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Long’s Peak: On Top of the Summit

These are the photos I took while on the summit of Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. All of the other photos I've posted before now were taken on the way up. In the photo of me the marker under my foot reads 14,255 feet above sea level.

I stayed on the summit for a while and had a short but deeply fulfilling meditation while there. It was a feeling of pure elation with every breath.

My ecstasy was tempered with a mild terror in knowing I would once again have to navigate the same cliffs and ledges I came up on...

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Long’s Peak: From the Key Hole to the Gulley

This set of photos is from the Keyhole, up the gulley and around the East side of the peak. This was the final leg of my hike to the summit of Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. This was the most challenging part of the hike both going up and going down.

I faced many fears during this part and at one point I almost turned around. There were many places along this part of the hike where I was just one step away from going over the side of the mountain.

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Long’s Peak Hike: The Keyhole

This is the second set of photos from my hike to the summit of Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. This set was taken just before and just after the Keyhole. The Keyhole is quite large and it's no small feat to climb up to it.

Before the Keyhole it was a nice hike. After the Keyhole everything became serious: serious views, serious elevation change, and very serious danger. From the Keyhole onward you are literally one step away from falling over steep cliffs.

The views after the Keyhole are breathtaking. The trail is marked by paint spots on the boulders. You have to take care to aim for the next marker or you'll end up off the trail like I did a couple of times. That's partly because the trail is not really a trail. It's just a bunch of boulders and steep ledges you climb over and around.
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The fear factor steadily increased with every step after the Keyhole.

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Long’s Peak Summit Hike: Approaching Boulder Field

Here are some more photos from my hike to the summit of Long’s Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park last Friday. This set captures the approach to Boulder Field at 12,760 feet nearly 6 miles into the hike. As the name implies, Boulder Field is a massive field of giant size boulders. There is a base camp there so you can actually camp out and hike the summit the next morning instead of doing it all in one day as I did.

Here we get the first good shots of the face of Long’s Peak known as the Diamond. You can still see a good amount of snow and ice in some of the large crevasses. To the right of the second and third photos you can see the Keyhole. This is where you pass through to the trail on the back side of the peak. It looks deceptively small here. In my next post I’ll post some close ups of the Keyhole and you’ll see what I mean—it’s huge!

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Long’s Peak Hike: Before Boulder Field

Here are a few shots I took on my hike to Long’s Peak Summit. These photographs were taken before reaching the area known as Boulder Field, which, as the name implies is a massive field of huge boulders.

I was about 3 hours into the hike when these pictures were taken. Everywhere you turn your head there were massive mountain ranges and huge piles of rocks. By this time I was beginning to feel very small. I got smaller as the day progressed.

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Long’s Peak Sunrise

I hiked to the summit of Long’s Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park on Friday. I signed in at the trail head at 4:30 am. I was able to photograph the sunrise a little over two hours into the hike about 500 feet above the tree line.

It was a beautiful beginning of an incredible day that I will never forget. The entire hike took me 14 hours to complete. I’ll be posting photos of the hike in coming blogs.

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Long’s Peak Summit

I hiked to the summit of Long’s Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. It was an incredible experience…more than I can even put into words at the moment.  For now I’ll just say I am especially grateful to have made it back in one piece.

I’ve got lots of photos which I’ll post later. In the photo shown here I’m standing on the highest point with the US Geological Survey marker under my left foot reading 14,255 feet above sea level.

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Trail Ridge Road Bike Ride in Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park (Part 3/3)

This is the third set of photos on my ride up Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. There was road work just before the Alpine Visitor Center which is where I turned around. There was about a 20 minute wait for construction equipment on arrival and about 5 minutes on departure.

The ride down was quite dangerous at times as I picked up speed. The wind gusts made it challenging to keep control of the bike. . I had a couple of close calls but managed to keep it up on two wheels.

This was truly one of the greatest rides of my life. I am thankful for the opportunity, strength, stamina and will to complete the ride and for a safe return home.

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Trail Ridge Road Bike Ride in Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park (Part 2/3)

This is the second set of photos of my ride up Trail Ridge Road in Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. The total distance was just over 54 miles with nearly 5 hours of ride time.

This photo set starts just above the tree line around 11,000 feet. After leaving the Rainbow Curve vista, the wind picked up. Within a few miles above the tree line, the wind was absolutely brutal. It was a combination head-wind and side-wind. The temperature was around 45 degrees so it was cold too.

At the ranger station I was told the wind was blowing at 20-25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. There were several times when the wind nearly brought me to a stand-still. It required fierce concentration to remain steady and avoid blown off the road and over a cliff. As you can imagine, the wind made the climb extremely intense.

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Trail Ridge Road Bike Ride in Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park (Part 1/3)

Yesterday I rode my bicycle up Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a 50 mile ride round trip that took me up above 12,000 feet. That’s a 5,000 foot climb from where I started at the Este’s Park visitor center.

This is the first set of three sets of photos I will post. In this set I capture the climb up to the tree line which is around 11,000 feet. Some of the photos show the road I came up and the valley where I started. The scenery along Trail Ridge is extraordinary. It was quite cool but I was well prepared.

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