Colorado 14ers List

1.  Mount Elbert 14,433
2.  La Plata Peak 14,336
3.  Mount Lincoln 14,286
4.  Grays Peak  14,270
5.  Torreys Peak 14,267
6.  Longs Peak 14,255
7.  Crestone Needle 14,197
8.  Mount Bross 14,172
9.  Mount Democrat 14,148
10.  Pikes Peak 14,115
11.  Humboldt Peak 14,064
12.  Mount Sherman 14,036
13.  Mount of the Holy Cross 14,005
14.  Mount Shavano 14,229
15.  Mount Princeton 15,197
16.  Mount Belford 14,197
17.  Tabeguache Peak 14,255
18.  Mount Oxford 14,153
19.  Kit Carson 14,165
20.  Mount Yale 14,196
21.  Mount Antero 14,269
22.  Mount Sneffels 14,150
23.  Mount Columbia 14,073
24.  Mount Harvard 14,420
25.  Mount Cameron 14,238
26.  Quandary Peak
27.  Mount Huron
28.  Mount Massive
29.  North Maroon Peak
30.  Maroon Peak
31.  Mount Blanca
32.  Ellingwood Point
33.  Missouri Mountain
34.  Castle
35.  Conundrum
36.  Snowmass Mountain
37.  Wilson Peak
38.  Sunshine
39.  Handies
40.  Capitol
41.  Pyramid
42.  Uncompagre
43.  Red Cloud
44.  Wetterhorn
45.  San Luis
46.  Mt. Bierstadt

Front Range
-Grays
-Torreys
-Longs
-Pikes Peak
-Bierstadt

To do:
-Evans

Tenmile Range
-Quandary

Mosquito Range
-Lincoln
-Bross
-Democrat
-Mt. Sherman
-Cameron

Sawatch Range
-Elbert
-La Plata
-Mt. Antero
-Shavano
-Belford
-Princeton
-Yale
-Tabeguache
-Oxford
-Columbia
-Holy Cross
-Harvard
-Huron
-Massive
-Missouri

Elk Mountains
-Maroon
-North Maroon
-Castle
-Snowmass

-Conundrum

-Capitol
-Pyramid

San Juan Mountains
-Mount Sneffels
-Wilson Peak
-Uncompahgre
-Redcloud Peak
-Wetterhorn Peak
-San Luis Peak
-Sunshine Peak
-Handies Peak

To do:
-El  Diente Peak
-Mount Wilson
-Mt. Eolus
-Sunlight
-Windom

Sangre de Cristo Range
-Crestone Needle
-Kit Carson Peak
-Humboldt Peak
-Blanca Peak
-Ellingwood Point

To do:
-Crestone Peak
-Culebra Peak
-Mt. Lindsey
-Little Bear Point

A Tall Mountain with a Side of Mildewy Cliff Jumpers

Halloween in Spirit Springs

We were fortunate to have my sis, bro-in-law, and niece visit on for three days as a stop on their way moving out east.  During their stay they got to experience our best holiday and see the coffin races, go on a very non-scary haunted historical tour, visit the zoo, drive up a 14er, and even do a little trick-or-treating.  Sadie did so great.  She'd get candy from someone in town and always say thank-you.  Very impressive for a gal less then two years old.  

The St. Paulie "girls" at the coffin races

The dead rock stars: Jimi, Janis, Jim, Kurt, and Amy

Some of the ghosts we met on our haunted historical tour through town

Feeding my favorite African animal at the zoo

Meerkats!

Bird budgies

Taking the chairlift to the top of the zoo

Sadie bagged her first 14er

Having fun at the Penny Arcade

Sadie's favorite game

Classic trick or treating in our hippie town

Happy Halloween!

Mt. Sherman, Royal Flush, and a Double Rainbow...all they way!

We drove to Leadville this weekend to knock out another fourteener with our friends Joe and Stephanie. Stephanie is getting into flower identification, and I love taking photos of them, so we both had a lovely time enjoying all of the wild flowers.  Mt. Sherman was quite chill and we saw various children on our way up and down the mountain.  Even though we started later in the morning than normally for a fourteener, we were back in town for lunch.  We ate at an Italian restaurant with an amazing pesto pasta and cute bathrooms that had language learning CD going on in the background.

We drove on with them to the Vail Valley and on Sunday, Stephanie, Darren and I climbed 20 very short pitches up a route called Royal Flush near Silverthorne

We found wild berries mid-climb

At the summit with Lake Dillon in the background

After descending, we browsed an art fair and ate at the wonderful Sunshine Cafe in Silverthorne where Stephanie and Joe had bought their wedding cake. 

On our way home we saw the best rainbow I've ever seen...and it was a double rainbow!  People were stopping all over the place to take photos.  It was that good.

Batizado, Four Fourteeners, and a Bunch of Burros

Joy was once again drove down to support my capoeira, but this time for my second batizado.  We hung out in the park until they started the ceremony and I'm sure she and Darren both know all the songs and some of the moves now after spending so many hours us get our new cords.  In order to get a new one, everyone has to play a mestre or someone with a higher ranking and the mestre or whoever it is has to knock the cord-getter to the ground.  I was the first in my group, and, not to brag, but I think I did a pretty good job staying upright for quite a while.

Anyhoo, the next day we knocked down four fourteeners: Mt. Democrat, Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Cameron, and Mt. Bross.  AND it was beautiful.  The meadows had the best collection of wildflowers I've seen all summer.

On our way back home, we passed some donkey and outhouse races.  Only in Colorado!