Two days after summiting Longs I decided it was a good idea to hit up two more 14ers with a few friends. Shanon was supposed to come as well as a few others but due to a death in her family she was back in IL for the weekend. While the kids were in IL we were going to climb these 14ers, we decided to go anyway. Mary, Sam, Merideth, and myself, we headed up early in the AM and drove to the trailhead, we ended up starting at about 6 AM. This was a popular hike especially on a Saturday, there were already a bunch of cars. We headed out and took the first left intersection I thought was heading to Torrys, well it was but it was a class 3 route. It was not going to happen for all those in our party, so we headed back to the normal route up to Torrys, by cutting through a rock field. Once on the main trail again it was easy hiking up to Torrys, just crowded since we took a wrong turn. We ate lunch on the summit if Torrys with great weather.
After lunch was a short hike down a bit to the ridge to the trail up to Grays. We made it up to the top of Grays quickly and enjoyed some time on top.
The total hike was just over 8 miles, not too bad for bagging 2 14ers in one day and the weather was gorgeous the entire day. After the hike we headed down to Boulder to enjoy a few beers for Merideth's birthday hike to 2 14ers. A great day was had by all.
All pictures can be found here -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13519781@N02/sets/72157635030165444/
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