Failure

This is a view of Longs Peak's East Wall from the Highway. The clouds had almost lifted by the time I took this photo about 3 hours after I turned around at the Boulderfield. It wasn't worth the risk to wait. It looked like the summit cloud would be replaced by thunderstorms shortly as well. This was my first failed attempt at a fourteener. Ironically (or maybe logically) this would have been my 13th fourteener if you count the ones I have climbed in California. It does give me a reason to come back to Colorado though. I will conquer Long's Peak and Hahn's Peak someday.