Distance: 9.38 miles (out and back) Elevation Gain: 4,314 ft. (total) 4,114 ft (net) Max Elevation: 14,209 ft. Min. Elevation: 10,095 ft. Winter is coming. And unlike Game of Thrones, it is actually approaching rather quickly, more so, in fact, than we would like. Having an extra day off this past Labor Day weekend, we planned one of our final summer ascents
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Bike Down Pikes Peak: A Photo Essay
To celebrate Will’s birthday, we ventured down to Colorado Springs last weekend to enjoy an exhilarating ride down Pikes Peak, a 14,000 foot monster of a mountain and Colorado icon. It was a fabulous day, full of speed, concentration and adrenaline. A leisurely ride up in the van with Bike Pikes Peak Tours granted us pain free
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Interview with Terry Grosz
Interview with Terry Grosz Written by Thomas Checkley Terry Grosz is an award winning writer of 15 books and a legendary game warden. How we met and I ended up sitting on his porch interviewing him is a story unto itself. Last year I was in Bass Pro Shop here in Denver, Colorado, getting a headlamp
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Mills Lake and Black Lake: RMNP
Distance: 10.6 miles (out and back and exploration) Elevation Gain: 2,367 ft (total gain) Max Elevation: 11,007 ft Min. Elevation: 9,224 ft The map on the left is our route from TH to Black Lake. The map on the right shows our route past Black Lake and displays relative locations of Green Lake and Frozen Lake with respect to the waterfall and
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