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Pikes Peak Climber's Log

wannabepeakbagger - Oct 27, 2019 4:23 pm Date Climbed: Oct 26, 2019

Crags trail

Snowed about a foot or two a few days beforehand and I was apparently the one to break trail. Lost the trail a couple times on the way up. Moderate amount of post-holing to get to the toll road. Never could find the trail after that, so lots of post-holing again. Post-holing while doing the rock scramble was particularly unpleasant. Made the top as the throngs of cars began to arrive for the day. Thankfully, I was able to hitch a ride down to where the trail first intersects the road and eliminate some brutal down-hiking.

Tracy - Aug 18, 2019 2:18 am Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2019

Discovered that the original true highpoint of this peak has been removed.

While my wife visited the summit visitor's building/tourist shop with me, she wasn't game to visit the actual highest point with me since that point was in the middle of an active construction zone. In my discussion with one of the vendors who works on that mountain, I was told that when construction is finished in a year or so, everything including the summit benchmark will be put back in it's original condition. Yeah right!!!

cascadescrambler - Jul 27, 2019 12:24 pm Date Climbed: Aug 31, 1962

Long day

Left Manitou at dawn, summited mid afternoon, hitch-hiked down. A lot of work for a 'hiker's peak.'

BKiser90 - Jul 11, 2019 11:09 am Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2019

Barr Trail

We started hiking at 5:10 a.m. and summited at 11:10 a.m. Beautiful day with few clouds in the sky. Luckily for us, we have some friends in Colorado Springs that wanted to drive to the top. Got a nice ride down. Saw maybe 10 people tops on the Barr Trail and most near the top.

eli.boardman - Dec 27, 2018 11:51 am Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2016

Crags route

Last 14er in the Front Range, crowded summit

jallen21750 - Dec 23, 2018 5:56 am Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2018

Pikes Peak via Barr Trail

Beautiful hike!

chaselanphear - Sep 26, 2018 7:47 pm Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2016

Pike's Peak

First 14'er

Wisemtn - Aug 20, 2018 7:41 pm Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2018

Pikes Peak Marathon

Pikes Peak Marathon

TacitMoose - Jul 1, 2018 11:31 pm

Barr Trail

Up the Barr Trail out of Manitou. Took two days as I wasn’t in great shape.

Boorman - Apr 15, 2018 7:24 am Date Climbed: Apr 14, 2018

NW Slopes

Climbed up from NW Slopes starting at Crags Campground. Good route, tiring but not extra challenging.

mh5717 - Mar 24, 2018 10:44 pm Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2012

Via Barr trail

First fourteener. Manitou via Barr trail, it was a nice day.

Wheelbarrow - Feb 5, 2018 11:46 pm Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2017

#24

via Barr Trail. One of the nicest graded trails I've had the pleasure of being on. It was quite the culture shock seeing all the fat people on top complaining about the lack of starbucks on the top or whatever the equivalent is.

T. White - Nov 9, 2017 1:32 am Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2010

My first 14er

Took the railway up... extremely windy at the top! Beautiful blue skies around noon (though views were hazy), but even with the cool weather and fall colors, a huge thunderstorm built over the mountain and ended up covering the state all the way to the Kansas border.

Jurgen - Aug 8, 2017 4:25 am Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2017

Pikes Peak by Bike

We rented road bikes to ascent Pikes Peak. Our first time on road bikes, which was a really cool challenge. Crazy to ascent such a high mountain by road bike.