Pikes Peak

He was out of the hospital in a few days and was fit enough to run the Pikes Peak marathon four months later.

He started his trek on July 14 at the base of the Barr Trail, which links Manitou Springs with the summit of Pikes Peak.

Because riding up one fourteener wasn’t enough, he pedaled up Pikes Peak, too.

An epic panorama of pristine alpine landscape stretched in almost every direction, with Pikes Peak standing off to the south and Mount Evan towering just to the west.

It now seems that the Defense Department can project American power of a sort into the Hindu Kush but not Pikes Peak.

Far to the north, standing aloof from the range, loomed up the grand black bulk and noble white dome of Pikes Peak.

Eighty miles to the northwest the forest and granite clad form of Pikes Peak towered in majesty.

In the grand caves at Pikes Peak there is an "organ," which is really no organ at all.

A glance proved that our little salutarian was the brown-capped rosy finch, which I had not seen since my ascent of Pikes Peak.

Now-a-days, however, hundreds of travelers go every year to the top of Pikes Peak.