Day 0, Saturday Aug 13, 2022. SamSam picked me up in Denver and we rolled out on 70 westbound. A couple stops were had, at the City Market in Grand Junction to get some last minute goodies, and an impromptu pre-dinner stop at McDs for the advertised chocolate pretzel Mcflurrys. We rolled into a campsiteContinue reading “Weminuche High Route, or an attempt”
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San Juan Splendor- Late summer in Colorado’s Southwest Mountains
Friday, September 24, 2021Post-PCT I was in communication with my buddy Whistler who I had met in 2017 when I first tried to hike the PCT. He finished the PCT that year choosing to flip to the Canada border and hike south while I opted to do some other mountain stuff that summer after weContinue reading “San Juan Splendor- Late summer in Colorado’s Southwest Mountains”
The Four Great Traverses of the Colorado 14ers: Part 2, the Wilsons and El Diente
This is part of a series of blog posts from attempting the 4 great Traverses of the Colorado 14ers. Our trip occurred in August of 2018 but I wrote them in April 2021, so some details are fuzzy. INTERMISSION from the traverses: Climb of Mt. Sneffels Whistler and I headed South to the San JuansContinue reading “The Four Great Traverses of the Colorado 14ers: Part 2, the Wilsons and El Diente”
Samuel D. Parks 