, when you get a too-late start into the Park and can’t get a decent parking spot in…
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Forest Canyon Overlook
A damp, drizzly day at home at 7,300 feet – so we headed into the Park to hike up to the Forest Canyon…
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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…
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Backpack into Horn Fork Basin
If 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,…
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Climbing Mount Princeton
Mount Princeton has to be the single most boring 14er I’ve done to date. A nice thing about driving in on Thursday night…
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Climbing Mount Yale
Mount Yale makes number 22 checked off the 14er list. I was going to hit some peaks south of here, but a late…
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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument probably isn’t on your list unless you’re a hardcore fossil nut. I had seen the name in our…
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Panorama Point Nebraska
Panorama Point – the Nebraska High Point checked off the list. 15 down, 36 to go if you count DC. 5,424 feet seems…
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Pawnee National Grassland
Pawnee National Grassland was a bit of a surprise for us. "Let’s camp here" – said nobody looking at flat horizons full of…
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Lovers Leap via Wagon Wheel Trail
Let’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…
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Black Elk Peak
Black Elk Peak – the South Dakota high point at 7.244 feet, one more high point checked off the list. We’ve done a…
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Custer State Park
Custer State Park was the central point for our Wyoming/South Dakota trip, since my personal big rock was climbing Black Elk Peak which…
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Wild Bill Bar
I had visuals of Deadwood, South Dakota being full of historic Wild Wild West, but the Wild Bill Bar was the only thing…
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Spearfish South Dakota
Spearfish South Dakota was nowhere on our radar. And despite being an amazing chunk of canyon with towering sandstone walls, pines, and small…
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Belle Fourche South Dakota
Belle Fourche is the geographic center of the entire United States. We thought we were done with geographic centers when we visited Lebanon…
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Devils Tower National Monument
Devils Tower National Monument has been on my must-do list since I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind as a kid. The…
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