Tag: Mount Sherman

Left from Iowa Gulch there was some snow and ice on the trail, wind kicked in once you reached the saddle.

Day 1/ Hike 2 of 2 Back to back after Mt. Yale! Very cool trail with train station rails and mines. Short & sweet but…

A great fourteener to start with, Sherman is an easier one because you start at 12k feet above tree line. The knife’s edge section right…

First solo 14er! Some areas with snow/ice, but can be avoided with alternate route.

Fun hike, first 14er! The beer at the top certainly hit me harder than I would have expected 🙂 Trail was a bit busy but…

This was the last peak on the challenge for me and was more tiring than I expected. Other than a short walk through a field…

It was epic day for my final 6-pack prak, Mt Sherman.  At the very end  of the hike, literaly right b4 getting back to the…

Chilly day for hiking! More abandoned mining by the trail. Can’t say it’s easy 14ers but it’s shortest 14ers in CO. Met other sixpackofpeaks participants…

So, I hope this hike counts since I took a slightly different route to summit. On this day, I went for the summits of both…

We took the trail to the right which leads you over a steep climb over loose rocks. The rest of the trail is fairly easy…

As promised, my wife hiked this one with me.  It was so great to have her along and it was her first CO 14er!  Congratulations…

We had a wild day on the mountain today. This was actually the second time I tried to do this mountain. The first time we…

Sherman was a lot busier than Horseshoe, but that’s to be expected with a 14er. Still surprised by how many people didn’t know it was…

We began this hike in headlamps and had many happy hikers follow our lead in the dark morning time.  This summit felt like we were…

A few more people on this hike, being that it’s a 14er. Also a lot more wind! Glad NE taught us to be prepared for…

This was one of the easiest 14’ers I have climbed. There were even some trail runners that utilize this trail too. There was a snow…

We were the first to the trailhead, however, not the first to start hiking. We were up in no time at all, not necessarily easy…

Started at 5:45am. Hike up past the gate was steep as it starts right at 12k ft. But incline was not too bad as I…

Set out at 3 a.m. from just behind the gate, and there were about 8-9 others on the trail. Mining roads crisscrossing the trail makes…

The snowstorm we got last week is still very much a part of Mt Sherman. Winds were insanely high, some snow up to my knee,…