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Thursday after school Chloe and I left for a father-daughter camping adventure. With it being so late in the season, many of the roads to reach many of the trailheads were closed, or too far to make it before dusk. For this reason our destination on this trip was Mt. Bierstadt We made through Guanella pass early enough to stop and admire the view before heading on to find a place to pitch camp. Over the pass and down into the valley we found some great disbursed camping spots and decided on one. Being so late in the year we saw nobody during the evening, and only heard a few automobiles pass through the area. We spent the evening enjoying some backpacking instant food and coco around the fire. Another event of note is that Chloe lost another tooth, and seemed quite relieved to have it gone. As the stars came out we both headed to the tent for some rest. Chloe was fine, but I froze over the night. I had only packed my 40 degree sleeping bag and quite honestly was not prepared for the temperature to drop below the freezing point. Lesson learned, and I should know better anyway.

Early the next morning we rose, quickly packed up camp and headed back up to the pass. This Mountain is the first real 14er that we have attempted to summit so we were quite unsure of how it would be like. It was cold, but not windy when we stared out about 7am. As we gained elevation the thinner air became quite apparent, but we headed on. Chloe did a fantastic job of keeping up, and led the way most of the way up. By mid morning the sun was finally over the summit so we were in sunlight, but the wind had picked up quite a bit. It became apparent that we were not going to make it to the top, but we pushed on for a bit more and ended up turning around 13k feet we made the decision to turn back. Perhaps next year we will make it to the summit, but for now we will just have to look forward to the next attempt. We took a few photos. photos