It is worth getting up at 3:30 am for this!

Why don't you come along?
This is the hiker view from the trail in the very beginning of the 10 mile hike. Pat and I did our first 14'ers of the season, Bierstadt and Evans. It was the most physically and mentally challenging summits I have accomplished so far! Here are pics of the way to the top of Bierstadt...at this point I could not breath, my heart was racing, and was scared to death of what was ahead of me.




This was the part I was fearing. To the right here is "the Sawtooth". You have to hike just below the zig-zagging ridge to get to Mt. Evans. There is a narrow trail on the left wall that you can see to the left of "the Sawtooth (the wall that is in the shadow). I started to cry and was shaking. Pat informed me that there was no turning back...from there on I was telling myself 'breathing in strength and breathing out fear' for the rest of the hike.