The tallest peak in this photo is Pikes Peak, named for the explorer who doubted the mountain could be climbed. If only he could see that people now compete in races on foot to the summit every year. It is amazing to me that at the base of this mountain lies my home-town, where half a million people live and work and play in one of the sunniest regions in our great nation.
Along with our Pikes Peak, the easternmost 14-er of the Rocky Mountains, Zebulon Pike has a local juvenile correction facility named after him, along with the local national forest, and multiple towns scattered about the mid-western United States from Kansas to Pennsylvania. Most people don't know who Zeb Pike was, but his name lives on in the places he explored and mapped in the earliest years after the Louisiana Purchase.
What a gorgeous photograph.
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