Sheila, Mystic and I had a great time this weekend hiking up to a pair of Sawatch Range 14ers, Mount Belford (14,197 ft) and Mount Oxford (14,153 ft.) Sheila gets bonus points because she was at sea level about a week ago AND is battling a roughed up knee; still she was able to do the hike in great style! While not a technical ascent, it IS a long day with close to 6,000 ft. of elevation gain because you have to get up Belford, traverse to Oxford then return BACK up Belford--meaning you do a good 4 or so miles of hiking about 13,500 ft. Mystic was great as always. We had a bit of a rough start in the morning when I almost knocked myself unconscious on the car door and then Sheila had the sign it box cover fall on her nose, but we persevered! And now for the cool stuff:
If you want to click here for the cool slide show, you can see our photos with some captions. But for the coolest view of all, click here for the geotagged map view! Switch the view from "map" in the upper right to "hybrid" and zoom in to the maximum level using the slider in the upper right hand side (closer to the "plus" is the best zoom). Then click on the thumbnail of choice on the photos to see where I took the picture! Geotagging is cool stuff and I think I'll upgrade my flickr account so I can add all kinds of cool images.
