| I planned to get an early start as I had an entry time at Pikes Peak for 8:00 a.m. The night before I realize I forgot to pack an iPad charging cable so I stopped at a local Target on the way out of town. |
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| I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere because I ended up at the North Pole. |
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| It is actually a little amusement park. There was free admission that day for some reason but it was not open yet and I wasn't all that interested anyway. |
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| Here's some nightmare fuel for you. |
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| Trees and rocks, rocks and trees. Colorado is lousy with them. |
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| The sign only references a creature "resembling" Big Foot, not actual Big Foot. For all we know, it could just be Marv. |
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| A postcard photo of a nice little lake and Pikes Peak in the distance. |
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| It's not a visitor center or a lodge. It's a gift shop and small cafe. |
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| The first look at snow. It's June. |
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| The road goes all the way to the top, but as it was early there was ice that was being cleared beyond this point. Therefore I was unable to get to the summit. I couldn't really wait for them to eventually open up the rest of the road. |
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 So the farthest I got was Devil's Playground and 16-Mile Turnout, elevation 12,780 feet. That's almost two and a half miles up. Yeah, the air was quite thin up here as well. |
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| There may have been a reason I took this photo. For the life of me, I don't know what it was. |
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| People can keep their beach holidays where they sit on the beach and drink beer. Give me scenery like this. |
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