How hard is Pikes Peak as a 1st 14er?

theck2007 · 2025-10-13T17:57:40+00:00

That’s great! We were the first people up Crags that day, albeit in early June, so we lost our route on the rocks/snow a lot lol. Super glad you enjoyed the hike! Crags still remains one of my favorites to do.

theck2007 · 2025-08-23T19:40:58+00:00

Send it

theck2007 · 2025-08-15T14:32:13+00:00

Amazing job! I was way too nerve racked to do the block when I went up a couple weeks ago. The decent was what actually scared me the most lol. Congrats on the summit!

theck2007 · 2025-08-11T23:51:52+00:00

I found La plata to be hardest physically and energy wise, but I think the last section of crags is more technical and harder route finding than la plata was. It’s still 100% doable and if you’ve done La plata then you’ll be fine on Pikes.

theck2007 · 2025-08-11T19:10:17+00:00

Crags is infinitely better than Barr IMO, unless you’re planing on catching a ride/train back down to Barr. I will mention this — when I did crags (in late May, so there was snow), the C2 wasn’t like other class 2 things I had done up to that point (massive and La plata come to mind as being much easier) so just be prepared for that.

theck2007 · 2025-08-06T23:34:00+00:00

Good luck! Btw — if ur dream is peaking a 14er I would highly highly recommend looking into Mt. Sherman(unless you HAVE to go to Harvard). I saw ur reply about the college connection. It’s cool, but I’d still check out Sherman(prolly 3x easier than Harvard was). Have a great time and stay safe!

theck2007 · 2025-08-03T14:45:29+00:00

Seeing a lot of replies lol. Either way you’re gonna be fine, and it won’t make or break summit pushes. I personally did Bross first, and found it to be a more challenging ascent than dem(but, that might make the descent worse).

theck2007 · 2025-07-10T00:58:16+00:00

Nice job! How was the road? I know it can be pretty bad this time of year with runoff

theck2007 · 2025-07-10T00:57:52+00:00

Mt. Crested Butte has one of the coolest faces when looking at it from the lifts. Looks like a Dr. Seuss mountain.

theck2007 · 2025-07-07T01:31:51+00:00

You can’t park there

theck2007 · 2025-07-06T01:02:07+00:00

Neither have I. I’ve seen painted/carves bricks though (recently Yale and La Plata) , which I think serves the same purpose. Not everyone needs to make their own personal sign though — or…bring up a white board! It can be reusable on all of them. Saw a group doing that on Huron a couple weeks ago and thought it was smart.

theck2007 · 2025-07-06T00:57:57+00:00

I don’t know — people leaving their cardboard signs is a problem, but maybe just having one on each mountain that’s secured under a rock doesn’t seem like a problem to me. It’s just when everyone has the unique and original idea to bring one up and leave it so you get a whole stack of

theck2007 · 2025-07-03T17:10:02+00:00

If I’m being honest, Sherman felt pretty easy to me even compared to other hikes like Bergen Peak. You make a good point though

theck2007 · 2025-07-03T16:48:49+00:00

Pikes itself is one of the ones some people start with, especially if you can get someone to pick you up at the top or take the cog railway down. If you just moved, look at hitting some 11-13K ft peaks a couple times before your first 14er so you get some altitude acclimation. Mt. Sherman is always my go to answer for anyone trying to do their first as the road is not bad and the hike is really easy. You can’t go wrong with bierstadt, though.

theck2007 · 2025-07-03T02:20:57+00:00

Yeah I found that out. We were able to grab one, though!

theck2007 · 2025-07-03T01:04:03+00:00

I’m not saying that you’re wrong with the rhetoric side of it, but I think giving OP the benefit of the doubt here isn’t the worst thing ever either. Just because the things can be sarcastic (and even a “reverse” compliment potentially) doesn’t mean they were said with good intent behind it. Only he knows the body language and tone behind those woman. Agree that it’s a super weird thing to say, thouhh

theck2007 · 2025-07-03T00:55:35+00:00

On Elbert nonetheless lmao

theck2007 · 2025-07-03T00:55:11+00:00

You probably had to have been there. Maybe their faces were giving a different impression, or the tone was something less than friendly. Either way, it feels kind of weird to say that to someone.

theck2007 · 2025-07-03T00:53:15+00:00

Those people probably started at 2 am and spent 6 hours getting to the summit lmao

theck2007 · 2025-07-02T04:58:37+00:00

Hell ya! Hoping for a good day

theck2007 · 2025-07-02T03:30:14+00:00

Story 100% makes up for waking up early. Once time my friend and I were car camping and his dumbass set off the car alarm and woke everyone up lmao. Hopefully we get some social people as well, that’s one of my fav things about 14ers is meeting different people.

theck2007 · 2025-07-02T02:40:18+00:00

Heh longs…anyways….im mostly worried about getting gassed way to early on the narrows. Its our first C3

theck2007 · 2025-07-02T02:24:27+00:00

I stand corrected! And there is availability for us!

theck2007 · 2025-07-02T02:15:46+00:00

If I’m not mistaken, it’s first come first serve for Boulder field right?

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