Had an awesome run up the Mt. Evans road on Sunday morning. Started at the entrance station at 10, 750 feet and covered about 14.5 miles up to the parking lot at 14,130 feet. The road wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, nowhere near as hard as running up Barr Trail. The weather got real shitty above Summit Lake though, with the wind chill dropping the temps well below zero. Maybe I shoulda brought along some gloves? Didn't want to pound my legs on the road all the way back down, so I hitched a ride from the Summit Lake parking lot. Took me just under 2:45 to get up, Then 1:15 back to Summit Lake (which included quite a bit of time goofing off at the top). Spent another hour or so at the coffee house just above 10,500 feet. All-in-all I spent a good six hours above 10,000 feet on Sunday.
Kudos to Katie and BLOS, who made the eleven mile round trip from Summit Lake to the top and back. Here's some of the pics Katie took:
