Liam Keane » backpacking http://www.liamkeane.com a curious explorer of this omnicentric universe Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:58:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Peak Two http://www.liamkeane.com/2006/01/peak-two/ http://www.liamkeane.com/2006/01/peak-two/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:17:36 +0000 Liam Keane http://www.liamkeane.com/2006/01/29/peak-two/ Carlyle has a well-written essay about our summer backpacking trip to Colorado over on his blog. He talks about personal satisfaction found in mountaineering through an anecdote of the ten-hour trek on Peak Two (elevation: 13,475 ft.).
Peak Two ascent

We were literally 200 meters into our hike and already there were a few stragglers. One scout was losing gear off his pack, one was without a headlamp, and a few were already tired. Boy Scout Troop 41 was up at 3:45am, and hiking by 4. We were in the Colorado Rockies, two years since our last venture into the San Juan Range and our early departure was due to the unreliable behavior of summer weather in the Rockies…
Continue reading Carlyle’s post

Ahh, brings back great memories. That was an extremely fun trip. If you’re curious, you can check out some photos (taken by Carlyle Eubank Sr.) on flickr here and here.

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