mountain village of Estes Park, Colorado. Estes Park

borders Rocky Mountain National Park and it was my summer

retreat. Never in my life had I seen someplace taken

directly out of a fairy tale. The mountains swallowed the

town. One particular mountain immediately caught my eye.

I knew that it had to be the tallest, for it was the only

mountain that was still covered in May snow.

I later learned that the enormous mountain was

Longs Peak. Longs Peak happened to be a "fourteener", a

Colorado mountain over fourteen thousand feet. The mountain

could be seen from every corner of the park as well as from

distant cities such as Denver or Boulder, which were well

over fifty miles away. The mountain held an intense

mystification for me. It reminded me of a Cardinals game,

which I saw prior to my visit to Estes Park. Mark McGuire

was coming up to bat, and shocks rippled down my spine

when I saw him. An atomic power radiated from him. Even

though there were several other players on the field I

simply could not keep my eyes off him. Longs Peak also

stood head and shoulders over the other players.

I had to climb Longs Peak before I left Estes

wind across my face, yet at that moment everything in my

over four thousand feet. The climb takes over two days of

magnitude made me almost ashamed of having nothing in my

the mountain, and the heavy wind whistling through the

and I knew that it would only get colder as we gained

eight miles long. It has a very steep elevation gain of

precious time trying to recover the trail.

the slumbering cities below. I felt the omnipresence of God

Longs Peak is an extremely difficult and technical climb.

sunrise. Stars once bright began to drown in a deep blue

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