Here’s Nick cutting into his wilderness food staple, the room temperature plastic-wrapped sausage. He can’t walk more than 2 miles on dirt or rock without eating it. We were on our way up to Storm Pass from the Longs Peak trailhead in Rocky Mountain National Park on Saturday morning.
Here’s Nick doing a little scrambling near the top of Estes Cone (11,006 feet). Just to his right, off in the distance, is Longs Peak.
The view from the top of Estes Cone. From left, Aaron, Krista, Emily and Nick. The left peak is Mt. Meeker and the right one is Longs.
This tree and I really hit it off.
We did a car shuttle so we could start at the Longs Peak trailhead and end at the Glacier Gorge trailhead, hiking over Storm Pass. Here’s a view from the west side of the pass. The middle peak is Hallett Peak.
On Sunday, we did some toprope climbing at a crag next to Mary’s Lake. Here’s Krista climbing an alleged 5.8 route while Nick and Aaron act like they know what they’re talking about and I belay her.
Of course, before we got much climbing on, we got soaked by a pre-1 o’clock storm. Seems to be a trend for me this summer. Still, we had a ton of fun.
