Saturday & Sunday, July 28-29, 2012 On Saturday morning, Amanda and I took a leisurely drive over Kebler Pass to spend a nice and relaxed weekend in the Elk Mountains just outside of Crested Butte. On our way, I stopped a few times along Kebler Pass to take photos of the many aspen trees found [...]
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Paradise Divide
Posted: July 29, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, Mountaineering, PhotographingTags: 12ers, 2012, aspens, cinnamon mountain, clouds, colorado, crested butte, east beckwith mountain, elk mountains, ferns, gothic, gothic road, jeep, kebler pass, mine shaft, mount baldy, mount emmons, paonia, paradise basin, paradise divide, peak bagging, purple mountain, rainbow, red lady, reflection, ruby range, schofield pass, slate river, slate river road, slate river valley, summit, sunrise, sunset, tent, treasury mountain, yule pass
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Grays & Torreys Peaks
Posted: July 21, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, MountaineeringTags: 13ers, 14ers, 2012, alpenglow, argentine pass, boreas pass, camp, chihuahua gulch, clouds, colorado, continental divide, continental divide trail, fourteeners, front range, georgetown, grays peak, guanella pass, horseshoe basin, jeep, kelso mountain, lightning, mcclellan mountain, mount bierstadt, mount evans, peak bagging, peru creek, rain, ruby mountain, stevens gulch, storm, summit, sunrise, tent, the sawtooth, torreys peak, waldorf mine, waldorf road
Saturday, July 21, 2012 I left work at 11:00am on Friday, finished loading up the Jeep and made my way east on I-70 to the Front Range. One of my personal goals for the year was to hike to the top of three 14ers, so I decided to try and hike the Grays Peak and [...]
Uncompahgre Peak
Posted: June 30, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, MountaineeringTags: 14ers, 2012, big blue creek, butterfly, colorado, engineer pass, lake city, marmot, matterhorn creek, matterhorn peak, nellie creek, peak bagging, san juan mountains, smoke, summit, uncompahgre peak, uncompahgre wilderness, wetterhorn peak, wildlife
Saturday, June 30, 2012 At 14,309 feet, Uncompahgre Peak is the highest point in the San Juan Mountains and the 6th highest in Colorado. It was also our destination this morning. After work on Friday, Jackson and I loaded up my Jeep and headed south to the San Juan’s. We made a quick stop for [...]
Mount Garfield
Posted: October 17, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, MountaineeringTags: 2011, book cliffs, colorado, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, mount garfield, palisade, summit
Monday, October 17, 2011 Living in Grand Junction, I see Mount Garfield towering above the Grand Valley almost every day. Every now and then I think to myself that I should finally hike up to the summit, but since I usually seem to spend most of my time exploring Southern Utah, I always put it [...]
Mount Sneffels
Posted: August 6, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, MountaineeringTags: 14ers, 2011, blue lakes, blue lakes pass, colorado, gilpin peak, mount sneffels, mount sneffels wilderness, peak bagging, san juan mountains, uncompahgre national forest, yankee boy basin
Saturday, August 6, 2011 This morning I set out with my friend Jackson to climb my second 14er (after climbing Handies Peak last year). We got a very early start and drove to the upper trailhead in Yankee Boy Basin. Unfortunately, about halfway up, Jackson started not feeling so well and had to turn around. [...]
Laccolith Tour | Henry Mountains Revisited
Posted: September 6, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, MountaineeringTags: 2010, bull creek pass, bull mountain, cabin, camp, capitol reef, copper ridge, crescent creek, crescent creek canyon, hanksville, henry mountains, jeep, la sal mountains, laccolith tour, little egypt, mount ellen, sawmill basin, sawmill basin road, summit, utah, waterpocket fold, wickiup pass
Labor Day Weekend Sunday & Monday, September 5-6, 2010 This past Labor Day Weekend Amanda had to unfortunately work on Sunday and Monday, so I was on my own. I figured that I would head back to The Henry Mountains to complete some of the trails that were blocked by snow on our last trip, [...]
Handies Peak | My First 14er
Posted: July 11, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, Jeeping, MountaineeringTags: 14ers, 2010, american basin, animas forks, california pass, cinnamon pass, colorado, handies peak, hurricane pass, jeep, lake como, san juan mountains, silverton, sloan lake, summit
Sunday, July 11, 2010 One of the goals I set for myself this year was to hike a 14er. Yesterday morning two friends and I hopped into my Jeep and headed down to the San Juan Mountains to try Handies Peak. Handies Peak is 14,048 feet high and ranked 40th out of the 53 14ers [...]