Mt Bierstadt August 10th, 2008

We attempted to climb Mt Bierstadt. This is one of the many 14ers in Colorado. Joey did several last year and I was going to try to attempt to do an "easy" one. We met up with Jimmy & Becky(and Cali) down in town, then made the drive up Guanella pass to the trail head. It was way cloudy on the drive up, but we thought maybe it might just be cloudy ... no rain clouds. It really was a pretty hike/walk. Jimmy and Becky are in great shape and were able to make it to the top. They said it was flurrying snow (in AUGUST). I held Joey back, so we only made it a little over half way - (a little over 12000 feet). It was tough on me. It started drizzling pretty bad on us & the rain clouds were moving in quick. We turned around and we were soaking wet by the time we got to our car.

Then on the way back down Guanella Pass we stopped at a little lake and Joey took some pictures...