Nice. It looks like I share a bunch of connections with Hetzler - I'll try to connect. Thanks for that info!aholle88 wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 8:17 am Very cool Susan!! Awesome how even the clouds ended up being similar to Zeb’s trip! I have been meaning to do a similar thing with hiking up Pikes from Bear creek/old Jones park to the south ridge since that was how Katherine Bates did it way back. It’s awesome seeing the history of pikes and recreating some of those old routes. J Inness Hetzler has posted quite a bit of neat history of Pikes and the springs foothills mountains on the FB page over the years.
I've done Pikes nine times: 1x via this route (26-mile Zebulon Pike Bicentennial from near Cheyenne Mountain State Park); 1x via Barr Trail; 1x from Gillett on the old West Beaver Creek Trail; and 6x from the Crags. There are many more routes that I haven't tried yet, but maybe I'll get to them some day.
A few years back, Kevin Baker did a presentation for the CMC on about a dozen ways to climb the peak, including from the couloirs that start at Glen Cove (Little Italy, Railroad, Three Little Pigs). More recently, Stewart M. Green published a book, (Climbing Pikes Peak), with other routes to the summit that I haven't tried. It's been a few years since I've done the peak (or Rosa, for that matter) but I can see them both from where I'm sitting, and I know I'll have to get back up there again one of these days. Maybe when that new summit house opens...