Shayne and I arrived at the American Basin trailhead at approx. 4pm. We were contemplating whether or not we should wait until the morning or go for it. The late start would mean that part of the decent would be in the dark, but given our luck with 14ers earlier in the week and the [...]
After a beautiful ride over Engineer Pass we arrived at Matterhorn Creek trailhead at 8:30pm on 7-17. The road was unusually quiet. We parked at the 4WD parking just below the access gate and set up camp. The next morning we got a little bit of a late start, we hit the trail at approx. [...]
We left Dolores, Co. for Ouray at about 2:00pm on July 23, 2001, stopping for some awesome pictures of Engineer and the Twilight peaks. Since we arrived in town a little late, we decided to forego a visit to the amphitheater and head straight up Camp Bird road. We passed the place where I was [...]
This trip was thrown together by Darren and I. We originally have about 10 people planning to go on this one, but about one month prior, we cut the list down to 6. Shayne, Jade, Ron, Troy, Darren and Myself were the only ones who took the invitation seriously. So we headed out to Salida [...]
This one was billed as the Democrat Convention. This year the group consisted of Steve, Wendy, Cody, Darren, Colby, Kristen, Doreen, Harry and myself. It was to be the reunion climb. We meet up with the group at the Super8 in Raton, NM. The next day we headed towards Fairplay, to set up camp. After [...]