One of my goals during this weekend away was to hike to the top of Hahn's Peak. It's not a particularly high mountain - elevation 10,839 feet - but it just looked appealing and I was certain the view would be spectacular from the top. Besides, we could start the hike right from our cabin's front door. It added about 4 miles to our hike so I think we hiked a total of 8.4 miles that day.
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| The view of Hahn's Peak from the base. |
We didn't stop at all on the way up, we wanted to get up quickly before other people. We took our time on the way down, photographing the views and flowers.
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| This is a panorama from the top. The recent fires, though not too close, caused a perpetual haze during our trip. You can really tell in these photos. The smoke also left both Mr X and I with irritated eyes, itchy throats and sneezy. |
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| On the top of this peak sits an old shack. The story is that it was used as a lookout in "the olden days" to spot forest fires. It had to be rebuilt several times because of lightening strike destruction. I can't imagine being that person, cowering in the corner during an electrical storm. Also, if the person spotted a fire, how did he/she get word out? Run down the mountain really quickly? |
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| The entire top cap of the mountain is just shale. Going down was worse than going up on this stuff. Slip-sliding rocks shifting all around each step. I was very happy to have my walking poles as they proved very useful on this stuff. |
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| Quintessential Colorado: Columbines overlooking endless mountains. |
2 comments:
you have walking poles! and real boots! you two are very mountainy.
Ok. If lighting strikes destroyed the little lookout, what happened to the people inside? If I saw lightening coming with a history like that, I'd be down the mountain, forget looking for fires. And up that high can you imagine how loud it would be? No thanks!
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