

My Gear Evaluation
Real life has been taking away from my SOTA activities the last couple of months. Hopefully, starting this week I will be able to start...


W7A/CO-103 (Browns Peak)
Before I get into the hike and activation, I wanted to say, that while I was on the top, I got to see F-16s and A-10s dog fighting above...


W7A/CO-104 (Spire Peak)
For some reason I under-estimate the difficult hikes and over-estimate; this summit was no exception. As you can see from the pics, this...


W7A/CO-147 (Mexican Hat Mountain)
Ghost town trail is a well maintained dirt road that goes through what is left of the towns of Gleeson, Cortland and Pearce. These town...


W7A/CO-018 (Glenn Mtn.)
This was a longer hike than expected, but not bad (7.5 hours round trip). It had a couple of points where it was steep, but nothing too...
W7A/CO-143 (Government Benchmark)
This is the second time I did this summit, so no pics, nothing new to see. I didn't have time to do a new one, but I wanted to get out...


W7A/CO-037 (Black Diamond Peak)
I had some issues on my first attempt at this summit, so I took it personally that I get this activated as quickly after that debacle as...


W7A/CO-038 (7144)
The tentative plan for today was to try to do two summits: W7A/CO-038 and W7A/CO-045. The road to get to these summits was a 4WD road...


W7A/CO-035 (Mule Mountain)
This is the second time I have done this summit, nothing new to report. This is an easy summit, I wish we had more like this around, so...


W7A/CO-051 (Mercury Mountain)
This summit is east of Granite Peak (I show it in the pics) but unlike Granite Peak this summit was more pleasant to climb. It was about...
















