Pikes Peak

Last night I was dorking around on 14ers.com and found upwards of 40ish trail write ups for the northwest appraoch to Pikes Peak from the Crags area. I had 2 beers in me and I said to myself, self...none of these write ups were from riders. There were loads of hikers and some skiers but no one had ridden it. It seemed like a good idea at the time. So i crawled outta my warm bed and was at the trailhead at 8 a.m. sharp. This is pretty much what the trail looks like for the first mile:







I quickly got to treeline.