| Plan B: Mt. Warren & Rogers Peak Trip Report |
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| Plan B: Mt. Warren & Rogers Peak   | 
| Page Type: Trip Report Location: Colorado, United States, North America Date Climbed/Hiked: Aug 15, 2010 | Page By: Alana Created/Edited: Aug 27, 2010 / Aug 27, 2010 Object ID: 654517 Hits: 437 Loading... Page Score: 86.53% - 3 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
I wanted to hit up another fourteener after my great success on Mt. Evans, so I'd fixated on Mt. Sherman in the Mosquito Range near Leadville for my Sunday trip this week.
It’s an easy one conveniently located near a couple of other mountains, and I thought that if I was feeling up for it, I could bag Sheridan and even Peerless on my way down. However, the Saturday night before my big trip, I only got maybe three-and-a-half hours of sleep and I’d managed to mess my knee up again while I was running around the previous day, so dogged with pain and exhaustion, I set my sights quite a bit lower on a couple of mountains east of Summit Lake.
Mt. Warren and Rogers Peak are two low thirteeners in the Front Range; people usually don’t even notice them on the right when they’re driving to Evans.
It’s 3.5 miles and only 557 vertical feet and should take a normal person a couple hours to do, but it took me four, what with my habit of meandering in long zig zags back and forth across the trail.
I'm certainly not the kind of person who appreciates scenic overlooks, but from the side of Warren, the mountains looked like the ocean during a storm. |
This was definitely a more solitary hike than Evans – I didn’t see a soul after I left Summit Lake, although the cars passing below on Mt. Evans Road didn't let me forget where I was. The only encounter I had with another living being was when I screamed at a mountain goat for surprising me by being on the rock I was climbing when I got to the top; I don't know if they're aggressive, but they're actually quite bulky when you get up close to them, and definitely not something you want to see unexpectedly when you've got your back to a drop.
There’s a reason why people tend to overlook Warren and Rogers in favor of Evans - they truly are hardly there. I passed over a little rocky bump in the terrain with scarcely a second glance, and only later on after I’d gotten home and was comparing my pictures to some I found on SummitPost did I realize that – oops – I’d summitted Mt. Warren and hadn’t even realized it. I actually thought that Rogers Peak was Mt. Warren when I reached it, and I had been disappointed in myself for only getting in one mountain.
The summit of Rogers Peak, not Mt. Warren |
I aggravated my knee again sliding down the side of Rogers on the loose gravel slope, so when I got down to the road, I hitch-hiked back to Summit Lake. Thanks for the ride, Ken! Hope Dylan's paw is feeling better!
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Rogers Peak
