I Climbed a Mountain [pics]

What's the stats on the mountain?

Really nice pics man.

What's the stats on the mountain?

Crestone Needle sits on the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and is 14,197 feet high. The standard route is a class 3, and the elevation gain and distance vary depending on where you begin hiking.

There is 2WD access to the mountain, however, there is a 5 mile jeep trail that begins where that ends. The jeep trail is supposedly one of the roughest in the state of Colorado, and it gets a little worse every year. There are big rocks, trees, pockets, mud and 3 creeks to cross. It took us almost 2 hours to drive up it, and it steadily gets worse all the way up. From the end of the jeep trail, the total elevation gain to the peak is about 3,300 feet, and the distance is about 9 miles round-trip.

I did some more hikes, and I thought I'd share the photos for those of you interested.

Greyrock Mountain - Poudre Canyon, Colorado (http://picasaweb.google.com/spam4adam/GreyrockMountain)

Kalalau Trail, Na Pali Coast - Kaua'i, Hawaii (http://picasaweb.google.com/spam4adam/Kalalau)

Quandary Peak - Arapaho National Forest, Colorado (http://picasaweb.google.com/spam4adam/QuandaryPeak)

Mt. Bierstadt - Arapaho National Forest, Colorado (http://picasaweb.google.com/spam4adam/MtBierstadt)

Amazing pictures!
The Hawaiian pictures are my favorites.

Man, I miss Colorado so much! Thanks for sharing the pics. I climbed Holy Cross, Longs,
Massive, Ida (not a 14er, but still), Elbert & Pikes Peak (3 times). Never took a single picture...seriously.

holy crap thats a lot of pictures. thanks for sharing.

but i challenge your best sunset ever with my everyday view ;)

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Man, I miss Colorado so much! Thanks for sharing the pics. I climbed Holy Cross, Longs,
Massive, Ida (not a 14er, but still), Elbert & Pikes Peak (3 times). Never took a single picture...seriously.

I've been wanting to do Holy Cross ... attempted Massive and Elbert, but the weather was bad for both.

Long's was a bitch.

Next is probably Blanca or Crestone Peak.

holy crap thats a lot of pictures. thanks for sharing.

but i challenge your best sunset ever with my everyday view ;)

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Nice. Is that in VA? Looks a little like Kiesler ... weren't you there for a bit?

Nice. Is that in VA? Looks a little like Kiesler ... weren't you there for a bit?

eglin afb, florida ;) and yeah, the best clouds in the world are right over biloxi MS/gulfport (which is where keesler's at)... i'm about 4 hours away and the weather is almost exactly the same here (100% humidity at 2am... hot dam!).

i wish they allowed me to take pictures at work though :/ like when we had a C-5 (HUGE plane) land missing it's front two wheels... (you gotta figure they had them when they took off). work just stopped so everyone could get right on the runway and watch the thing land/possibly explode at 300ft away. pilot's aced it though, and it just looked like a very normal short landing, but man, that would have been a crazy pic.