{"id":2612,"date":"2013-09-28T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2013-09-28T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T15:10:04","slug":"colorado-discoveries-13-mount-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/09\/colorado-discoveries-13-mount-evans.html","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Discoveries 13: Mount Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wish I had gotten a picture when I was further away, and this isn’t even the peak. The peak is just to the right of this, and we were probably at about 12,900′ here so you aren’t looking all that high up.<\/p><\/div>\n

Click here for a picture from Flickr user Kevin Bauman, which is a lovely view from Denver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mount Evans<\/a> is one of Colorado’s 50+ Fourteeners<\/a> and is one of the ones nearest to Denver. Mount Bierstadt is also nearby, and we could easily see it as we were ascending the mountain.<\/p>\n

Last weekend my old college roommate Megan came into town from New England for my birthday. I invited our friend Adam down from Denver to spend some time with us.\u00a0I had originally planned to drive Megan up Pike’s Peak via the auto road, but Adam had talked us into Mount Evans. He said the drive is much more scenic, and is free of charge. The Pike’s Peak road is a toll road.<\/p>\n

Adam drove our new Subaru for us and took Megan and me on a lovely scenic route west of the front range from Woodland Park, CO up to Evergreen, CO. The route took us along the Platte River which is a popular swimming and fishing spot during the warm season. We saw numerous trout fishermen in their waders.<\/p>\n