Mountain Goat Mt. Evans Colorado                              Click to enlarge

Is that Spring? From up here on the top of Mt. Evans at 14,000′ you can see for nearly a month in a straight line and it looks like way out there, just past a week or two, there might be some Spring. If you stand real still and look hard just past that snow squall you can see the tip of it.

That would be good if it is. I have to use this picture from early spring which was July that year because they, the people who run this place and have the keys to the gate, won’t even let you up here until Memorial day which is May 26th this year and then you are probably going to get snowed on, big time. There isn’t much that is more memorable than standing in a brisk 45-50 mph wind in a spring snowstorm at 14,000′.

I heard once that for every 1000′ in elevation you go it is the same as traveling 300 miles north. I don’t know if that is true or not but if it is, then standing on the top of Mt Evans at 14,000′ puts you close to 479 miles past the North Pole. The North pole being approximately 3721 miles from Denver, give or take a mile or two. I didn’t even know you could go past the north pole in terms of cold. Maybe you have to go straight up those last 479 miles to get colder. But at this point I think cold is cold, right? I mean how much more are you going to freeze your keester off 479 miles in space than you would at the North pole. A frozen keester is a frozen keester. But if you’re one of those that are always looking for the ultimate experience then State Highway 5 will get you there.

But then we were looking for Spring not a way to freeze your keester off, so I recommend waiting just a little while longer and there is every chance that Spring will come to you. No traveling, no climbing mountains, no freezing one’s keester off. Just wait a bit then go outside. It should be Spring. Enjoy it.