A Spanish Peaks Climb Photo Gallery by Larry Hill at pbase.com

A Spanish Peaks Climb

This gallery records a climb up the West Spanish Peak trail to the top. The West Peak, at over 13,000 feet, lords over the surrounding mountains and the eastern plains. The trek took seven hours, most of that being the climb up the peak itself. It is not technically difficult. For older people my age it is arduous, but spry young folk (and their pets) race up that mountain all the time.

This climb was taken in late September, 2004. Winter closed in as I retreated down the trail.

1140 - Entered Spanish Peaks Wilderness	The Lower Trail	National Landmark	Dike Contact
Fall	1154 - Looking Back on Mt. Maestes	1310 - Reached the High Grove	1310 - Sunny Flanks
1320 - Cairn	Treeline	Working Down	1323 - Distant Peaks
1340 - Picture Sandstone	1353 - Sangre Crest	Cordova Pass Road	1356 - Pediment
Over the Shoulder	1400 - Foreboding	1409 - Impasto Cliffs	1515 - Shelter
1600 - Final Climb	1600 - Top	The Great Wall	1609 Dikes Below
1610 - Dike Swarm	1612 - Cirque	A Peek Over the Cirque's Rim	Mt. Maestes
1614 - North to Pueblo	1615 Cirque and Dikes	1657 - Snow	Soaring
1715 - Distant Castles	1720 Water!	1748 - Evening Path	1806 - Late Sun
1806 - Last look	1820 - Showin Off	1823 - Trail Upslope	1832 - Last Light