The Mountain Gods
It's just past 6am, the sky is clear blue, Pike's Peak has passed from its rosy dawn shade to a stoney orange color, not a trace of snow on it now. Pike's Peak is a 'fourteener' which is to say, one of the several Colorado Rockies mountains over 14,000 feet. It doesn't look that big from here, and in fact, with Colorado Springs being just over 6,000 feet altitude itself, from here, the Peak is only 8,000 feet higher than where I stand to gaze at it. Mount Rainier, which loomed over my horizon in... Sign in to see full entry.