One of my goals for the summer is to hike a bunch of 14,000-foot mountains ("fourteeners"). I hiked Handies Peak with Kyle and Allison, but that's a mountain I had already hiked countless times before. Today I ventured out to bag a new peak--San Luis Peak.
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| Sunrise over Cebolla Creek on my way to San Luis Peak |
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| I startled a moose on top of Los Pinos Pass; she ran in front of my car for at least one hundred yards before she broke for the woods. |
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| Check out her high-speed tracks |
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| A ptarmigan or grouse strutting across the road |
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| Can you find the grouse/ptarmigan in this picture? |
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| View from the trailhead |
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| Snowshoe hare |
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| Snowshoe hare with a long piece of grass hanging out of his mouth |
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| Columbine |
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| The peak is now in view (it is barely showing above the ridge) |
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| Looking back down the valley (and Stewart Creek) toward the trailhead |
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| View from the peak |
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| Trail cutting across a scree field |
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| The aptly named "Big Meadow" |
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