After completing my climb of Mount of the Holy Cross last fall, I noted that I’d climbed all 15 of the Sawatch 14ers, putting my total number of 14ers climbed at 26. A milestone, of sorts.
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Sangre de Cristos
Postcard from Colorado
A couple of weeks ago, while the high mountains were in less than ideal condition for skiing and the local trails were too soupy from snowmelt for mountain biking, I headed up into the network of gravel roads in the Arkansas Hills for some random exploring.
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Most of our mountain climbing to this point has been in our local range, the Sawatch, or near Fairplay in the Mosquitoes. Looking for a change of scenery I wanted to try something in the Sangre de Cristos south of Salida. The problem is, most of the Sangre peaks are above my pay grade in terms of climbability.
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