Mount Evans, Colorado |
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The route from Summit Lake to the summit of Evans |
Ellen Wendling resting on the side of Evans |
Ellen nearing the parking lot atop Evans |
Ellen refusing to move from a rock next to the parking lot on top of Evans |
Rich on the summit of Evans |
Rich and Ellen Wendling at the summit of Evans |
A bighorn sheep we met on the way down from Evans |
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| Since my wife Ellen and I had so much fun in June
hiking Deer Mountain, a couple of days after I hiked Mount Massive, she
and I decided to climb Mount Evans. I chose Evans because it is known as
the easiest ascent of a 14er in Colorado. I was hoping that if she had
enough fun, she might want to climb more. She had enough, all right...
We parked at the shelter at Summit Lake, at 12,840 feet. After hiking a little bit south along Mount Evans Road, we headed straight up the east slope of Evans. I thought it was pretty easy. Ellen didn't. I had been working out daily for some time, training for my track season, but she hadn't been working out at all. When we got to the summit, she swore she would never climb another mountain again as long as she lived (a promise she has kept so far...). We debated my hiking down, getting the car, and driving to the top to pick her up, but she didn't want to sit all by herself on the top of a mountain waiting for me, so we hiked down by the easiest route I could find - more or less following the road. (Ellen's reallynot a wimp...she's just not into walking up the sides of mountains.) |
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