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This is a quick and dirty cut and paste of my drive two years ago...planning to drive the 19-mile highway up Pikes Saturday and run the marathon Sunday.




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About 7,000 feet at the start of the 19-mile drive up.
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Already 9,000 feet up.
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About 10,000 feet - pavement ends.
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The halfway point where they check brakes for people driving down.

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About 12,000 feet - clearly above the timberline.
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Less than two miles from the summit.
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View from the top, cog railway...

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The cog train at the summit of Pikes Peak
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At the summit of Pikes Peak, I panned the camera - taking pictures as I turned....
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Next pictures are a plaque for Katherine Lee Bates - author of America The Beautiful
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Still at the summit. I felt slightly lightheaded at 14,110 feet.

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Serious picture. This is before the run.



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Driving down Pikes Peak....
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Whose priuses are those?
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Whose priuses are those?
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I noticed them too.

I recall one of them was from Arkansas

:) those views of the mountains ...good memories . "You can take the boy out of the mountains , but you can't take the mountains out of the boy."

I leave work at 4:30.....sleep til midnight, drive to Denver....see Mr. Kite....attempt to hypermile Pikes in my Insight....run it on foot Sun....leave for home at midnight

The weekend after that I hope have MIMA installed.

Do I have too much time on my hands or what? :D

P.S. Guess what I'll wear on the summit of Pikes Peak?

I leave work at 4:30.....sleep til midnight, drive to Denver....see Mr. Kite....attempt to hypermile Pikes in my Insight....run it on foot Sun....leave for home at midnight

The weekend after that I hope have MIMA installed.

Do I have too much time on my hands or what? :D

P.S. Guess what I'll wear on the summit of Pikes Peak?

A Nascar jacket and a Hummer hat ? ;)

:) those views of the mountains ...good memories . "You can take the boy out of the mountains , but you can't take the mountains out of the boy."

Amen! Though I'm from the much older Appalachians. ;)

Amen! Though I'm from the much older Appalachians. ;)


A quote from Colorado native " ...you moved *Here*? Minnesota is Sooooo Flat and Green !! Why the Rockies ?" Hahahaha

A Nascar jacket and a Hummer hat ? ;)

Actually it will be more appropiate....although the Hummer cap is light enough to bring... ;)

A quote from Colorado native " ...you moved *Here*? Minnesota is Sooooo Flat and Green !! Why the Rockies ?" Hahahaha

That may be (and YES I miss them!!) but I met my future wife 8 years ago and she's from here. I moved here a year later... and we got married last April. I love the mountains but I love my wife more!!!! :o

Correction: www.pikespeakmarathon.org