Mt Sherman from Iowa Gulch
Left from Iowa Gulch there was some snow and ice on the trail, wind kicked in once you reached the saddle.
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3rd 14er!
Day 1/ Hike 2 of 2 Back to back after Mt. Yale! Very cool trail with train station rails and mines. Short & sweet but…
Good Day on Mount Sherman
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…
Solo hike – Mr. Sherman
First solo 14er! Some areas with snow/ice, but can be avoided with alternate route.
First 14er!
Fun hike, first 14er! The beer at the top certainly hit me harder than I would have expected 🙂 Trail was a bit busy but…
Last but not least
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…
Mt Sherman final 6 pack hike
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…
Mt Sherman
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…
Mount Sherman via Horseshoe Mountain
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…
Windy scary day
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…
From Sherman with Love
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…
Head in the clouds
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…
2019 Hike-a-versary
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…
2019 Hike-a-versary
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…
DAY FIVE – HIKE FIVE
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…
Mount Sherman
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…
Mount Sherman
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…
Mt. Sherman
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…
Sunrise on Mt. Sherman
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…
SummitPost3
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,…
Six Pack Completed
I had been saving this peak for some friends visiting from Missouri; give them a chance to do a 14er. Ended up taking them 4…
The Summit is Worth the Struggle
While I intended to do the peaks in order, a major wrong-turn in the Collegiate Wilderness thwarted my ascent of Birthday Peak. Not wanting to…
Mt. Sherman, The “easy” 14er
New 14er to add to the books. They say it’s the easiest but no 14er is easy. Great road trail most of the way up.…