My Life. One Click (and a few words) at a Time.: 40.6/52

Pike's Peak is a grand 14,115 feet above sea level. It's website says is one of America's favorite summits and stand about 8,000 feet higher than other mountains in the area. Where we're from (in Illinois) is 725 feet above sea level. That's a bit of a difference.

Today we drove up Pike's Peak. It's about a 19 mile drive, twisting and turning - mostly without guardrails. We got to drive up to about mile 13. The air gets thinner (for real, you get winded just walking a short distance) and your ears pop as you ascend and descend. The other thing we noticed here is the headaches. Like someone or something is squeezing your head or your helmet is too tight. LOL

It was snowing at the top of the mountain, so they closed the road beyond mile 13. Brian swears that with the Highlander's all-wheel drive and differential lock (whatever that is), we could have gone further, but okay, we'll follow the rules and turn around and head back down the mountain.

Since I had taken about 200 pictures at the zoo yesterday (I bet you couldn't tell that I took a lot of pictures at the zoo - LOL), I took some pictures off my memory card and loaded them onto the laptop. Guess who left the memory card IN THE LAPTOP when we left for the mountain. Ugh.

So all these pictures are taken with a iPhone. Not too bad really.

Isaac, Abbi, Brian, me, and Emma

Those little white speckles? That's snow. :)

The website indicated that you should allow about two hours to get up the mountain. I thought, wow, that's a long time. But then when you see the view (and how it changes in a short distance), I can see why. We pulled over to take pictures every few minutes. Ha!!

The views were amazing all around. Throw in a few cute kids and you might possibly have next year's Christmas card!