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I am actually writing this entry AFTER I climbed Mt. Shavano. You see, I came up with the idea for this website while I was about half way up the mountain. My wife was dead tired and I started rambling on about this website and all of the great information that I could provide…she had no interest of course. The rest of this post will be in the present tense; we all no better of course. 
We have been in Salida, Colorado for about 10 days now and I haven’t done a lick of work. This was supposed to have been a “working vacation” but there are way to many distractions and I am having too much fun. We have been hiking assorted trails just about every day (sometimes twice a day if we can talk the kids into it) including parts of the Colorado Trail, Waterdog Lakes and Agnes Vaille Falls (a great short hike for kids) close to Mt. Princeton.
Agnes Vaille Falls (much cooler in person) and family
Since we arrived in Colorado, I have been fascinated with all of the 14ers around us and there are a ton in the area, including Mt. Antero, Mt. Princeton, Mt. Yale, Mt. Columbia, Mt. Harvard, Mt. Tabeguache and of course Mt. Shavano. Within a couple of hours drive there are over 20 different 14ers. Very cool! I have been doing a lot of reading, including Gerry Roach’s fabulous book Colorado’s Fourteeners and have decided to try climbing Mt. Shavano and possibly Mt. Tabeguache if time and energy permit. Tomorrow is the big day and I am very excited. Although our rental home is only about 5 minutes from the Angel of Shavano trailhead I have decided to not climb from this point, as the climb seems to be more difficult and possibly through snow. We will instead start from the Blank Gulch Trailhead, which will take us about 30 minutes to get to. The plan is to get up at 5AM and try to start our hike by 6AM. It is about Midnight by the time I finish reading and it is time to go to bed.
Click Mt. Shavano - My first 14er! to read about my climb and see pictures.
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