Climbing Longs Peak Colorado

On my 40th Birthday Party, I was surprised by the appearance of my out-of-town folks and brothers. I was even more surprised when they announced that we were leaving first thing in the morning to climb Longs Peak, which is a Colorado 14'er I had never climbed, but can see every day from my upstairs office. This borders Rocky Mountain National Park.

I have climbed a number of Colorado 14'ers - here's a snazzy picture of the Subaru Outback with the Colorado 14'ers Mountains in the background ... and on August 22nd, 1994, I summitted Mt. Rainier in Washington State. Longs Peak is the most popular 14'er in Colorado because of the easy road access from the Denver Metro area. However, it's consider a long 14'er since the trailhead is at 9,400' and it's 7.5 miles to the summit at 14,255' ... plus it's a bit of a (non-technical) scramble beyond the Keyhole. We left Sunday morning, July 14th, 2003 and returned the following evening.

We took a lotta pictures, so you can read, see, and hear about the whole saga here:



Kris, Alek, and Myke at the top of Longs Peak, Colorado - 14,255'

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P.S. While I've been on an African Safari, I've never climbed Mount Kilimanjaro which would be fun to do sometime. BTW, for you scientists out there, could I have used my home made manometer to measure the summit elevation ... and if so, how?!? ;-)


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